It is curious, among macronists, this need to play with the date of the elections.
The idea of dissolving the National Assembly the day after the presidential election is indeed not a fad on the eve of the ballot.
Already four months ago, the daily newspaper
L'Opinion
had revealed this incredible scenario consisting in making a constitutional weapon of last resort a tool for simply adjusting the calendar of action.
We remember that, on the pretext of the Covid crisis, the Head of State had also considered postponing the regional elections after the presidential election.
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In both cases, the calculation was the same: to give oneself better electoral chances.
For the regional ones, it was a question of not letting the presidents in place, all LR or PS, benefit from the health crisis – at the time, the macronists were annoyed that an exceptional situation played into the hands of the outgoing ... For the legislative elections, this time it would be a question of not letting the breath of a presidential victory fall and...
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