Although given a winner in his constituency, Olivier Véran has no illusions.
"The warning" to the presidential majority, neck and neck with the Union of the Left (Nupes) at the end of the first round of legislative elections, has "been heard", assured the Minister of Relations with Parliament on LCI.
“We hear the silence of the ballot boxes, we hear the noise of the street, we also hear the many French people who have placed their trust in us,” he added.
The former health minister was not the only member of the government to draw these conclusions.
Invited on France 2, Gérald Darmanin estimated for his part that it was necessary “to be attentive in humility and in proximity”.
"There is a desire for voters to challenge us, to ask us questions and not to give us a blank check", judged the Minister of the Interior given the winner in his constituency, saying he was certain in the second. turn of a victory of the candidates of the presidential majority.
“We will be in the overwhelming majority of constituencies”
According to the first projections of polling institutes published on Sunday after the first round, the macronist coalition Together!
would obtain the most seats in the National Assembly at the end of the legislative elections, but without certainty of obtaining an absolute majority of 289 seats.
It would be ahead of the left-wing Nupes alliance, while Les Républicains would be the third force in the National Assembly and the National Rally would get between 10 and 45 deputies.
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“We will be in the overwhelming majority of constituencies present in the second round, in my department of Isère it will be 9 out of 10”, underlined Olivier Véran.
As for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France insoumise (LFI) and Nupes, he “is not the left”, he is “extreme left”, he estimated.
“Is he dangerous?
Yes Jean-Luc Mélenchon, his program is dangerous”, he continued, believing that “it is not because he rallied part of the PS and environmentalists that he softened” .
“We absolutely must in our country keep a parliament within the republican arc,” concluded Olivier Véran, echoing the remarks made a little earlier in the evening by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne.
"In the face of extremes, we will not yield anything", she declared, referring to an "unprecedented confusion between extremes", "as had never happened in the political history of our country".
