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Emmanuel Macron seems on track to obtain a narrow majority next Sunday.
We already know that she will be dependent on the goodwill of her allies Édouard Philippe and François Bayrou, who could complicate her task.
What we do not know is whether it will be absolute or relative.
It is obviously not the same thing: in the second hypothesis, the Head of State, for each piece of legislation, would be forced either to beg for a few additional votes on the right or on the left, or to use the weapon ( politically costly and constitutionally limited) of 49-3.
A disaster for the future: this badly born five-year term already seemed to be threatened by “chiraquisation”;
it is hard to see how the least reforming impulse could come from an Assembly deprived of a real majority.
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Either way, it's a serious setback for the president.
By trying to chloroform the whole campaign, by tactical calculation or strategic hesitation, he will only have succeeded in feeding abstention and stifling…
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