You will have to compose.
On the evening of the second round of the legislative elections, the President of the Republic did not find the
“solid”
majority at the ballot box that he was calling for.
Worse, the Macronist troops even come very far from the bar of the 289 deputies necessary to pass laws since, according to the estimates available at 9 p.m., Together!
would have only 230 to 240 deputies.
A disavowal for the Head of State, now forced to find allies, and therefore to make compromises, in order to be able to apply a program already rendered obsolete by the new balance of power within the National Assembly .
“An unprecedented situation”
which
“constitutes a risk for our country”,
commented the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, in the evening.
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“This does not allow a clear majority,
we observed within the executive, Sunday evening.
This is a disappointing element but no other majority emerges.
The legislative elections do not renew either the presidential election or the mandate entrusted to the president on his program.
Except that, to apply it, the situation has now changed.
What the president did not seem to have quite integrated on Sunday evening.
"He is determined to act, strong in the mandate given to him by the French and serene with the desire to move forward for the country",
assured those around him after a meeting at the Élysée with Élisabeth Borne, Édouard Philippe, François Bayrou, Stanislas Guerini and Clement Beaune.
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Already, all eyes are on the right, which, with 62 to 68 elected, can play the auxiliary forces.
But at what cost?
All last week, the heavyweights of LR have raised the stakes, delighted to find themselves at the center of the game. Essential for Emmanuel Macron, who, throughout the evening, saw his faithful chain the sanctions at the ballot box.
The President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, the former Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner… The only consolation for the President of the Republic, his Prime Minister has been re-elected.
What allow him to temporize the time to measure the extent of the sanction against him.
She is strong.
From Sunday evening, the idea of a change of prime minister was raised by figures of LR.
National discord
If the slap is severe for Emmanuel Macron, the victory is half-hearted for Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
His result appears well below his thundering campaign, with 165 to 175 deputies.
What weigh in the National Assembly however since the leader Insoumis and his Nupes seize the title of first opposition group.
He can therefore claim the presidency of the finance commission for his troops, but not Matignon for him.
Admittedly, the hypothesis was improbable.
But it sheds a negative light on the performance of the Nupes.
Especially since at the same time the National Rally of Marine Le Pen achieves an unprecedented performance by bringing, still according to the estimates available at 8:30 p.m., between 80 and 85 deputies in the Hemicycle.
Never seen.
The new face of the National Assembly.
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In 1986, the FN had 35 deputies elected to the National Assembly.
And again, the proportional voting system that was then in place had favored it.
This time, it is with a majority vote in two rounds that he settles.
If Marine Le Pen failed to break through the glass ceiling in the presidential election, the RN candidates did it for her in the National Assembly.
In the end, the RN has more elected deputies than La France insoumise alone.
What to claim the role of first opposition group if the Nupes does not manage to agree.
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These legislative elections mark the end of an interminable electoral sequence from which voters ended up turning away.
With an abstention of 54%, the second round marks a new record.
And adds to the democratic crisis that runs through the country.
To answer this, Emmanuel Macron launched the National Council for Refoundation on Wednesday from the Élysée Palace.
"
There is a fatigue of the French vis-à-vis postures and sterile debates, hence the new method
, explains a strategist of the majority.
The chair will give a sharp coloring
.
We must create unity where there is division.
Even if we had an overwhelming majority, it would have to be done to get everyone involved in the debate and go beyond the worn-out choreography of social conferences.
For the Head of State, it is a question of regaining control after the hesitation of recent weeks.
But will he have sufficient political authority to launch such a project?
And gather behind him?
Judging by the first comments of the representatives of the political parties, Sunday evening, the time is not for union, rather for national discord.
