Jean-Luc Mélenchon will not be Prime Minister but the left becomes the first opposition: it wins 131 seats on Sunday in the second round of legislative elections, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior.
A score nevertheless below his expectations, but which prevents President Emmanuel Macron from obtaining an absolute majority.
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stuck between the Nupes and the RN
On the evening of the first round of the legislative elections, the Nupes, a coalition of left-wing parties had made equal play with the presidential majority united under the banner Together!.
The two lists had arrived at almost equal, with a little more than 21,000 votes in advance only for Together!.
A warning shot for the Macronist alliance which turned into a serious setback on the evening of the second round.
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LFI winner of the union of the left
On the left, the Insoumis are the winners of the union.
LFI, which presented the most candidates by virtue of its third place in the presidential election, won 75 seats.
Such a result represents a huge gain compared to 2017, when the rebels only won in 17 constituencies, allowing LFI to have a parliamentary group.
Several important links in the Nupes enter the National Assembly: several relatives of Jean-Luc Mélenchon such as Manuel Bompard who succeeds him in Marseille, Raquel Garrido, Clémence Guetté, Danielle Simonnet, the leader of the struggle of chambermaids at the Ibis Batignolles Rachel Kéké, green figures like Julien Bayou and Sandrine Rousseau, socialists like Jérôme Guedj and Anne Pic, or the communist Soumya Bourouaha.
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The greens are aiming for a return to the Hemicycle
Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV) and the various parties of the environmental pole constituted the second force of the Nupes, with 81 candidates invested after the agreement concluded at the beginning of May with Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The formation of Julien Bayou collects 16 seats and could therefore obtain, on the wire, a parliamentary group.
A revenge on 2017 where no green deputy had been elected.
Julien Bayou, the head of EELV, paid tribute to LFI: “
You can applaud them because it is obviously the Insoumis, in the first place, who made this coalition possible
”.
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Socialists limit breakage
The situation is far from being so comfortable for the PS.
As part of the agreement with Nupes, 67 constituencies had been reserved for the Socialists.
After the first round, they are 54 to seek victory.
The PS allied with Nupes won 27 seats.
From 2017 to 2022, he had a group of 28 parliamentarians and 45 seats by allying himself with the radical leftists.
Despite everything, the socialists allied to the Nupes are limiting the damage, unlike the dissidents of the PS who were swept away on Sunday in the first round of the legislative elections despite the support of the elephants of the party, strengthening the position of the first secretary Olivier Faure, who made the bet of the left-wing alliance with LFI.
The PCF lagging behind
The PCF, which presented 49 candidates as part of the Nupes, won the seat in only 12 constituencies.
What raises the question: will the Communists be able to obtain a parliamentary group at the Palais Bourbon?
If they did not reach the 15 deputies necessary for the constitution of a parliamentary group, the Communists could try to rally to them elected officials from overseas, as during the previous legislature.