Lost bet: Emmanuel Macron has produced, in his practice of discarding and “at the same time”, an apparent political cockroach at the heart of the Assembly;
a heterogeneous assembly of formations and parties that will force the elites to leave their navel-gazing.
Re-elected on April 24 after stirring up the fear of populism, the head of state finds himself face to face, at the end of the second round of legislative elections, with the outcasts he had driven out.
His five-year term, which he hoped to continue in a hyper-presidency and an almost monopolistic party, is stopped dead by the awakening of the sleepwalkers.
It is not Jean-Luc Mélenchon's Nupes which creates the surprise, even if the addition of carp and rabbits (which are already scattered) can claim 131 deputies.
The winner is the party of Marine Le Pen.
It was he whom the voters chose to promote to the Assembly.
With 89 deputies, the RN is the leading opposition party.
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