Learn from failure.
This is what the French expect from the President of the Republic, who did not obtain an absolute majority (289 seats) in the National Assembly this Sunday.
Questioned as part of an Odoxa Backbone Consulting study for
Le Figaro
, 83% of French people believe that Emmanuel Macron emerges weakened from these elections and 76% believe that he will be prevented from implementing his program.
Worse still, 70% of respondents say that the Head of State himself bears the responsibility for this political situation.
Even among supporters of the presidential party, 40% of respondents attribute this failure to Emmanuel Macron.
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This disappointment also leads voters to want a change in Matignon.
Although it is a prerogative of the president, the practice obliges to choose a prime minister with the support of the parliamentary majority.
After the disappointing results of the presidential coalition, the French are 57% to no longer want Élisabeth Borne in Matignon.
A more marked wish among supporters of the National Rally (75%), Reconquest (66%) and La France Insoumise (64%).
Only supporters of LREM (32%) and Republicans (40%) would prefer it to remain in place.
Elisabeth Borne, second female prime minister under the Fifth Republic, has only been in office since May 16, 2022.
But the failure of the presidential coalition (LREM, MoDem and Horizons won only 248 seats in total) came as no surprise to voters.
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A fact rare enough to underline, the French are therefore mostly optimistic, satisfied that their hope expressed before the election - that the executive be deprived of an absolute majority - has finally come true.
», emphasizes Céline Bracq, general manager of Odoxa.
Emmanuel Macron having won a second time against Marine Le Pen, many voters chose to elect him not by membership, but to block the RN.
Consequently, the French are 64% to find that the absence of an absolute majority in the National Assembly is a good thing, because it gives a real role to Parliament, by obliging the government to compromise with the deputies to adopt the laws.
The RN winning the legislative elections
If 53% of French people say they are satisfied with this result, “
this majority is measured
”, tempers Céline Bracq, because no coalition has managed to win more than 50% of the seats.
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The most disappointed are LREM supporters (72% dissatisfied) who were aiming for this absolute majority, followed by Reconquest supporters (59%) whose more modest objective of entering the Assembly failed.
On the other hand, RN voters are the most satisfied (69%), because the party obtained an unexpected number of seats in the Bourbon Palace (89 deputies, against only 8 in 2017).
A large majority of French people (80%) agree that the RN is the big winner of these elections.
Only 55% consider that it is the Nupes which won this election, with 131 seats, distributed between the Insoumis (72), the Socialists (24), the Ecologists (23) and the Communists (12).
The coalition for the presidential majority is considered to be the loser by 77% of French respondents, almost as many as the Republicans and the UDI (81%), who saw their number of deputies drop from 100 to 64. However, 57% of French people want LR and the UDI to remain in opposition and vote on laws on a case-by-case basis.
(This study was carried out on a sample of 1005 French people representative of the French population aged 18 and over, interviewed by internet on June 22 and 23, 2022.)