At the end of the 2022 electoral cycle, France finds itself in an unprecedented situation since the birth of the Fifth Republic.
Emmanuel Macron was re-elected on April 24 not on a project but on the rejection of Marine Le Pen.
Eight weeks later, he was curtly repudiated by legislative elections which turned into a referendum against his way of exercising power and left him isolated, with a very relative majority in the Assembly.
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The political crisis that has been brewing for years and which had hitherto been expressed in the street, in particular with the movement of "yellow vests", finds an electoral translation and settles in the heart of the State.
The call for a forced vote against the extremes fizzled out.
The dikes were shattered and an anti-Macron front was formed, with populisms squeezing the coalition supporting the president.
The configuration of the National Assembly of 2022 is much more representative of the political reality of France, fragmented…
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