Recalling that in October 2016, Macron had just established a new political party, resigned as the French economy minister, and began to criticize his "former boss", the then Socialist President François Hollande, in the media.
In a high-profile media interview, Macron argued that the French as a "political nation" cannot be content with "the execution of procedures" as the basis of their "national pride" like the Germans. What the French need is not a A "normal" president like Hollande, but a president like Jupiter ("président jupitérien"), the head of the gods in ancient Greek mythology.
Unfortunately, in the second round of voting in the French parliamentary election on June 19, Macron's "Ensemble" group won only 245 seats, losing more than 100 seats, 44 seats away from the simple majority, making Macron's "Ensemble" caucus only 245 seats. He became the first French president in nearly two decades to lack the support of a parliamentary majority.
It is also the largest party in Congress with the fewest seats since the establishment of the French Fifth Republic in 1958.
On June 21, Marine Le Pen went to the Elysee Palace to meet Macron.
(Associated Press)
president who lost congressional majority
French presidential victors often see parliamentary elections as their official coronation to power.
Macron is no exception. He visited Kyiv just before the second round of parliamentary votes, and it seems that the majority of the parliament is already in hand.
In the end, the left-wing coalition NUPES, formed by the leader of the far-left "Unyielding France" (LFI) Jean-Luc Mélenchon, won 131 seats, of which "Unyielding France" won 72 seats, the traditional center-left Socialist Party 26 seats, and the Green Party Alliance. 21 seats and 12 for the Communist Party, but the major parties in this alliance do not seem to have any intention of acting together in the future; the far-right National Rally (RN) led by Marine Le Pen won 89 seats, larger than the previous one. It has risen tenfold, far better than the pre-election forecast; the traditional center-left Republican Party won 61 seats, which can be regarded as retaining some of the sunset.
As a result, the French parliament looks like the German parliament, divided into a large number of blocs that cannot hold power alone.
Although the French decided in April to let Macron be re-elected president, the parliamentary elections showed that people did not want him to be "Jupiter" again.
Macron has officially ended the past five years with the "one-word church" rule supported by a majority in Congress.
Since France does not have a tradition of multi-party compromise like other European countries, its president is more often regarded as a "monarque républicain", holding great power and ruling the country in a luxurious palace. Macron, who reminded that "France also has a parliamentary system", faced the first problem.
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