Last weekend, the President saw his Ensemble coalition fall well short of the absolute majority threshold in France’s general elections, winning just 245 of the 289 seats needed. Fierce electoral rival Marine Le Pen led her party to its largest ever representation in the House of Commons, while left-bloc Nupes, led by veteran Jean-Luc Melenchon, is now the main opposition force. Just days after that embarrassment, Emmanuel Macron was left stunned after rejecting the resignation of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, who had only been in office for a month.
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The president, under pressure, must now form a governing coalition or lead a minority government that must negotiate bill for bill with opponents.
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But in the ultimate worst-case scenario, he faces the nightmarish prospect of holding snap general elections just weeks after winning his second term.
Eric Noirez, a prominent Frexiteer who is a member of the Generation Frexit movement, believes Mr Macron’s disastrous result in the election has given enormous momentum to France’s exit from the European Union.
He told Express.co.uk: “Macron is the embodiment of Europeanism and he is so weakened now that he may not be able to govern.
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“Of course, the question of our membership in the EU will push itself into the public debate and become central due to the circumstances.
“If they want to be credible, opposition parties will increasingly have to take clear positions and make commitments to the EU.
“At the very least they have to push for a referendum on our membership of the EU as the UK.”
Mr Macron is under intense pressure and has tried to reach out to political opponents, urging them to come up with ideas for legislation from the fragmented Parliament.
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Tonight (Saturday), Mr Macron said he had asked Prime Minister Borne to bring him “proposals” for “a new action government” to be appointed “in the first days of July”.
He said: “Upon my return from the G7 and NATO summits, the Prime Minister will bring me proposals for a roadmap for the French government in the months and years to come, as well as for the composition of a new government of action, the French service, which we are preparing in the first days of July.”
This newly formed government can be joined by representatives of rival political forces willing to work with the majority.
But Mr Noirez warned the French president “just doesn’t have the upper hand anymore” and is “not the master of the game anymore”.
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He added Mr Macron is now at a “dead end” and faces a difficult task to get some of his most hated directives through Parliament – including raising the retirement age from 65 to 66.
The Frexiteer concluded: “Beyond Macron, the European Commission has already officially published the main reforms it expects from France, together with the general economic policy guidelines that it issues as it does every year.
“Not surprisingly, they include the famous pension reform so scorned by the French – and rightly so, it must be said – as well as traditional fiscal discipline, which must be translated into even greater austerity measures and will be incompatible with the state of Distress and distress in which some public services in France find themselves.
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“By not getting an absolute majority on the benches of the National Assembly, Macron risks having all the difficulties to pass the reforms.
“He will find himself in an impasse for his second term, as there is a strong risk of an absolute incompatibility between the demands and reforms desired by the Commission and the French government and the aspirations of the popularly elected MEPs.
“Now we are entering a competition where Macron is no longer the master of the game.”
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