We will have to wait another seven days to figure out who will have the majority in Parliament in France. With a turnout never so low in history, the key to victory is in fact in the
“reserves of votes”
on which each of the parties can count. Traditionally, the ballot reserves in the French legislative system are more on the side of the center parties when, as in the present case, they are dealing with two rather “extreme” parties on the left and right.
“We need one
strong and clear majority
“said Elisabeth Borne, the premier, appointed by the coalition Ensemble! to speak on behalf of the government alliance after the elections, soberly. The objective of the macronist team is to have an absolute majority that allows them to carry out the ambitious reforms illustrated during the electoral campaign, in particular the one that has never been achieved so far in France, to increase the age required for retirement to 65.
Macron’s government would be “crippled” according to analysts if it were to negotiate any bill with other forces in parliament. Considering that the first opposition group would be the left-wing coalition that has exactly the opposite ambition on pensions: to lower the retirement age from the current 62 to 60. But the last word will come next Sunday with the second round. To obtain an absolute majority, Macron would have to exceed the threshold of 289 seats. During his first term, Macron enjoyed a very large majority, amounting to 341 seats in the National Assembly.
Melenchon: “Macron’s party defeated, us in the lead”
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“At the end of this first round, the Nouvelle union populaire is in the lead, present in more than 500 constituencies in the second round”. This is the comment of the left-wing coalition leader Nupes Jean-Luc Melenchon quoted by the French media. “The presidential party is beaten and defeated at the end of the first round. For the first time in the Fifth Republic, a newly elected president fails to obtain a majority in the legislative elections”, continues Melenchon, who appeals to voters ahead of the ballot of next Sunday: “In view of this result and the extraordinary opportunity it presents for our personal life and for the destiny of our common homeland. I invite people to come out next Sunday”.
Le Pen goes to the ballot in the polling station where she applied –
The leader of the Rassemblement National Marine Le Pen will go to the second round of the legislative elections, having obtained 55% of the votes in the constituency of Pas-de-Calais. The former presidential candidate then urged voters to “not choose between the destroyers from above and the destroyers from below” in the constituencies where candidates for President Emmanuel Macron and those of the New ecological union will face off next Sunday. and social (Nupes), a coalition that brings together the main leftist parties.
Le Pen: “The important thing is not to give Macron a majority” –
“I want to thank the national voters, and in particular those of the 11th district of Pas-de-Calais, who placed me with 55% of the votes”, said Marine Le Pen, quoted by the French media, “I ask all voters to confirm their votes. The second round gives us the ability to send a certain number of deputies to the Assembly. ” “Next Sunday it is important not to vote for Emmanuel Macron. If you let that happen, we risk entering a tunnel without light for five years,” she remarked.
Zemmour eliminated in first round of legislative –
Harsh blow to Eric Zemmour, the former far-right polemicist founder of the Reconquete movement eliminated in the first round of the legislative elections in the Var, the department of Saint-Tropez, in the south of France. Zemmour had already been defeated last April, in the presidential elections that led to Emmanuel Macron’s victory. “The results are not up to our expectations, but we have put up a flag in every constituency of France,” commented the defeated candidate.
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