Emmanuel Macron has lost his absolute majority in the Assembly and obtains a small majority. The Nupes succeeds in its breakthrough, and the RN a historic score.
Many uncertainties hover after the election of deputies. Some of them, in the opposition, demanded the resignation of Elisabeth Borne. The Nupes and the RN each claim the presidency of the Finance Committee.
The “proposal” of the leader of La France insoumise goes back to the original plan of the alliance, which was to ensure a parliamentary group for each of the four left-wing parties united in the New Popular Ecological and Social Union.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, elected in Calvados during the legislative elections, is nevertheless being pushed around after the slimming diet inflicted on the Macronist troops during the election. If her resignation is likely, it would be at this stage a custom of the Fifth Republic. But his future at Matignon raises questions…
France is moving forward into the unknown after legislative elections with the appearance of an earthquake on Sunday, with the Macron camp losing the absolute majority, the strong breakthrough of the united left and the historic score of the National Rally. According to the final results of the Ministry of the Interior, 245 deputies were elected under the presidential banner, 135 for the Nupes and 89 for the RN. The Republicans save the furniture with 61 seats.
Of the fifteen in the running, three ministers, Amélie de Montchalin (Ecological Transition), Brigitte Bourguignon (Health) and Justine Benin (Sea) were defeated and will have to leave the government.
Abstention reached Sunday 53.77% in the second round of legislative elections, up more than a point from the first round (52.49%).
A personal “slap” for Macron, who will have to compose, according to the press
“Slap”, “slap”, “humiliating defeat”, “stinging disavowal”, the press has no words strong enough Monday morning to describe the setback suffered in the legislative elections by the camp of President Emmanuel Macron, who will have to learn to compose, according to editorialists. “The five-year term that is opening looks like a terra incognita for Emmanuel Macron,” also estimates Paul Quinio in Libération. “Which will force him to compose, discuss, negotiate. And it is an understatement to say that the president has not excelled in this exercise for five years, whether with elected officials or with intermediary bodies.”
