Sébastien Chenu, one of the most influential leaders of Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (RN), widely re-elected in the first round last night, declared on France 2 that if the RN obtains a relative majority but has sufficient support, it will govern. In recent days, on several occasions, the candidate for prime minister Jordan Bardella had insisted that he would accept the post only with an absolute majority that would allow him to bring about “change” in the country.
“We will have to see how the National Assembly organizes itself,” Chenu said, “but we will assume our responsibilities to the French.” Chenu added that Macron no longer represents the majority of the French: “He is extremely in the minority in the country. Constitutionally, he is legitimate. But if he were to find himself facing an ungovernable House or if he were to be in a situation where he could not appoint a prime minister because there is no majority, then he would be in a complicated situation. He would be forced to resign.”
Bardella writes to the French: ‘Make a responsible choice’
Jordan Bardella – Prime Ministerial candidate and Marine Le Pen’s darling – has released his “letter to the French”, in which he launches an appeal “to make the choice for a responsible change”. The ballot highlighted – writes Bardella – “a historic level of participation” and from the first round “two clear choices” emerged.
Of these two, “the far left represents an existential threat to the French nation.” For Bardella, next Sunday’s ballot must be a duel between the RN and the New Popular Front, for which he imposes the face of Jean-Luc Mélenchon on his readers: “The fate of France cannot be entrusted to these arsonists who assume a strategy of permanent conflict,” he writes. No mention in the letter of Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble coalition.
Macron brings together the government to refine the strategy against RN
The President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, is meeting with his government at the Elysée to talk with his ministers about voting instructions to face the far right of the Rassemblement National in the legislative run-off scheduled for next Sunday.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and members of the government will discuss with the head of state 6 days before the second round with the possibility of the RN coming to power on the table. At the heart of the debate, the delivery of votes to voters in the face of the RN and the withdrawal of Macronians when the candidate of another party is better placed to defeat the far right in the triangular elections.
Braun-Pivet calls for a ‘grand coalition’ from PCF to LR
The outgoing president of the National Assembly, Yael Braun-Pivet (Renaissance), calls for the creation of a “grand coalition from the Republicans to the ecologists and the communists” to govern France in the aftermath of the legislative elections.
”Today I do not have the vision of a Rassemblement National with an absolute majority”, states the president of the Chamber in the aftermath of the first round of the political elections of 30 June and 7 July. ”I see that there are many duels (in sight of the second round on 7 October), many triangular elections, many constituencies in which our candidates or the candidates of the Republican arch can win”, he adds to the microphones of Bfmtv-Rmc, adding that ”for months, for years, I have been promoting this coalition republican of progressive forces, on the basis of values”.
Braun-Pivet says he met “the Communist group leader, André Chassaigne, at the National Assembly, who is a great republican, responsible, and with whom we can build. On the other hand – he emphasizes – the Républicains who have not sold out to the RN are also great democrats”. As for the divergent positions in the presidential camp on support for candidates of France Insoumise, Braun-Pivet invites people to evaluate “case by case”. “I say to the French: look in your constituency, look at who the candidates are, their values and what vision of the Republic they intend to promote”, he concluded.
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