The French President Emmanuel Macron he asked his team to study each constituency to find alliances, even with the candidates of Insoumise Franceto block the National Gathering Of Marine Le Penaccording to what he learned Bfmtv. A new strategic meeting will be held tomorrow morning at the Elysée.
It is the Ensemble leader’s desperate attempt to block the unstoppable rise of the right. In the first round of the early legislative elections, RN led by the young man Jordan Bardella is imposing itself and could come to power, for the first time in the Fifth Republic. Late at night the official results from the Ministry of the Interior arrive: with the 33,1% of votes, the National Rally and its allies are ahead of the left-wing coalition gathered in New Popular Front (NFP), which obtained the 28% of consensus. Further back, on the third step of the podium, there is the deployment of President Macron, who stopped at 20%. I Republicans (right), who have not formed an alliance with the RN for this call to the polls, have settled at 10%.
After the result of the first round the RN is already certain of 37 seats, the NFP of 32, the presidential field of 2. Macron chose to return to the polls three weeks after the vote for the European electionswhich certified the advance of the right, with the early dissolution of the National Assembly only two years after its previous election. Given the importance of what was at stake, the electoral round was characterized by a strong increase inturnoutarrived at 66,7%.
Now in the progressive camp the game of sacrifices has begun to favor the candidates most capable of defeating the far right, with the combination of the left and the Macronians looking for an agreement for a possible majority of broad understandings. In fact, to be elected in the first round of the French legislative elections, a candidate must obtain an absolute majority of valid votes. All candidates who have obtained at least 12.5% of the votes of those registered on the college lists enter the second round, with the possibility of triangular ballots. The second round is scheduled for next Sunday, July, but the final reconfiguration of the Assembly will depend greatly on the dynamics that will occur this week between possible withdrawals and voting instructions in every constituency.
“I intend to be a joint prime minister, respectful of the Constitution and the office of the President of the Republic, but without compromises on the policies that we will implement in the service of France”, announces Bardella immediately after the vote. In the event of an absolute majority for the Lepenists in the Assembly at the end of the second round, the leader of the far right will be “the prime minister of all the French”. Le Pen was more clear-cut when she spoke of a “practical Macronist bloc swept away” after the first round. The right-wing leader has already snatched her re-election in the first round.
“In front of the Rassemblement National, the time has come for a broad demonstration, clearly democratic and republican for the second round”, Macron’s comment on the vote immediately after the polls closed. The president welcomed the “large turnout” which “testifies to the importance of this vote for all our compatriots and the desire to clarify the political situation”. Among his candidates who came in third have already announced that they will give up the second round, the Foreign Minister Marie Guevenoux and the undersecretary Sabrina Agresti-Roubachcalling for a vote against the RN.
He first Gabriel Attal suspended the implementation of the controversial unemployment insurance reform, which was to be the subject of a decree to be published on July 1. The prime minister “decided this evening to suspend the implementation of the unemployment insurance reform, including the publication of the decree”, a source said. This reform can thus “be the subject of adjustments and discussions between the republican forces. This is Attal’s first act in the spirit of the future majorities of projects and ideas that he mentioned this evening”.
To avoid a legal vacuum, since the current unemployment insurance regulations were only valid until today, a “joint decree” will be published extending them. labor unions call for a curb on the far right. Faced with the “danger” that the RN will come to power, Marylise Leonleader of the CFDT, warned against any “political calculation”, while Sophie Binet, leader of the CGT, appealed to the “responsibility” of all French people. The New Popular Front has achieved an important result, but to try to compete with the RN in a week’s time it must work on the different visions within the left-wing cartel that brings together France Insoumise of Jean-Luc Me’lenchonMatch Socialist, Verdi, Communists and other smaller forces. The socialist secretary Olivier Faure warns: “I hear many leaders of the Macronian camp speaking without giving clear voting instructions. Their words are too confusing. It is up to them to launch a clear appeal to mobilization and to the Republic”. A very long week begins, with the leader of the Elysée called to play his last cards to remain in the saddle permanently.
