Paris.- France is at a standstill following the early legislative elections. Emmanuel Macron has created a crisis in the Fifth Republic from which no one can find a way out, following his dissolution of the National Assembly and a result in which the left has won, which is prepared to form opposition but has no government plan or a clear candidate for prime minister.
No bloc has an absolute majority of 289 seats. An Italian-style coalition must emerge. The French head of state has been left alone, abandoned by his peers, who feel that he has betrayed them by deciding the fate of their politicians himself, without warning them.
On Tuesday, the government will be left without its interim prime minister and without a cabinet. Macron will have to accept the resignation of Gabriel Attal, his premier, because he is due to take over on the 18th as leader of Together for the Republic, now the former Ensemble in the National Assembly. Post-Macronism has already begun in the Assembly. The cabinet will resign en masse because many of them are now legislators and Macron will have to replace them. In this state of solitude, who will want a position in Macron’s “caretaker” cabinet?
France Insoumise, a radical leftist party that won the most votes in the parliamentary elections, on Monday cancelled “its participation in the discussions on the formation of a government. It will not participate in any supplementary discussions on the formation of a government” and is putting pressure on the Socialist Party. It added that it rejects a civil society candidate for prime minister. It wants a politician.
Since the founding of France’s current Fifth Republic in 1958, its elections have produced clear majorities, in most cases from the same side as the president himself.
This time the parliament is made up of three broad, mutually antagonistic groups. The New Popular Front, a hastily cobbled together coalition of Socialists, Communists, Greens and the far-left La France Insoumise, came first, but with only 178 seats. It was far short of the 289 needed for an absolute majority.Clarín.
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2024-07-17 17:54:45
