The French have reversed the first-round vote. Emmanuel Macron’s gamble and the desistance pact worked, at least in the short term, given that the Rassemblement National actually came in third, but there is no doubt that France is now at risk of an impasse. The New Popular Front, the left-wing alliance formed to counter the advance of the Rassemblement National in the second round of the French legislative elections, has won the largest number of seats in the next Assemblèe Nationale, composed of 577 deputies in total. The NFP will have 182. This is according to the final election data released by the Ministry of the Interior. The centrist formation supporting President Emmanuel Macron, Ensemble, obtained 168, while Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National, allied with a part of the Republicains led by party president Eric Ciotti, is third with 143 elected deputies. According to the calculations of the daily newspaper Le Monde, within the Nouveau Front Populaire, Jean-Luc Mèlenchon’s France Insoumise is the most represented with 74 elected members, to which are added 3 “dissidents” of the party. The Socialist Party will have 59 deputies and the Ecologists 28. The Communist Party has elected 9 parliamentarians and Generation.s 5.
The Prime Minister of France, Gabriel Attal, announced immediately following the first exit polls that he will resign but also that he will “fulfill his duties as long as he has to”. The fact is that no one has a majority alone (only the centrists and the left might have one if they decided to form an alliance) but it does not seem possible, at least for now, to build coalitions between the forces in the field. Bardella, president of RN, will certainly not form a government with Macron or even with Mélenchon. And the leader of the New Popular Front has closed the doors to any government agreement. “Macron should go or appoint a prime minister from our ranks” he thundered. The Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourné replied to the leader of the far left: “It is obvious” that Jean-Luc Mélenchon “cannot govern France” he declared. Rennaissance will be “intransigent in defending republican principles, especially secularism, and in the fight once morest racism and anti-Semitism”, as well as “determinedly pursuing European integration and maintaining support for Ukraine in the face of Russia”.
Clémentine Autain, a member of La France Insoumise (LFI) for the 11th constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis, called on left-wing MPs to meet today to propose a unified prime minister. The possible solution might therefore be a prime minister who is “neither François Hollande nor Jean-Luc Mélenchon”. For his part, Macron spoke through his entourage, calling for caution because the results do not answer the question of “who should govern”.
The occupant of the Elysée Palace will “wait” for the National Assembly to “be structured” to make decisions on a new government. After the result, a crowd of regarding 500 supporters of the far left began to converge on the Place de la Republique where they clashed with the police. “The alliance of dishonor,” Bardella called it, seeing his aspiration to become France’s youngest prime minister at 28 years old shattered. “Dangerous electoral agreements” tonight “throw France into the arms of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far left,” he thundered, stressing instead that the RN “is today making the biggest step forward in its history.”
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2024-07-09 02:46:11
