The French voted this Sunday to decide whether to ease the centrist president’s second term Emmanuel macron with a new absolute majority of MPs at the end of an election marathon lasting several months. And the first protrusions indicate victory Center alliance of President Emmanuel Macron, but she would lose an absolute majority to the united front of the left and an ascending right, according to the forecasts for this Sunday mentioned above.
The AllianceTogether! (Ensemble!) by Macron would get between 200 and 260 placesfollowed by the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (nupesleft) in between 150 and 200 and the national group from Marine LePenfrom 60 to 100according to the above projections.
That third place in the match marine LePen, Marine Le Pen’s National Group (RN) was great news for the party celebrating “tsunami” in the parliamentary elections Franceaccording to the first projections give him between 60 and 100 places.
“It’s a sea blue wave across the country. The lesson tonight is that the French people made Emmanuel Macron a minority president,” he congratulated himself on TF1 television. Jordan Bardella, your interim leader. This is how Le Pen’s party could form fractionfor the first time since 1986.
Macron’s biggest rival was the New People’s UnionEcological and social (Nupes), the first left front in 25 years, bringing together the radical left, environmentalists, communists and socialists. Their leader is the political veteran Jean Luc Melenchonwhich suffered a great electoral disaster.
The left portrayed the election as a “third round” of the presidential election, as the French voted pro-centre to prevent his far-right rival Marine Le Pen from coming to power, rather than his ideas.
His goal was to wring the majority macron and compel him to appoint Mélenchon as prime minister. With that the nupes searched “Living together” Stop the president’s program and implement his own, such as raising the minimum wage to €1,500 net a month. But his strategy failed in the elections.
Recent polls already ruled out this latter scenario, but they predict that the center alliance ¡Juntos! from macron He could lose an absolute majority in parliament and look for allies to carry out his reforms.
Election day started badly for the presidential field, as on the island of Guadeloupe in the French West Indies, the Secretary of State for the Sea, Justin Benin, was defeated by a left-wing candidate and must resign from the government. In the overseas territories, the left received at least eight MPs.
The abstention was heralded as crucial, especially as less than half of voters cast their ballots in last week’s first round of general elections. The trend should be confirmed this Sunday.
“I expect absolutely nothing from politicians because I no longer trust them. They took us away,” Marie-Olga told AFP on Saturday as she was about to vote for civic duty on the Caribbean island of Martinique.
Sunday’s vote closes a crucial electoral cycle for France’s direction over the next five years. The next election date is the European Parliament elections in 2024, two years in which the parties can regulate the ongoing recomposition.
The emergence of the middle macron In 2017 she shook up the French political body, now split into three main blocs – the radical left, the center and Le Pen’s social-populism – leaving aside the traditional ruling parties.
After the presidential election debacle, the Socialist Party (PS) decided to join the front led by Mélenchon, despite the dissatisfaction of its former leaders, and the weakened Republicans hope to be the key to weaving majorities macron in parliament.