Emmanuel Macron lost the absolute majority in theAssemblée Nationale. A real hit for the newly re-elected President of the French Republic, who now has to deal with significantly more unstable parliamentary numbers compared to the last electoral term. his coalition “Ensemble” received, according to the first projections of the ballots of the legislature 234 seats against the 141 of the alliance nupes powered by Jean Luc Melenchon. Historic result for the party of Marine LePen: the national assembly this even passes elected from 8 to 90 and lies well in front of the right side of the Républicains (LR) (75 deputies). A completely different scenario is opening up for French politics than in recent years: the government majority is far from the threshold 289 seats the absolute majority must look for axes and agreements to be evaluated from time to time and for each text. According to Elabe for the Bfmtv, the final abstention will be with 54%: higher than last Sunday’s first round (52.49%), but lower than in the second round of the last legislative rounds in 2017 (57.36%).
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Macron’s defeat – The blow to the newly re-elected President of the Republic is destined to change the fate of his second term. La République en Marche, Macron’s party, which he took over just five years ago more than 300 parliamentarians alone, this round he has to settle for less than half. The distrust of voters has become very clear. In fact, three ministers elected by the Head of State for the government have been defeated in the territories who, as announced in recent weeks, will have to resign: Minister for Ecological Transition Amélie de Montchalin, Minister Brigitte Bourguignon (Health) and Justine Bénin (Maritime Affairs) . Also defeated the President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrandand the leader of the En Marche group in Parliament, Christopher Castaner. Instead, the first French minister was elected Elizabeth Borne with 52.46% of the votes. And in the photo finish also Europe Minister Clément Beaune. “Our hand extends to everyone who wants to advance the country,” said the French government spokesman Olivia Gregory. For the finance minister Bruno LeMarie: “France is not ungovernable, but it takes a lot of imagination to act”.
The left of Mélenchon first opposition group – The first winner of this election vote is certainly Jean Luc Melenchon. After narrowly failing to qualify for the presidential election, he hoped to mobilize many more young people and abstentions. But in the end he will have to be “satisfied” with upsetting the presidential balance: he dreamed of forcing Macron to live together (i.e. without a majority), but instead he would have to undermine the executive with individual measures. Certainly one of the most surprising results for Mélenchon was that he was able to unite the left in a single coalition. “The defeat of the President’s party,” said the Nupes leader, “is total and there is no majority. We do not give up the ambition to rule the country“.
The unprecedented result of Le Pen – But she is definitely one of the winners of this evening Marine LePen: If it didn’t beat Macron in the presidential election, it can now celebrate the historic record of the elected far-right. In fact, it ranges from not having enough seats to form your own parliamentary group to being given a register of MPs. It was projected that between 75 and 95 MPs of his formation would be elected, a number which, if confirmed, would exceed the 35 MPs of the then Front National elected in the 1986 (and then with the proportional one). “This group will be by far the largest in the history of our political family,” Le Pen commented, promising that it would “embody a firm but ‘responsible’ opposition.