Paris, 20 June 2022 – The ballots of the legislative elections in France punish Emmanuel Macron and revolutionize the Assemblée Nationale, now very divided. Leading the parties of the presidential alliance Ensemble !, with the relative majority of 247 deputies. The groups that compose it are Renaissance (the new name of the Macronian République en Marche) with 166 seats, the MoDem centrists with 47, the party of former premier Edouard Philippe, Horizons, with 28, and other minors with 6. In total, the coalition lost 100 seats compared to 2017.
The left goes up with 147 seats to the coalition Nupes, divided as follows: 84 to La France Insoumise by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, 29 to the Socialists, 21 to the Greens and 13 to the Communists. 8 ‘others on the left’ are added. Unprecedented boom for the National Rally of Marine Le Penwhich becomes the first party with 90 deputies, surpassing even that of Mélenchon, in addition to the neo-Galilist Républicains, which – allied with the UDI centrists – resist in fourth place with 68 seats.
What happens now
First hypotheses of the macronists to get out of the crisis scenario which opens with today’s results. Could be possible agreements with individual deputies of Les Républicains and the Socialists “within the Nupes and outside”, speculated the new Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau (in office since May 20) re-elected yesterday in the Loir-et-Cher. “We pay the price of a democratic system that has reached its last breath, with many angry Frenchmen, with many abstentions. Last night, excluding the Rn, there were only people who lost. Nobody could be happy with the result. We are in a situation. unlikely and unprecedented. The worst for a country is that you are unable to get the National Assembly to approve anything, that you are in a process of paralysis “, he added.
Le Pen: “We will not compromise on anything”
“Will the president still be able to do what he wants? Clearly not”: he still rejoices Marine Le Pen to the microphones of BFM-TV. “We are the first opposition party – claims the leader of Rassemblement National – We therefore request the Presidency of the Finance Commission and the vice-presidency of the National Assembly. We will not compromise in anything. “Le Pen will devote himself to the parliamentary group and will not resume the presidency of the party, entrusted to the young Jordan Bardella.