Political crisis in France: after losing the majority, Macron summons all political forces to the Elysée

In the midst of a brutal political crisis after losing an absolute majority in the legislative elections, President Emmanuel Macron summoned “all French political forces” at the Elysée for next Tuesday and Wednesday.

The aim of the meeting is “to dialogue and exchange for the best interest of the nation and to find a solution in the service of the French”, “since there is no alternative majority” Who will be Macron’s allies? That’s the question mark.

According to Eliseo sources, representatives of political forces who have the vocation to form the ten groups planned for the meeting will be received in succession. Republican President Christian Jacob accepted the invitation. If there is an alternative for Macron it is an alliance with conservative republicanscloser to their beliefs, but not all of the party wants to get closer.

The call came after the lunch between Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne and Macron to discuss the election result. But especially after NUPES, Jean Luc Mélenchon’s left alliance, did not accept his proposal to be a united parliamentary group and to function as such in Parliament.

A few hours after being elected, the Socialists demanded their independence. The NUPES electoral group, which emerged as a second force and opposition to Ensemble, Macron’s party left without a majority, torn to pieces.

Now the first French opposition party is the National Populist Raggingby Marine Le Pen, who won 90 deputies in the House of the National Assembly.

The Council of Ministers which was to be held tomorrow was canceled and postponed without date.

The opposition asks for his resignation of the prime minister, recently appointed after Macron’s victory in the presidential elections. Normally the premier resigns after the legislative ones. The head of state may or may not accept it.

orphan president

The election left President Emmanuel Macron no absolute parliamentary majoritywith only 245 seats and no ally willing to accompany him.

His projects – from the refounding of the country to the postponement of the retirement age – are now in danger or set aside. A political crisis engulfs France in these hours, when the president has practically not campaigned in the legislative elections.

The most important match was the abstention of 53.79 percent percent. Nupes, the left-wing alliance, won 127 seats and Marine Le Pen 90 seats, according to the final results.

“A motion of censure against the government” has been proposed by the opposition and will be voted on July 5. Just when the new deputies have already begun to arrive at the National Assembly. The unmissable inauguration ceremony: tricolor scarf, official photo and suitcase. Many sleep in their office, on a sofa bed, to save an apartment.

The stability of Prime Minister Borne is in doubt in the midst of this representative storm. The left opposition calls for his resignation and its future will be decided in the next few hours.

But Manuel Bompard, the deputy of the NUPES alliance, has called for his resignation. “You cannot continue to govern as if nothing had happened. That the premier resigns would be the political logic of these results. she failed in convincing the majority of the deputies of the National Assembly. He has no political legitimacy to rule, he said.

Three women ministers in the Macron government lost their seats. Health Minister Brigitte Bourguignon has already resigned. But also the minister of ecological transition, Amélie de Montchalin, and Justin Benin were defeated in Guadeloupe, in the troubled Caribbean territories.

Coalition or dissolution

Macron prepares to save his second term, after the radical left and hard-line nationalist parties won his overall parliamentary majority eight weeks after his presidential triumph.

In demonstration of the anger of voters against his government, without distinction of classes: top-down in France, he voted against his government. He has paid for the Covid epidemic, the rampage of the Yellow Vests, the astronomical cost of living, fuel prices, high taxes, unemployment, shortages, migration tension and racism.

Macron’s centrist block, Ensemble, it lost a third of its seats in the last round of parliamentary elections. A harsh rebuke for a president re-elected two months ago, with 59 percent of the vote.

To carry out the promised reforms with only a relative majority of 245 seats, his government faces tough negotiations with sections of the conservative Republican Party. who finished fourth and wants to continue being the opposition.

Facing Macron is a resurgent left-wing alliance, known as Nupes, which has taken the power of the opposition to 127 seats, under the brutal leadership of Mélenchon, who invented a winning alliance in just a few weeks.

The 70-year-old left-wing populist, third in the presidential race, did not run for re-election as deputy. But he invented a new status: be elected prime ministerin a coexistence because Macron does not have a majority, but the NUPES broke up in a few hours, after his proposals to be just a group.

A German-style coalition, where we discuss comma by comma. You can dissolve the meeting now or in 12 months. A strong prime minister who carries out real government policy and a more presidential president. Today the government is paralyzed and helpless in this atmosphere.

France is going through a crisis of representativeness at the moment, with a population that does not believe in its political class and its institutions, with the leadership of President Macron questioned and unachievable.

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