After a surprising defeat in the second round of Sunday’s French legislative elections, the National Rally party, led by Marine Le Pen, remains a major force in the National Assembly.
Tens of far-right deputiesnewly elected They arrived on Wednesday for the first time at the National Assembly in Paris since the results of the French legislative elections of July 7.
In spite of the surprising defeat of the National Group at the hands of the leftist New Popular Front (NFP) coalition, followed by the centrist alliance of French President Emmanuel Macronthe far-right continued to gain significantly, going from 89 seats in 2022 to at least 123 in the National Assembly today.
The left alliance has the largest number of seats in the National Assembly, with 193 out of 577, but it is very far from the threshold of 289 seats for the majority. Macron’s centrists have 164.
With this number, lThe National Group will have a key role in the maintenance or fall of the future Government. And one thing is clear: they will block any left-wing prime minister, the majority of deputies told reporters.
For some deputies, “a quagmire” that can only be resolved with a new dissolution
Others, like the deputy of the National Rally Philippe Ballard, believe that the only way out of the looming institutional crisis It is a new dissolution that can only occur next year.
“We have outlined the political perspectives, it is a leap into the unknown, it is a quagmire, as Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella” he said, referring to the party leaders. “We have also talked about the future. Apart from another dissolution within a year, we see no other solution, so we will campaign again soon,” he told ‘Euronews’.
Jordan Bardella, President of the National Group and 28-year-old MEP, appeared and asked the newly elected politicians to be “perfectly irreproachable” during his mandate. The legislative elections were marked by the revelation of numerous racist and anti-Semitic comments by the National Rally candidates.
Presidential candidates rush to establish alliances
The battle for Matignon, the position of prime minister, continues within the other blocs. The presidential side rush to look for allies to try to block a left-wing government, in particular the largest party in the coalition: La Francia Insumisa (LFI), a party led by the controversial Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“We warn very clearly that if tomorrow the CCN had to govern and there was only one member of the La Francia Insumisa party, then there would be a motion of censure and the Government would fall… We have to create an alliance beyond the current blocks that are paralyzed,” Aurore Bergé, Macron’s minister delegate for Gender Equality, told the press.
In a letter published Wednesday in the press regional, Emmanuel Macron asks the “political forces that are recognized in the republican institutions” to form a “solid” majority group in the National Assembly before being able to name a new prime minister.
The message waits bring together the deputies of the most moderate left-wing parties, such as the socialists (PS), and the moderates of the conservative right-wing party Los Republicanos (LR). However, the newly elected leader of LR, Laurent Wauquiez, announced to the French media that his party would not forge any coalition with the presidential side.
On the left, the parties have promised to present a name for the prime minister this week and insist that they are capable of govern France in minority. “It is about the leading political group appointing the prime minister. The leading political group is the New Popular Front,” Jean-Luc Mélénchon, leader of the Arcless France party (LFI), told the press in Brussels. .
President Emmanuel Macron asked his prime minister on Monday, Gabriel Attal, may he continue to take care of daily affairs, less than three weeks before the start of the Paris Olympic Games. The first session of the Lower House of the French Parliament will be held on July 18.
