Emmanuel Macron has announced the dissolution of the Government and the calling of national elections at the end of the month, on June 30.
The French president, Emmanuel Macronsaid on Sunday that he was dissolving the National Assembly and calling early legislative elections after his party suffered a tough defeat in the European Parliament elections.
In an address to the nation from the Elysée presidential palace, Macron said: “I have decided to return to you the choice of our future parliamentarian through the vote. I therefore dissolve the National Assembly“.
The vote will be held in two rounds, on June 30 and July 7.
The measurement occurs while France’s first projected results On Sunday they put on far-right party ‘National Rally’ well ahead in European Union parliamentary electionsdefeating Macron’s pro-European centrists, according to French opinion polling institutes.
Unprecedented defeat
In a shock defeat for the current government, Jordan Bardella, the lead candidate of the far-right RN (Rassemblement National) party, gave a victory speech shortly after the provisional results were known. In his speech, Bardella urged the President of the Republic to take drastic measures.
“The President cannot remain deaf to the message sent tonight by the French people. First of all, he must abandon the agenda he was preparing to implement: The deindexation of pensions retirement and the new increase in energy prices starting this summer,” declared Bardella before his followers.
“We solemnly request that you take note of this new political situation, return to the French people and organize new legislative elections.”
This unprecedented defeat for the current French Government marks the end of a cycle and the beginning of the post-Macron era, which it is up to us to build,” he added.
Macronfor his part, responded in his speech that “the rise of nationalists and demagogues is a threat not only to our nation, but also to Europe and France’s place in the world.”
