Prime Minister and candidate for the legislative elections, Elisabeth Borne came out well ahead of her constituency of Calvados in the first round, but she still does not know what form the majority will have the day after the second…
Halftone evening for Elisabeth Borne. The legislative candidate came first in the sixth constituency of Calvados with 32% of the votes cast. A successful first for the one who had never presented herself to the votes of the French before this election. But Elisabeth Borne the Prime Minister, she still does not know with what majority she should govern, if she were to stay in Matignon after the second round.
The united left (25% to 26.2%) and President Macron’s camp (25% to 25.8%) arrive neck and neck in the first round of legislative elections on Sunday, against a backdrop of record abstention (52 .1% to 52.8%), thus opening the game of the second round in a week. The first projections of the 577 seats give an advantage to the outgoing majority united under the label Ensemble!, with a range of 260 to 300 seats, ahead of the left (LFI, PCF, PS and EELV) united under the Nupes banner (150 to 208), according to the Harris Institute, and a range of 275 to 310 for Together! and 190 to 210 for Nupes, according to Ifop-Fiducial. But these first projections do not settle two major questions: will the head of state manage to keep his absolute majority in the National Assembly? And will the left find sufficient reserves of votes to send, as it hopes, the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon to Matignon?
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We are the only political force able to obtain a majority in the National Assembly
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“Tonight, millions of French people have chosen the candidates of the presidential majority. Thanks to them and our massive presence in the second round, we are the only political force able to obtain a majority in the National Assembly,” declared Elisabeth Borne from the campaign headquarters of Ensemble!. “Faced with the extremes, we alone carry a project of coherence, clarity and responsibility”.
Élisabeth Borne, from the HQ of the presidential majority: “As has never happened in the political history of our country, we are faced with unprecedented confusion at the extremes” @Paris Match #legislative2022 pic.twitter.com/vQOdFvPTPm
— Emilie Cabot (@emiliecabot) June 12, 2022
The Prime Minister did not give voting instructions in the event of a duel between the candidates of the National Rally and those of the Nupes, and endeavored to send them back back to back, evoking an “unprecedented confusion between the extremes”, “as never before in the political history of our country”.
“Faced with the situation of the world and the war at the gates of Europe, we cannot take the risk of instability and approximations”, further pleaded Elisabeth Borne, who also addressed the abstentionists. “To all those who abstained, I want to say this evening to believe in the strength of their vote and to make their voices heard next Sunday,” she declared, adding: “our first collective duty, c ‘is to push back abstention’.