Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Nupes came out on top in the first round of the legislative elections with 26.1% of the vote, closely followed by the Together! coalition, supporting Emmanuel Macron, at 25.4%, according to the first estimates of this Sunday evening . The insubordinate deputy of France Clémentine Autain reacted on Sunday evening.
While the first results of the first round of the legislative elections have just fallen this Sunday evening, the deputy LFI Clémentine Autain, reacted to the score of Nupes (26.1%). The left alliance (LFI, PS, EELV, PCF) is likely to be present in 480 constituencies in the second round of legislative elections, she said.
“We defied all predictions”
“I have the feeling that we overturned the table, the left was supposed to be dead, we thwarted all the predictions and we came first in this first round,” she said on TF1. Manuel Bompard (LFI) for his part estimated on Twitter that Nupes would be present in the second round “in more than 500 constituencies”.
“The presidential party is defeated,” said Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of France Insoumise and the Union of the Left (Nupes), on Sunday, calling on his troops to “surge” in the second round of the elections. legislative. “For the first time in the Fifth Republic, a newly elected president is unable to gather a majority in the legislative election that follows,” welcomed the Insoumis leader.
“I call on our people, in view of these results and the extraordinary opportunity it presents for our personal lives and for the destiny of the common homeland, to come out on Sunday next Sunday to definitively reject the disastrous plans of the majority of Mr. Macron”, he launched, citing in particular the retirement at 65 years old.