A few days before the second round of early legislative elections called by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, we learn a little more about his father who gives his frank opinion about his actions.
The political forces are all mobilized with the aim of winning as many seats as possible in the hemicycle. Sunday July 7thOn this day, the French are invited to go to the polls to elect their deputies following the dissolution of the National Assembly announced by the President of the Republic. Emmanuel Macron after the results of the European elections favourable to National RallySunday June 9. The first round which took place last Sunday saw the far-right party led by Jordan Bardella win with 33% of the votes cast, far ahead of the great left-wing arch called the New Popular Front and the Renaissance alliance which brings together the presidential party, the MoDem and Horizons.
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In 76 constituencies the deputy has already been elected, so there will be no second round. 39 elected members are part of the National Rally. But to obtain the absolute majority set at 289 seats in the Palais Bourbon and implement his program as he sees fit, the one who claims to replace Gabriel Attal as Prime Minister will have to unite. Jordan Bardella called on all French people to vote and rally around him to “to straighten out the country”We imagine that with his campaign teams he is already doing the math to determine whether victory is possible or not, and whether he would not ultimately be limited in his movements by only obtaining a relative majority in the National Assembly.
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The dissolution of the Assembly decided in advance
At the same time, many criticize the decision of the President of the Republic, which would open the door to a far-right government that many fear. This is the case of his father Jean-Michel Macron who spoke on this subject in the columns of Dauphine Liberated. “I am afraid that the National Rally will come to power. Now, if the French want it, they will experience it. They will see the result. It is better that France experiences it for two years rather than for five years.”he assured during an interview published on Wednesday, July 3. “If the RN shows in two years that it is completely incapable of governing, we can hope that it will not go any further. That’s a bit like what my son told me two months before the European elections.”he added, affirming that The wish to dissolve the National Assembly does not date from June 9.
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Indeed, according to Jean-Michel Macron, the President of the Republic “believed that the National Assembly had become ungovernable”the Renaissance party and its allies having failed to maintain an absolute majority that would have allowed the government of Elisabeth Borne to pass all laws without regularly resorting to article 49:3 of the Constitution. He took the opportunity to express himself more broadly on the second term of his sonbelieving that he had made “original things” but that he was not “not followed”citing the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, of whom he is “disappointed” of behavior.
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An admiration for François Ruffin?
For him, Emmanuel Macron does not have “made big mistakes”but rather “clumsiness in the way things are announced”. “There are not many politicians who would have been able to get out of a crisis like that of the Yellow Vests”he said, stressing that he would not vote in the first constituency of the Somme on Sunday July 7, where the candidate of the New Popular Front François Ruffin finds himself in difficulty against the candidate of the National Rally. “I would have voted for François Ruffin by default if I were in his constituency, because I will never vote for the RN. I like François Ruffin. He is a good MP. He has a fairly open mind, even if he is sometimes excessive and provocative, but there are worse people than him”he suggested.
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After which Jean-Michel Macron fired broadsides at Jean-Luc Mélenchon who was gathering the crowd around him on the evening of the first round of the 2024 legislative elections, at Place de la République in Paris. “He is crazy”he said, before concluding by insisting on the fact that “The Mélenchonists are unbearably rude”.
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