Laura Laplaud
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8:51 a.m., June 20, 2022
Emmanuel Macron appears isolated, Monday morning, in the center of an upset political landscape, with an Assembly without an absolute majority, in which his camp is retreating sharply in favor of both the left and the far right. This historic defeat “supposes a serious examination of conscience”, said economist and historian Nicolas Baverez on Europe 1.
With 245 seats obtained instead of the 289 necessary to have an absolute majority in the National Assembly, what will the next five years look like for Emmanuel Macron? “The French have sent a message to the President of the Republic,” said economist and historian Nicolas Baverez, guest of Europe Matin on Monday. “According to which, he had to change this time, for good, his method of government.”
Governing an ungovernable Assembly?
This Monday morning, the words slap, earthquake, disaster, return in the daily newspapers. These results in the legislative elections suppose for the President of the Republic “a serious examination of conscience”, exclaimed Nicolas Baverez on Europe 1. Will the President hear the message? “He had spoken about it, since he had indicated after his re-election that there was a new era and that he was going to change, but his actions were completely out of step with his words,” he said.
“A huge leadership vacuum”
“We had a non-presidential campaign with a first round rather to the right of the President of the Republic and a second round rather to the left. Then, an appointment of Madame Borne rather to the left, with a first round of the legislative election rather on the left and a second round rather on the right. And between? We have a huge vacuum of leadership, project and strategy, and it is this vacuum that will have to be filled, this supposes for the President of the Republic an examination of serious conscience,” he said.
“The decay is going to be dramatic for the country because it means a paralyzed France, a weakened France, a France which is going to crumble. And so, if we want to escape that, there is only one way of to do is for the President of the Republic to return this time seriously on the internal level and to completely reconfigure his team at the Elysée and the government, by redefining a strategy so that we finally know what is supposed to serve this second five-year term”, he concluded.