After a sluggish campaign and in a record context of 52.3 %, together! And the clip is equal with 25.2 %, according to the first results of the first round of the legislative elections.
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Close your eyes, hold your teeth and not move acting as a political strategy? No, according to the result of the first round of the legislative elections, Sunday June 12. Since his re -election as President of the Republic, on April 24, Emmanuel Macron handled the “chloroform strategy”, according to his opponents, to try to amortize the impact of a ballot that the strategists of the outgoing majority approached the ball Belly.
With the exception of a text on purchasing power, promised for the beginning of the summer, the Head of State voluntarily made itself motionless in order to avoid the discussion on the divisive points of Its program, starting with the pension reform. This was not enough to stem the dynamics of the new Ecological and Social Popular Union (Nuts), which is equal, with 25.2 % of the votes at the national level, with the overall macronist troops! (25.2 %).
According to the first projections of Ipsos-Sopra Steria, the latter risk, with 255 to 295 deputies, not to benefit from the absolute majority after the second round, June 19, whose threshold is set to 289 seats. Such a scenario would have been a first since 1988, when Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of François Mitterrand, was to govern the country with a simple relative majority at his disposal.
an early unscrew
The disappointment is already manifest if we compare the score of macronists to the 32.33 % they had obtained in the first round of the 2017 legislative elections. The overall candidates! Do not even manage to match the result of the head of state in the first round of the presidential election, less than two months ago (27.85 %). Early unscrewing, which sends a perilous signal to the Elysée tenant over the next five years. Symbol of this bad evening, the former Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, is eliminated in the 4th district of Loiret, where he had parachuted.
This configuration is to be credited with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who has managed to combine around him left forces hitherto dying. The third man of the presidential election, who united the Socialist Party, Europe Ecologie-les Verts and the French Communist Party with rebellious France around the “Mélenchon Prime Minister”, created a dynamic in this election. The only one, in truth, as no one seemed to be interested in this ballot. Abstention amounts to 52.3 % of the vote. A new record, after that of 2017 (51.3 %).
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