The head of state undergoes a major political setback: together! Obtains the relative majority in the face of the club, several faithful of the president are beaten and the RN performs a historic score. The executive will be forced to negotiate on each reform to be able to govern.
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France is a parliamentary regime. This evidence, taken from the 1958 Constitution, will express themselves in the next five years with an unprecedented scale under the V e Republic. Sunday, June 19, at the end of the second round of the legislative elections, the French have indeed granted only a short majority relating to the candidates of Emmanuel Macron, gathered under the banner together!, Rayant even from the map of many Headlines from the power in place, from Richard Ferrand to Christophe Castaner.
A sanction vote never seen for a President of the Republic just re -elected in his functions. With 224 deputies, according to the first projections of Ipsos-Sopra Steria, the macronists are largely below the fateful bar of the 289 elected officials necessary to obtain an absolute majority. And we do not yet see in a clear way which forces would allow him to reach it.
Ensemble candidates! Devance the troops of the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts), which accumulate 149 deputies. A low water levels to which the candidates of the Union of the Left could expect, at the end of the first round, if one reached it at the polls institutes. But the latter could not measure how the electoral volatility became the norm.
a “unprecedented situation”
To everyone’s surprise, the National Rally (RN) sends 89 deputies to the Palais-Bourbon. Ten times more than five years ago. A “tsunami” welcomed the acting president of the RN, Jordan Bardella. The confirmation of the tripartition of the French political scene between macronists, melenchonists and lepenists, but also that the majority voting system, which implies obtaining 50 % of the votes in the second round, no longer represents an insurmountable barrier for the party of far right. Just as he no longer protects as much as before the central forces.
The last time the RN had formed a group in the National Assembly, it was called Front National; Its president was called Jean-Marie Le Pen. It was between 1986 and 1988. Their troops were then three times fewer.
The Les Républicains Party (LR), which bet on its local anchoring to survive the day after the presidential debacle of Valérie Pécresse, is relegated to the fourth force of the National Assembly. He only has 78 deputies, against 112 during the previous mandate. Its role will nevertheless be decisive.
This configuration will indeed force the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, to find allies on each text, in fact rehabilitating a parliamentary debate often put under the extinguishing during the previous five -year term. Unlike the relative majority experienced by Michel Rocard in 1988, article 49-3 of the Constitution – which allows the adoption of a text without vote by engaging the responsibility of the government – can now be used only The only resumption by parliamentary session, excluding finance draft. Which obliges to develop a culture of the compromise to which Emmanuel Macron is not used.
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