“In the best interest of the nation, I urge you to give the country a solid majority,” Macron said in a solemn speech from the tarmac of Paris-Orly airport, before taking a flight for a visit to Romania and Moldova. .
“This is a historic moment and we live in historic times. Nothing would be worse than adding a French mess to the world mess“, warned the head of state, before leaving France for a trip focused on the war in Ukraine.
His displacement comes days before the second round of the legislative elections, in which he is fighting to maintain the absolute majority he has enjoyed in parliament since 2017 and which is necessary for him to apply his liberal program without problems.
Faced with the possibility of simply achieving a relative majority, Macron’s centrist alliance charged out against the main opposition force, the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) and its leader, the radical leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The 70-year-old political veteran is the focus of all the attacks from the Macron camp, who warn that if he came to power he would represent a risk to France and the world. This strategy was already used successfully against the extreme right in the presidential election in April.
In response to the president’s speech, the Nupes leader denounced “a skit to the [Donald] Trump to warn of the enemy within”. “Macron is sinking. At the polls, except among those over sixty,” she added.
The first round of the legislative elections the day before drew an uncertain panorama for Macron, re-elected on April 24. His alliance Together and the front that brings together the radical left, environmentalists, communists and socialists tied around 25.7% of the vote.
The polling institutes projected that, after the ballot on June 19, Macron’s forces could obtain between 255 and 295 seats, followed by the left front (150 to 210). The absolute majority is in 289 deputies.
The absence of an absolute majority would mean, according to Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire, “endless negotiations”. An ally of Macron, former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, even spoke of a “Unruly France”in the newspaper Le Figaro.
With a record abstention of 52.49% in the first round, the mobilization is announced as key to the balance of forces in the ballot on June 19 and, in this sense, the president called for voting “sensibly”
Source: Ambito
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