The National Rally, the main opposition party in Parliament, came out on top, ahead of the union of the far left and the left, as well as the presidential majority.
Emmanuel Macron hoped for a «clarification» but the first round of the legislative elections, with the National Rally largely in the lead and “gates of power”constitutes a “disaster” for the head of state, underlines the press, which almost entirely calls for «barrage» to the RN party put in the lead by the French. With a surprise dissolution announced just after the European elections, Emmanuel Macron “made a bet. He lost it. Worse, it’s a disaster for his camp”takes over in the Voice of the North Stephanie Zorn.
“When historians look back on the dissolution, they will have only one word: disaster! It could not be more complete.”adds Alexis Brézet in Le Figaro . “France finds itself faced with the double perspective of political adventure or institutional blockage: the two facets of a regime crisis. Thank you, Macron!”.
Read also“Legislative: a French tragedy”, the editorial of Le Figaro, by Alexis Brézet
Same observation for Stéphane Vergeade in The mountain: “It is understood that Emmanuel Macron lost his bet, launched in the solitude of a Sunday evening, the motives of which remain misunderstood for a long time”. “In its claim to embody the only alternative to ‘chaos’, writes Dov Alfon, in Liberation, the French responded by holding him responsible for this chaos; at his request from a clear majority ‘to act in serenity and concord’, they inflicted on him an additional torture of isolation”.
“Clarification was widely desired throughout the debates. Clarification there has been, and not just a little. France wakes up with the unprecedented face-to-face of the two extremes”estimated in the Journal of Haute-MarnePatrice Chabanet. In the Latest News from AlsacePascal Coquis even sees it “the end of macronism”. “That the party in power is paying the high price for this electoral adventurism is therefore a matter of implacable political and mathematical logic that only the blindness of a head of state completely obsessed with himself will have hidden.”, he decides. It is indeed “the end of an era”headline The echoes.
“Tipping point”
But now a decisive week of political negotiations begins. “After the shock, stand together”titre Release in the headlines, emphasizing that “only a republican barrier will be able to avoid the worst”. On July 7, “it’s about choosing between the worst and the less worst, it’s about going to the polls to keep in mind what history teaches us about the extreme right and the damage it causes where she settles”underlines in the Free MiddayOlivier Biscay.
“This reality is not anecdotal, it should at the very least generate a surge of unity and height of vision, a surge of coherence and exemplarity”he continues. But for Alexis Brézet in Le Figaro , “between Bardella and Mélenchon, who, in conscience, would want to put a sign of equality?”. “The RN program is certainly worrying in many ways, but on the other hand: anti-Semitism, Ilsamo-leftism, class hatred, tax hysteria…”he says.
“France has reached a tipping point”writes for his part Stéphane Vergeade in The mountain et “The coming week is unlike any other. And it places us face to face with ourselves. The moment imposes choices and clear words”. “From this disorder a majority can still emerge that lives up to the values of the Republic”wants to believe Séverin Husson in The cross.
But Emmanuel Macron “has thrown France into a hellish whirlwind” and it is not “It is not certain that alliances, coalitions or a hypothetical Republican arc will succeed in countering the navy blue tsunami carried by 11.5 million voters”warns Carole Lardot in L’Union.
