Will there be a “rainbow” government in the fall? As the second round of the legislative elections approaches, the coalition that Emmanuel Macron has failed to build since 2022 seems to want to take shape, while the far right is on the threshold of power.
The president of the National Rally (RN) Jordan Bardella repeated, in Le Figaro of Wednesday, July 3, that he would only accept being appointed Prime Minister in the event of an absolute majority (i.e. 289 deputies). If the Le Pen party, “the only one today capable of obtaining an absolute majority in the National Assembly”according to Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, only obtained a relative majority on July 7, in particular due to the withdrawals implemented to limit the number of RN deputies, it would then be necessary, warned François Bayrou, Tuesday on France Info, “finding new answers” in order to avoid institutional blockage.
Only a broad anti-RN coalition would make it possible to form this alternative majority. The president of the MoDem has therefore called “Republicans” et “democrats” has “sit around a table” and to “take responsibility”. As early as Monday, Gabriel Attal had mentioned as an alternative to the RN “a plural assembly”, with “several political groups from the right, the left and the centre who, project by project, work together to serve the interests of the French people” and implement “a new governance and way of operating”.
Coalition approach
La France Insoumise (LFI), which should represent the leading left-wing force in the chamber, ruled out participating in this coalition on Tuesday. “The “insoumis” will only govern to implement their program, nothing but the program,” said Manuel Bompard, the national coordinator of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party, on Tuesday.
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The national secretary of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, Marine Tondelier, for her part, judged, during the “8 p.m.” news on TF1 that:“We will probably have to do things that no one has ever done before in this country,” in the event of an Assembly without a clear majority. But the leader believes that this coalition “should be built around the formation that came out on top, that is to say around the New Popular Front” and not from the presidential camp.
At the same time, on France 2, former President François Hollande also supported the coalition’s approach. “The left must be a solution, not just a barrier”affirmed the socialist candidate, in a favorable position in his stronghold of Tulle, in Corrèze.
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