For the former tenant of the Élysée from 2012 to 2017, “whatever the criticisms that can be addressed” to his successor – “and they are numerous”, he emphasizes – “he was re-elected and he must therefore finish his mandate”, especially since “his resignation would cause a major institutional crisis” in France.
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There is no question of calling new legislative elections either, believes Mr. Hollande, who was elected deputy again last July in his stronghold of Corrèze (center). “I do not see how a dissolution, within six months, could give us an Assembly different from that of today”, divided into three blocs and without a majority, he justifies.
France experienced months of political crisis in 2024, triggered by the dissolution of the Assembly after the defeat of the presidential camp in the European elections against the far right.
Early legislative elections organized last summer resulted in the formation of an Assembly fractured into three blocs (alliance of left, Macronists and right, extreme right), none of which has an absolute majority.
The centrist François Bayrou, appointed in December, is the fourth Prime Minister that France has known in 2024. His predecessor lasted three months, before being overthrown by an alliance of left and far-right deputies, an unprecedented instability in France for decades.
