“The RN at the gates of power”. The voice of the North, The mountain, Free Charente, The Parisian, 20 Minutes, Presse-Océan, Le Maine Libre, Le Courrier de l’Ouest…Several newspapers chose the same title this Monday 1is July 2024, the day after the first round of the legislative elections marked by the score of the far-right party allied to Éric Ciotti, in the lead with 33% of the votes. Jordan Bardella, who has been dreaming of becoming Prime Minister for weeks, is prominently featured in the front page photos.
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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 side”takes up 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! ».
“Emmanuel Macron has lost his bet”
The 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”.
“To its claim to embody the only alternative to chaos, writes Dov Alfon, in Release, The French responded by holding him responsible for this chaos; to his plea for a clear majority to act in serenity and harmony, they inflicted on him the 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”estimates in the Journal of Haute-MarnePatrice Chabanet.
The results of the 2024 legislative elections
“The end of Macronism”
In the Latest News from AlsacePascal Coquis even sees “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. But now a decisive week of political negotiations begins. “After the shock, come together”titre Release on the front page, emphasizing that “only a republican barrier will be able to avoid the worst”. Humanity calls for his part to “stand up”.
“Choose between the worst and the least worst”
July 7, “It’s about choosing between the worst and the least worst, it’s about going to the polls keeping in mind what history teaches us about the extreme right and the damage it causes wherever it takes root”underlines in Free MidiOlivier 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, Islamo-leftism, class hatred, tax hysteria…”he says.
“The longest week”
“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 requires clear choices and words.”.
“The longest week begins”titre West France remembering that the final number of triangulars will be the key to the vote.
“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 an infernal whirlwind” and he 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.
