Emmanuel Macron is categorical, he will not resign even in the event that he loses his majority in the Assembly
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For Emmanuel Macron, the dissolution of the National Assembly and the convening of early legislative elections is a very risky bet. The dissolution of 1997, pronounced by Jacques Chirac, ended in a major failure, the president losing his right-wing majority to be forced into five years of cohabitation with the “plural left” which had become a majority in the Assembly. Some observers are therefore wondering whether Emmanuel Macron would resign in the event of electoral failure at the end of the second round on July 7.
According to Europe 1, the president himself would have discussed this subject with one of his interlocutors in recent weeks. According to the same Source, it would be “ ready to sacrifice the end of his five-year term », which would be a first in the history of the Fifth Republic. But is this scenario really being considered? Nothing is less sure.
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“It is not the RN who writes the Constitution”
Indeed, questioned about the risk that the National Rally, in the event of victory, would request his resignation, Emmanuel Macron brushed aside this hypothesis in an interview published Tuesday June 11 by Le Figaro Magazine. “ It is not the RN which writes the Constitution, nor the spirit of it. The institutions are clear, the place of the president, whatever the result, is also clear. It’s an intangible for me “, he assured.
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Emmanuel Macron will speak to the press tomorrow to reveal his “orientation” for France while political negotiations are in full swing on both the right and the left, two days after the dissolution of the National Assembly.
