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Electoral logic as well as republican tradition should finally lead the President to appoint a representative of the NFP as Prime Minister. But he and his camp do not want to understand anything and are conspicuous by their complacency.
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If no one obtained an absolute majority during the last legislative elections, caused by Emmanuel Macron’s decision – as unexpected as it was risky – to dissolve the National Assembly, some still lost more than others. It is high time that the tenant of the Elysée and the troops of the former presidential majority came out of denial and recognized an incontestable reality: the desire for alternation which was expressed at the polls. Because this is indeed the message of the French who then mobilized massively to prevent the far right from coming to power, in a dynamic where the New Popular Front (NFP) had a major role.
While the NFP is the bloc which had obtained the most deputies, Emmanuel Macron chose, three months ago, to circumvent this reality by betting, in a pas de deux with LR, on a “common base” which could only hold by counting on the leniency of the RN. Basically a way of not losing control, even if it means allying with a political force which had not called for the Republican blockade, but which took advantage of it, while seeking to attract the good graces of the extreme right , but at no time those of the left. We know the rest. The security budget
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