– Coalition or opposition: how parties organize themselves
If a popular front is mobilizing on the left, the right and far-right parties have not yet given their roadmap for the elections of June 30 and July 7.
Published today at 9:33 a.m.
French President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the National Assembly this Sunday, after his party’s setback in the European elections.
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French President Emmanuel Macron holds a press conference on Tuesday, two days after the announcement of early legislative elections which took the political class by surprise and triggered a race for alliances on the right and the left.
19 days before the first round – the shortest campaign in the history of the Fifth Republic – the head of state returns to the exercise of the high mass of questions and answers with journalists, a way of appearing as the true leader of a majority in great danger.
According to a Harris Interactive-Toluna poll published on Monday, the National Rally (RN), the far-right party which won the European elections on Sunday in France, is credited with 34% of voting intentions for the first round on June 30. Which would allow him, according to the institute, to obtain a relative majority in the National Assembly during the second round a week later, with 235 to 265 deputies out of 577.
The Macronists, with 19%, could only count on 125 to 155 seats.
The LR in a hurry to make a decision against the RN
The president of Hauts-de-France Xavier Bertrand called on Tuesday the boss of LR Éric Ciotti to clarify the party’s position vis-à-vis the RN, deploring the fact that the call for a “rally” launched by Marine Le Pen did not been rejected again.
“We owe the truth to our voters,” said Mr. Bertrand on -. “It is this morning that there must be this clarification, once and for all,” he added.
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The RN “will support” candidates “from the Republicans”
The president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, affirmed Tuesday that “in the candidates that (his) political movement will support” in the early legislative elections of June 30, “there will also be people from the Republicans”.
“I call on the Republicans to stop being Emmanuel Macron’s political crutch,” he declared on RTL, assuring “to reach out” to the members of LR while warning that “there will be no no agreement between political parties.
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A single “popular front” on the left
On the left, the cards were reshuffled Monday evening: the Socialist Party, the communists, the ecologists and the radical left formation La France Insoumise (LFI) called in a press release for “the constitution of a popular front” and indicated that they wanted “support unique candidates from the first round” of the legislative elections.
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They again called for people to “join the processions” planned for this weekend at the call of the main unions and to “demonstrate widely”.
The announcement was made as a few hundred young demonstrators, coming from a rally against the far right at Place de la République, arrived under the windows of the Parisian headquarters of environmentalists where the various left-wing leaders had met. in the afternoon.
“Diet crisis”
The Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, pledged on Tuesday that the French’s electricity bill would fall by 10 to 15% in February 2025 thanks in particular to nuclear production, denouncing the energy strategy of the National gathering.
“The electricity bill of each French person will drop by 10 to 15% in February 2025. This is the commitment I am making this morning,” Mr. Le Maire declared on BFMTV/RMC. “Because we have restarted nuclear power. Because we invested in renewables. Because we believe in the independence of France and its energy independence, unlike the National Rally which puts us hand and foot in the hands of the Gulf countries and Russia,” he added.
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Bruno Le Maire also warned on Tuesday of a possible “regime crisis” if no “clear majority” emerges from the anticipated legislative elections organized following the dissolution of the National Assembly by Emmanuel Macron.
“Either there is a clear majority, or indeed we run the risk of a regime crisis,” declared Mr. Le Maire on BFMTV/RMC, responding to the question of whether France could become ungovernable in the absence of absolute majority, with the possibility of a new presidential election. “What is at stake in a few weeks is the future of the French nation,” he added.
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