“When historians look at the dissolution, they will only have one word: disaster! We could not imagine it 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!”
Same observation for Stéphane Vergeade in La Montagne: “It is understood that Emmanuel Macron lost his bet, launched in the solitude of a Sunday evening whose motives remain misunderstood, for a long time”.
“To his claim to embody the only alternative to ‘chaos’, writes Dov Alfon, in Libération, the French responded by holding him responsible for this chaos; to his plea for a clear majority ‘to act in serenity and peace concorde’, they inflicted on him an additional torture of isolation”.
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“Clarification was widely desired throughout the debates. There was clarification, and not just a little. France is waking up to the unprecedented face-off between the two extremes,” Patrice Chabanet said in the Journal de la Haute-Marne.
In the Latest News from Alsace, Pascal Coquis even sees “the end of macronism”. “That the party in power pays 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 obscured,” says -he.
It is indeed “the end of an era”, headline on the front page of Les Echos.
But now a decisive week of political negotiations begins. “After the shock, unite”, headlines Libération on the front page, emphasizing that “only a republican roadblock will be able to avoid the worst”.
On July 7, “it is a question of choosing between the worst and the least worst, it is a question, when going to the polls, of keeping in mind what history teaches us about the extreme right and the damage it causes wherever it settles”, Olivier Biscaye emphasizes in Midi Libre.
“This reality is not anecdotal. It should at the very least generate a burst of unity and perspective, a burst of coherence and exemplarity,” he continues.
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But for Alexis Brézet in Le Figaro, “between Bardella and Mélenchon, who, in conscience, will want to put an equal sign?”. “The RN program is, certainly, in many ways worrying, but on the other hand: anti-Semitism, Islamo-leftism, class hatred, tax hysteria…”, he asserts.
“France has reached a tipping point,” writes Stéphane Vergeade in La Montagne, and “the coming week is unlike any other. It places us face to face with ourselves. The moment demands clear choices and words.”
“From this disorder a majority that lives up to the values of the Republic can still emerge,” believes Séverin Husson in La Croix.
But Emmanuel Macron “has thrown France into a hellish whirlwind” and 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.
