Twist in France: la left triumphs on the ballot legislative elections, with Jean-Luc melenchon who immediately tries to claim leadership of the government. Emmanuel Macron and its outgoing majority exceedRn di Marine Le Pen, the great defeat. And now? Government risk, we are moving towards a centre-oriented coalition. The French Prime Minister Attal announced that he will present his resignation today. And so, yesterday London, today Paris: in both cases the electorate, with a decidedly high turnout (66,6 % on the ballot in France), wanted to put a stop to extremist temptations.
France, here are the final results
Il New popular front, the left-wing alliance that was formed to counter the advance of Rassemblement National in the second round of the French legislative elections, it won the largest number of seats in the next National Assembly, composed in total of 577 deputies. Those of the Nfp will 182. This is what emerges from the definitive data on the elections released by the Ministry of the Interior. The centrist formation in support of President Macron, Together, he got some 168 while the Rassemblement National di Marine Le Pen allied with a part of the Republicans led by the party president Eric Ciotti he is third with 143 elected deputies. According to the newspaper's calculations Le Monde, within the Nouveau Front Populaire, the France insubordinate by Jean-Luc Melenchon, if considered alone, has a representation equal to 74 elected to which are added 3 "dissidents" of the party. The Socialist party will 59 deputies and Ecologists 28. The Communist Party elected 9 parliamentarians e Generation.s he will have it 5.
France, the big defeat is Marine Le Pen
Until yesterday in France we were counting the number of seats missing to the right of Le Pen and Bardella to gain the absolute majority and instead, sensationally, it is the left that triumphs, with the head of La France Insoumise, Mélenchon, claiming the government: "We are ready, Macron recognizes defeat, he has the duty to call the New Popular Front to govern." But Macron and his outgoing majority are not collapsing at all, as expected by many: they even come second in front of the far right of Le Pen's Rassemblement National, the great defeat on Sunday 7 July after the desistance pact signed in recent days against her.
Marine, without her usual smile, arrived in front of the cameras late: “Our victory is only postponed – said the leader of the RN -. The tide is rising, this time it hasn't risen high enough but it continues to rise. I have too much experience to be disappointed by a result in which we double the number of deputies", were her few words on the night that was supposed to mark the triumph and the beginning of the long march towards 2027. The disappointment is great, the surprise is total. However, the left is still around 90 seats short of an absolute majority, therefore the search for a coalition remains fully relevant. The first reaction coming from the Elysée was Macron's claim, for weeks under the fire of 360-degree criticism, of the choice to dissolve the Assemblée Nationale: “The turnout – at a record level of 67% – demonstrates that the French had to express themselves." Immediately afterwards, fromentourage from the president came a call for "prudence", since the results do not guarantee that "a coherent coalition" can be created.
Numbers and data in hand, the Macronian center bloc, at 168, will not make any alliance that includes Mélenchon and the Melenchonians. “This is the question – insists the Elysée – if one coherent coalition it is possible to reach the 289 deputies". An official source from the Elysée clarified that Macron “will wait for the structuring of the new Assemblée Nationale to make the necessary decisions. The president, in his role as guarantor of the institutions, will ensure that the sovereign choice of the French is respected."
Shortly after, he spoke Gabriel Attal, the outgoing prime minister who announced his resignation today, proposing to remain in charge of current affairs and specifying the contours of the now established one rift between him and Macron: “I didn't choose the dissolution of the Assembly – he said –, but I refused to suffer it”. And the result he claimed is that of having "avoided three risks": that "of an absolute majority dominated by La France Insoumise, a majority dominated by the Rassemblement National and the risk of a disappearance of the movement that embodies our ideas and our values ”.
France, government risk: here are the hypotheses
The hypotheses that are taking shape in these hours? A national union government oriented towards center, with the reformists of the left e the Republics, which they got – without Eric Ciotti passed with Le Pen – a flattering result, at over 60 seats. But the left already shows all its profound differences. Thundering in the early hours were the winners of La France Insoumise, the radical left which was now almost certain of remaining out of any agreement, with Mélenchon isolated in opposition. From Manon Aubry a Mathilde Panot a Manuel Bompard, Mélenchon's colonels proclaim theincrease in the minimum wage , retirement at age 60, asking for a common candidate of the left for Matignon. But the people who will probably have a voice in the coming days in the attempt to negotiate the coalition are also making their way with the center and the moderate right, the only viable solution for the government. “Tonight we are in the lead – he said Raphael Glucksmann, which dragged the Socialist Party even further – but faced with a divided Assemblée Nationale we must behave like adults. We need to talk, we need to discuss, we need to dialogue,” she insisted, underlining that “the heart of power has been transferred to the Assemblée Nationale, a change in political culture is necessary”.
France, what Bardella said
On the stage of the Rassemblement headquarters last night, a Jordan Bardella dark-faced for the first time. He immediately denounced the "alliances against nature” between the Macronians and the left, which according to him caused the defeat of his party: “Unfortunately – he said – the alliance of dishonor and the small electoral agreements between Macron and Attal with the far left deprive” the voters of a government of the Rn and "throw France into the arms of Mélenchon". Then he paid homage, with little conviction and unable to smile, "to the dynamics enjoyed by the Rassemblement that brought it to the top in the first round" and still allowed it to obtain a historic number of deputies together with its allies. A small consolation for a party that was uncertain between triumph and simple victory. The glass ceiling that prevents the far right from governing France is now more solid than ever.
France, the left wants to govern: who is Melenchon?
Before other leaders of that alliance could have their say, melenchon he went on stage to ask what it was called to govern the country, thus asking to cash in on the victory that the first polls on the French legislative elections gave to the left of the New Popular Front.
The 72-year-old leader of France Insoumise is a fan of the former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez and the Cuban Fidel Castro e it has always scared markets and investors every time he came close to power. Known for his fiery speeches, often without a teleprompter or notes and using his signature mix of humor and anger, the communist-backed far-left leader often regales crowds with the evils of “extreme markets that transform suffering, misery and abandonment in gold and money." In the past he has referred to France as a country "with enormous, poorly distributed wealth". Formerly deputy minister of the Education Ministry from 2000 to 2002, he broke with the Socialist Party in 2008, saying it was becoming too pro-business. In 2016 he founded France Insoumise and in 2022 he ran for president, for the third time.
A figure considered controversial for some positions and statements that brought him accusations - which he rejected - of anti-Semitism, populism and of promoting conspiracy theories, with the result of the legislative elections Melenchon returned as a protagonist in France, immediately invoking the mandate to form a new government .
Clashes and charges with the police
The celebration for the victory of the left in the legislative elections in France yesterday turned into an evening of clashes and charges between demonstrators, black blocs and policemen in Place de la République in Paris, while incidents were also recorded in other cities of the Country with at least one agent injured by the throwing of a Molotov cocktail.
