Open letter from the President Emmanuel Macron to the French of France profound, sent not by chance through provincial journalists and not through the main national newspapers. Yesterday the President, who is busy in Washington at the summit of NATO, made his voice heard for the first time afterwards the surprising result of last Sunday's ballots which marked the clear defeat of the far right of Marine Le Pen, the recovery of the center and the leap forward of Popular Front, who was the most voted but who alone does not have the strength to form a new majority.
Macron, what he said in the letter to the French
With realism, Macron recalled that the French opposed the victory of the far right but that of the three major poles emerging from the elections none have the numbers to form the new Government on their own. For this reason the President called for dialogue and willingness to compromise to form "one solid and necessarily plural majority".
One way of saying that the most linear solution to give a Government to France is that of an agreement between the liberal democratic center area and the Popular Front or at least a large part of it. The opposite of what he had claimed on Sunday, a minute after the polls closed, the left-wing populist Jean-Luc Mélenchon who had ruled out agreements with the Macronians and put forward programmatic proposals that would unleash the storm on the financial markets but who had not taken into account the numbers.
Macron and the numbers of the Popular Front
The Popular Front has in fact collected 180 seats, of which only 71 belong to Mélenchon's La France Insoumise, but the required parliamentary majority is 289 seats. Therefore either the Popular Front will reach an agreement with the Macronians or its victory will be a Pyrrhic one. But something is moving in the Front and few are willing to follow Mélenchon's maximalism. This is why Macron invites France's first and second political forces to dialogue to seek a compromise and a government agreement. If they reach him, Macron will give the job of prime minister to a personality of this government balance which today appears to be the most realistic solution, even if the former Macronian Eduard Philippe continues to propose a centre-right government which however would not have the numbers to form.
