{"id":376210,"date":"2024-07-08T11:31:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T09:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/07\/08\/francia-elezioni-sinistra-macron\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T13:32:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T11:32:11","slug":"france-averts-the-far-right-nightmare-and-suddenly-finds-itself-on-the-left-but-a-broad-alliance-is-needed-to-govern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/07\/08\/france-averts-the-far-right-nightmare-and-suddenly-finds-itself-on-the-left-but-a-broad-alliance-is-needed-to-govern\/","title":{"rendered":"France averts the far-right nightmare and suddenly finds itself on the left. But a broad alliance is needed to govern"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – A month passed with the nightmare of handing Parliament over to the far right, and suddenly, France woke up today (July 8) with\u00a0the leftist coalition of the New Popular Front (NFP) claiming the government<\/strong>. The Republican bloc has held up: appeals to\u00a0withdraw<\/a>\u00a0to block the National Rally (RN) worked: in the second round of the legislative elections, the opposite occurred, with the radical left winning 182 seats, the presidential alliance Ensemble 168, overtaking Marine Le Pen and her allies, who won 143 seats.<\/p>\n

It is a scenario that marks a new chapter in the history of the Fifth Republic: despite having averted the possibility of an uncomfortable cohabitation between Emmanuel Macron and a far-right government, no bloc has the numbers – 289 parliamentary seats – to govern alone<\/strong>. So, the parties of the two largest coalitions, NFP and Ensemble, will have to roll up their sleeves, set up a broad\u00a0alliance, and learn to negotiate on a case-by-case basis. The President of the Republic, who has often enjoyed vast prerogatives, will now have to deal with a Parliament that is no longer his backyard.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced that he will submit his resignation to Macron<\/strong> today but will ferry the executive “as long as duty requires.” Now begins the time for consultations between the parties and between them and the President of the Republic, with the latter, however, also the leader of one of the political formations necessarily involved, Renaissance.<\/p>\n

The New Popular Front already claimed the role of Prime Minister since it won\u00a014 more seats than the Presidential alliance. A potentially much broader\u00a0gap if the leftist coalition had not withdrawn more than 140 candidates from the second round to bar Le Pen’s way.\u00a0Emmanuel Macron “<\/em><\/i>has a duty to call the New Popular Front to govern,”<\/strong><\/i>\u00a0\u00a0said the leader of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon<\/strong> after the first estimates of the results.<\/p>\n

The NFP-Ensemble Broad\u00a0Camp. The left will propose a\u00a0candidate to become Prime Minister this week<\/h3>\n

In the world<\/a> of the French left,\u00a0M\u00e9lenchon’s radical party will still be the most represented in the National Assembly, with 71 seats<\/strong>. But the polls have narrowed\u00a0the distance between La France Insoumise (LFI) and the others: while M\u00e9lenchon will lose four deputies from the 75 elected in 2022, Olivier Faure’s Socialist Party has doubled its MPs from 31 to 64, and the Ecologists led by Marine Tondelier will increase its specific weight, from 21 to 33 seats. Further behind is the Communist Party, which elected 9 MPs.<\/p>\n

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Founder of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon, celebrates in Paris, 7\/7\/24 (Photo by Sameer Al-Doumy \/ AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While Manon Aubry<\/strong>, an MEP for LFI and Co-President of the European Left group, said on Franceinfo that “there is a possibility that the Prime Minister will come from the ranks of her party,” coalition leaders\u00a0announced that they would present a shared candidacy for the role of Prime Minister within the week. In the morning, Aubry sounded the alarm against “the\u00a0Macronists who seem to want to reject the verdict of the polls<\/strong>” and the nomination of an NFP Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The truth is that within the hypothetical broad alliance ranging from the Communists and LFI to the center-right of Horizons – whose leader, Edouard Philippe, declared before the second round that he would refuse to vote for the radical left as an anti-RN function – the party that will count the most deputies is once again Renaissance<\/strong>. It is Macron’s revenge after being criticized for calling early elections that could have sanctioned the victory of the far right, but in the end, still firmly at the center of any eventual government project. The President’s Party won 98 seats,<\/strong> the Democratic Movement 34, and Horizon 26 in the centrist coalition.<\/p>\n

\u00a0In a lengthy post<\/a> on X, the President of the Renew Group in the European Parliament, Valerie Hayer<\/strong>, vindicated, “Our political family will be one of the essential pillars in building tomorrow’s majority projects<\/strong>.” A clear warning to the left. Because if “no bloc will have a majority alone,” French politics will have to start “working differently” to “overcome differences to offer a way forward for the country.” A practice distant from the French\u00a0political culture but well-established in the European Parliament, where “we build ambitious compromises every day to write laws useful to our fellow citizens throughout Europe,” Hayer continued. If NFP and Ensemble can\u00a0not agree on the Prime Minister and the\u00a0cabinet portfolios, they could play the card of a technical government, also foreign to French parliamentary history.<\/p>\n

The shock of the Rassemblement National, Le Pen: “Victory is only postponed”<\/h3>\n

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Marine Le Pen (RN) comments the results of legislative elections, 7\/7\/24 (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF \/ AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
On the other side of the National Assembly will sit\u00a0the 126 deputies of the National Rally<\/strong>, plus the 17 Republicans who tore with the party and chose to ally with Le Pen. They will be the largest group but do not have the numbers to propose a government. Isolated by the ‘cordon sanitaire,’ the only political affinities they have\u00a0are with the rest of the Republicans and the moderate right, which, however, won 66 seats in the second round. With the 143 from RN, that makes 209. Too little. A shock after the 33 percent in the\u00a0first round<\/a> and predictions that it\u00a0could achieve an absolute majority in Parliament.<\/div>\n
Le Pen’s dauphin, Jordan Bardella, pointed his finger at the “alliance of dishonor”\u00a0<\/strong>between the left and Macron. The man who dreamed of becoming Prime Minister at 28 promised that “everything starts tonight,” that the National Rally\u00a0is the “only alternative to the single party” and the “electoral agreements orchestrated by the Elysee.” The historic RN leader, daughter of then Front National founder Jean Marie Le Pen, said, “Our victory is only postponed.” Marine Le Pen<\/strong>, already a candidate and defeated in the 2017 and 2022 Presidential elections, is aiming for those of 2027 when Macron can no longer run\u00a0and when three years of a broad\u00a0alliance in the National Assembly may have further worn out the patience of the French people.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the second round of legislative elections, the reversal takes place: the New Popular Front wins 182 seats, the Presidential Alliance 168, the National Rally and its allies 143. No bloc gets an absolute majority in the National Assembly. the left announces, “Within the week a candidate for Prime Minister.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":376163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[26261,28339],"class_list":["post-376210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-elections-legislative-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376210"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376974,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376210\/revisions\/376974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}