Absolute majority for Macron in the legislative elections? The French in doubt – EXCLUSIVE – The HuffPost

via Associated PressEXCLUSIVE – Only 3 out of 10 French people believe that Macron will have an absolute majority of deputies in the AssemblyPOLITICS – There is some doubt. After a sluggish start to the five-year term, marked by the multiplication of embarrassing controversies and a form of procrastination at the highest peak of the state, Macronie passes the second in this campaign for the legislative elections… Five days from the first round. Accused of wanting to anesthetize the debate, Emmanuel Macron descends into the arena and prepares to chain express trips, while the government, Elisabeth Borne in the lead, multiplies announcements on health or purchasing power. One way to respond to criticism and occupy the media field at a time when the lights seem to turn orange, or pale green. Latest bad news for the Head of State and his troops: only 3 French out of 10 believe that he will be able to count on an absolute majority in the National Assembly on June 19, according to a recent YouGov poll carried out for Le HuffPost on June 6 and 7. Macron’s voters confident, not those of MélenchonWhat to cause cold sweats in Macronie? According to our survey, supporters of the President of the Republic remain generally very confident. Only 13% of MoDem and LREM voters fear that the head of state will not have an absolute majority at the Palais Bourbon, when the figure rises to 44% among all French people. In detail, only 31% of those polled, all tendencies combined, actually think that Emmanuel Macron will get these famous 289 deputies. The threshold to reach to have completely free hands in the National Assembly. A sign of the doubt – or lack of interest – that runs through the population before the election, 25% say they do not know. These figures should be compared with those of other pollsters. If Emmanuel Macron’s candidates win in terms of seat projection in the various surveys, the certainty for them of obtaining an absolute majority does indeed tend to crumble. Question of voting intentions, the two coalitions (Ensemble! and NUPES) are neck and neck today, as you can see below. So many data that could have satisfied the NUPES and its leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who hammers his ambition to replace Elisabeth Borne by imposing cohabitation on the President of the Republic. But it is clear that if the French are not sure to see Emmanuel Macron achieve his ends, they are even more skeptical about the hypothesis of seeing the leader of the Insoumis enter Matignon. And this, despite the campaign, also punctuated by controversy, led with a bang by the third man in the presidential election. According to our study, 68% of those polled believe that the 70-year-old tribune cannot become Prime Minister. They are only 22% to believe in his victory. More difficult still, even the voters of the New People’s Ecological and Social Union are not really optimistic. According to our YouGov survey, 47% (versus 46) of voters close to this alliance of the main left-wing parties believe that the step is too high. Survey carried out from June 6 to 7, 2022 among 1,030 people representative of the national population aged 18 and over, according to the quota method. In partnership with: