Legislative elections: what to remember from the results of the second round

Published on: 06/19/2022 – 21:42 Relative majority for the presidential party, push of the Nupes, breakthrough of the far right, government promised to reshuffle… Find here what to remember from the second round of legislative elections. For Emmanuel Macron’s party, victory tastes like defeat. The Together! came out on top on Sunday June 19, according to the first estimates of the second round of the legislative elections, but very far from an absolute majority. Two months after his re-election, the head of state, who had repeatedly urged the French to give him “a strong and clear majority” was not heard. Here is what to remember from this election.>> To read: Legislative live: no absolute majority for E. Macron, the left 2nd, strong breakthrough of the RN No absolute majority for the presidential party The macronist coalition, Together !, largely lost the absolute majority of 289 seats in the National Assembly after the second round of legislative elections against the United Left Alliance, Nupes, which became the main opposition and a very strong breakthrough by the Rassemblement national, according to the first estimates of the pollsters. Nupes becomes the first opposition force The left-wing coalition, Nupes, led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon comes second. The group resulting from the agreement between La France insoumise, the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and the ecologists, would obtain, according to Ipsos / Sopra Steria for France 24, 149 seats. Other polling institutes place the Nupes between 150 to 180 elected according to Ifop, between 160 and 200 for Opinionway and between 170 and 190 for Elabe. Huge breakthrough for the far right The National Rally has meanwhile achieved a historic breakthrough by obtaining a very large group of 85 deputies according to Ipsos / Sopra Steria. The other polling institutes place it between 60 and 100 deputies. proportionally (35 deputies). The leader of the party, Marine Le Pen, was pleased to have in the Assembly the group “by far the most numerous in the history of our political family”, which will ensure “a firm opposition” but “respectful of the institutions”. “The French people have decided to send a very powerful parliamentary group of deputies from the National Rally to the National Assembly, which thus becomes a little more national, this group will be by far the most numerous in the history of our political family”, she underlined, herself re-elected in Pas-de-Calais. The interim president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, meanwhile hailed a “tsunami “for his party. © Graphic studio France Medias World The Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, elected in Calvados The head of government was elected deputy for Calvados with 52.46% of the vote against a 22-year-old Nupes-LFI.Élisabeth Borne submitted for the first time at the ballot box in the heart of Normandy, in the 6th district of Calvados. In 2017, the outgoing LREM Alain Tourret was re-elected there with 68.34% of the vote against a National Front candidate. Is she in the hot seat? No one, in the majority, imagined his departure before Sunday evening, as the symbolism of a head of government landed barely a month after his appointment seemed disastrous to public opinion. The government promised a reshuffle In view of the results, the Borne government, formed on May 20, already seems promised a reshuffle. Some of its members, unsuccessful legislative candidates, have automatically resigned according to a tacit rule imposed by the Élysée. This is particularly the case of the Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, and the Secretary of State for the Sea, Justine Benin, both beaten. The outgoing President of the Assembly, Richard Ferrand, is also beaten, just like Christophe Castaner, the outgoing president of the LREM group or the former minister Bérangère Abba. The members of the government Olivier Dussopt, Damien Abad, Marc Fesneau, Gérald Darmanin and Franck Riester were however re-elected deputies. >> To read: Elections legislative elections: uneven results for those close to Emmanuel Macron Bruno le Maire calls for dialogue and compromise The Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, has launched an appeal “for everyone’s sense of responsibility” to that the National Assembly is not ungovernable, at the end of the second round of the legislative elections. “I call for everyone’s sense of responsibility, we must avoid blockage”, he declared on France 2, calling to “dialogue”, “listen”, “take e n consideration “the ideas” of the men and women who find themselves in the project of the President of the Republic”. With AFP and Reuters