Legislative: Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the Nupes savor “the total rout of the presidential party”

Jean-Luc Mélenchon did not hide his joy on Sunday evening. Although he did not obtain a majority allowing him to become Prime Minister, the leader of the Nupes welcomed the results making his coalition the first opposition group. “We succeeded!” Jean-Luc Mélenchon will not be Prime Minister but he still has a smile, after legislative elections which allowed the Nupes (New popular ecological and social union) to rise as the main opposition force with 168 to 188 deputies, according to our Elabe projection for BFMTV. “It’s a totally unexpected situation, absolutely unheard of. The rout of the presidential party is total and no majority arises”, rejoiced the leader of this news political alliance during his speech on Sunday evening.”Moral failure” of Macronie “We observe that once again we have been underestimated before, and less during”, he exclaimed again in the face of his supporters, before castigating the “moral failure” of Macronie “who constantly lectured everyone and who claimed to be the dam on the far right and whose main result was to have reinforced its ranks “.”We succeeded!”, Continued the former deputy of the Bouches -du-Rhône, specifying that his message was “a combat message”. “We have achieved the political objective that we had set ourselves: to bring down the one who had so much arrogance had twisted the arm of the whole country by being elected without anyone knowing what to do”. At the end of his legislative elections, the left achieved a strong breakthrough and the Rassemblement national a historic score. With 210 to 230 possible deputies in the Assemblies, the Macron camp comes first, but very far from the absolute majority and many of its executives – Richard Ferrand, Christophe Castaner – are beaten.Jeanne Bulant Journalist BFMTV