LAST UPDATE: 15.54 The left-wing political coalition New Ecological and Social Popular Union (NUPES), led by Jean-Luc Melanson, which unites most of the Left and the Greens in France, as well as the center-left Socialist Party, will file a motion of censure against the government of the Prime Minister of France, Elizabeth Bourne, on July […]
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France: A National Assembly that is not meant to last long
By Costas Raptis “The situation is unprecedented. The National Assembly has never had such a correlation under the Fifth French Republic.” re-elected President Emanuel Macron. The result is not surprising, to the extent that already on the night of Macron’s election victory the French appeared in the polls to prefer a 54% “cohabitation”, ie a […]
Parliamentary elections in France: 5 things worth keeping in mind
Two months after the re-election of Emanuel Macron, the French president’s faction comes out of the second round of parliamentary elections held yesterday Sunday: it will be deprived of the absolute majority in the National Assembly and will be faced with a “tsunami”, according to Mar. Lepen, the unprecedented advance of the far right. Here […]
Parliamentary elections in France: Macron’s dilemmas
LAST UPDATE: 08.24 The most serious problem of the President of France Emanuel Macron does not lie in the fact that in the end he will not be himself, as he hoped, the first head of state who would be able to rule for two terms without being forced to live together. It lies in […]
France’s parliamentary elections: Macron loses absolute majority – ‘Political earthquake’ since Le Pen rise
LAST UPDATE: 22.54 The faction close to President Emanuel Macron came in first in today’s second round of parliamentary elections in France, but all estimates put it far from the 289 seats out of the 577 required for an absolute majority. According to the latest estimates of the television station BFM, the faction adjacent to […]
Bloomberg: Macron adopts ominous tone before key vote
French President Emmanuel Macron and his proxies have adopted a revealing tone in the last week of the run-up to the run-off election, saying the country faces chaos if it does not hand over an absolute majority on Sunday. The 44-year-old centrist even found a year before an official visit to Eastern Europe to discuss […]
France – Today the second round of parliamentary elections: Macron is chasing autonomy, Melanson is prime minister
While Saturday’s newspapers covered primarily the death of Jean-Louis Trentinian and, secondarily, the election, the French are called today, for the fourth time in ten weeks, to go to the polls, this time to elect their 577 deputies. However, more than half of the voters – about 25 million – do not seem willing to […]
France: Absolute parliamentary majority is a difficult equation for Macron
A few hours before the end of the election campaign in view of the second round of the parliamentary elections in France, the latest polls come to the same conclusions as the previous ones. Emanuel Macron, who won the presidential election in April, will come first in the parliamentary elections the day after tomorrow, but […]
Ukraine: Macron, Solz and Draghi return to Poland after visit to Kyiv
The three European leaders Emanuel Macron, Olaf Solz and Mario Draghi arrived in Peremisl, Poland by special train this morning after their visit yesterday, Thursday, in Kyiv, a journalist of the French Agency found. An hour before the train arrived at the Polish-Ukrainian border, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi visited the French president’s wagon for […]
Macron: ‘Ukraine will decide whether to make territorial concessions to Russia’
In these difficult times for the Ukrainian people, the task of France and Europe is to tell the Ukrainians that we are here by your side. This was stated by French President Emanuel Macron in an interview given today by Ukraine to the French television station TF1. Asked if he wished Russia a military defeat, […]