The French President, Emmanuel Macron, has suffered a severe setback after losing control of the National Assembly in Sunday’s legislative elections. His defeat threatens the political stability of the country. Macron’s group won 245 seats out of 577, losing the absolute majoritybut managed to keep the largest block. Initial projections by pollsters Ifop, OpinionWay, Elabe […]
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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 […]
French PM: Government to reach out to potential partners to secure parliamentary support
LAST UPDATE: 23.59 French Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne said tonight that her government would “get to work” from tomorrow Monday to reach out to potential partners to secure a majority in parliament and ensure the stability of the eurozone’s second-largest economy. “I have confidence in all of us and in our sense of responsibility,” Bourne […]
Al. Tsipras: Macron defeat is defeat of his neoliberal policy – Hope the strong strengthening of the Left
“The defeat of Macron is a defeat of his n / f policy. Hope is the strong strengthening of the Left. Danger is the Far Right and abstention”, noted via Twitter the president of SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance, Alexis Tsipras, in the aftermath of the parliamentary elections in France, with exit polls showing Macron losing […]
Lepen wants to unite all the ‘patriots’, including the left
LAST UPDATE: 22.20 The leader of France’s far-right Rassemblement National party, Marine Le Pen, has said she will try to unite all “patriots on both the right and the left” after her party achieved more than expected success in the French parliamentary elections. Reuters agency. “The people have decided to send a strong National Alarm […]
Parliamentary elections in France: The Minister of Health is not elected, based on the first results
LAST UPDATE: 21.44 Health Minister Brigitte Bourguignon is expected to lose her seat in parliament, the French television channel France 2 TV reported, citing estimates of the results. Traditionally, ministers who fail to get elected are called upon to resign from the government. National Assembly Speaker and former Interior Minister Christoph Castaner not elected MPs […]
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 […]
The heat of southern Europe is being transferred to Germany and Switzerland
The heatwave that has plagued southern and western Europe for many days, with extreme temperatures and forest fires such as those in Spain and near Berlin, is now moving towards eastern France and Switzerland. In northern Germany, the worst seems to have happened but the rest of the country is “still sweating”, according to the […]
France – Parliamentary elections: First Melanson in the overseas departments – Macron is not elected Undersecretary
LAST UPDATE: 19.04 A first, albeit peculiar, taste of election results arrived in France from its overseas departments – where the polls have already closed – and in particular Guadeloupe, Martinique and Guyana. Apartments with strong peculiarities and local electoral combinations, which generally lean to the left, after in the first round of the presidential […]
