French President Emmanuel Macron has suffered a major blow to the political scene, but may still face a triple race as an informal European leader, not only because of his position, but mainly because of the weakness of German and Italian leaders, the agency notes. Reuters. Still, just as he needs to learn new bargaining […]
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Poll: Seven out of ten French people rejoice that Macron did not win an absolute majority
According to a poll conducted for a French television station, about 7 out of 10 French people are happy that the re-elected President of the Republic Emanuel Macron did not win the absolute parliamentary majority in June, considering that this is “good for democracy”. Also 43% believe that the far right Marin Le Pen better […]
Republicans rule out ‘coalition’ with Macron’s faction
The Republicans, France’s traditional right-wing party, today ruled out allying with President Emanuel Macron’s centrists or concluding a co-operation agreement following Sunday’s parliamentary elections, in which no faction secured an absolute majority in the National Assembly. With the exception of a few cases, Republican lawmakers meeting today to discuss the election result have already rejected […]
France: Jean-Luc Melanson calls on PM to ask for vote of confidence from National Assembly
French Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne must abide by tradition and ask for a vote of confidence in the newly elected National Assembly, left-wing leader Jean-Luc Melanson said today, noting that the government no longer has a majority. “Bourne will be defeated,” he said. Melanson also told reporters that the parties forming the left-wing Nupes alliance […]
France: Reprimand against E. Bourne’s government by the Melanson bloc on July 5
LAST UPDATE: 13.36 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 […]
France: Criticism of E. Bourne’s government by Melanson’s bloc
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 […]
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 […]