Pak Sahafat – France’s 2022 parliamentary elections ended with the historic defeat of President Emmanuel Macron in a landslide victory to define a vague outlook for his political power and a dead end for France’s democratic future.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency, according to preliminary results, Macron’s supporters of the “Together” 210 to 250 seats, the “Nops” coalition of Jean-Luc Melenchon supporters to 150 to 180 seats, the Republicans 60 to 70 seats and the far-right National Assembly party that Marin Lou It is led by Penn, who won 80 to 100 seats, while the French president needed 289 seats to win an absolute majority in the National Assembly.
According to current statistics, three Macron ministers have been appointed so far, including Amélie de Montchalin, Minister for Environmental Transfer and Territorial Cohesion, Essonn’s Sixth Constituency candidate, and Brigitte Bourguignon, Minister Health and Prevention the candidate for the sixth constituency, Pas-de-Calais, and the Minister for Maritime Affairs, Justine Benin, have also failed to win in the constituency of Guadeloupe 2, and the number of ministers who may Similar conditions are increasing.
Macron has previously called on ministers who fail to win parliamentary elections to leave the cabinet. Fifteen Macron ministers, including French Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne, have been nominated for parliamentary elections.
This is the first time that the president has failed to win an absolute majority in the four parliamentary elections since the French presidential election. In other words, in the past, the French National Assembly elections not only confirmed but also confirmed the victory of the figure that entered the Elysee; Conditions that did not materialize this year.
Achieving today’s results means that Macron will inevitably have to ally with other parties to advance his goals, which will reduce the government’s political power and bargaining power.
According to estimates released by opinion polls, the number of abstentions in the election reached 54 percent, or about 26.3 million French people, as last week, who recorded a record of abstentions in the first round with 52.49 percent. In this round, too, they avoided the ballot boxes.
Melancholy is the strongest opposition to Macron
Le Figaro reported that initial estimates suggested that a coalition of Macron supporters should merge with the Republicans in the National Assembly, and that the left-wing coalition led by Melanchon would now emerge as the first opposition force against the executive branch.
After the official announcement of the election results, Melenchon greeted the “complete defeat of the presidential party” with irony, saying: “There is no majority and France has shown itself.”
He added: The level of abstention is still very high, which means that a large part of France does not know where to join.
The leader of the “Invincible France” party, which now leads the so-called “Noupes” coalition, added: “The defeat of Macron’s supporters is a moral defeat for those who taught everyone. They strengthened the ranks of the National Assembly Party (far right led by Marine Le Pen).
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“I’m changing my combat position,” he said. “Tomorrow you may wake up with the majority as the first political force.”
Macron becomes a minority president without power
On the other hand, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Assembly party, went beyond imagination and won 80 to 100 seats, the largest parliamentary group in the party’s history in the political family.
Welcoming the results, Le Pen said: The people decided to send a very powerful parliamentary group of members of the National Assembly to the parliament.
He added: “This group will be by far the largest group in the history of our political family.”
He called for a political reshuffle for democratic modernization, defining it as a strategy of forming a strong opposition group against the deconstructors from above, the “macronists” and from below, the “novices”.
Minister of Economy: We are facing a democratic shock
“We are facing a democratic shock due to the very strong pressure of the National Assembly,” said the French economy minister, expressing concern over the election results on France 2 television.
Bruno Lumière calls for the mobilization of forces that want to rule with a majority.
Minister of Solidarity: Do not paralyze the country
“We need a majority to act, not to paralyze,” said Damien Abad, Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy and People with Disabilities, who has been facing moral charges in recent weeks.
“We need a majority tonight to act and we [should not] cripple the country,” he said, winning Sunday’s parliamentary election in the fifth constituency of Ain.
The significance of this election for Macron was that if his party had an overwhelming majority in parliament, it could have paved the way for the implementation of its plans in the second five years of his presidency.