This is a first since the establishment of the five-year term in 2002. The presidential coalition won only a relative majority in the National Assembly after the second round of legislative elections, Sunday June 19, according to the first estimates.
Together ! obtains 224 seats, according to the first Ipsos-Sopra Steria estimates for France Télévisions, Radio France, France 24-RFI-MCD and LCP-National Assembly. Far from the 289 deputies necessary for an absolute majority. La République en Marche (LRM) and its allies only managed to elect 154 deputies, whereas the LRM parliamentary group had 262 deputies in the ending legislature.
The presidential majority is followed by the left-wing union of the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), which won 149 seats, including 86 for La France insoumise (LFI). The National Rally (RN) achieved a historic breakthrough by having 89 deputies elected in this new Assembly and became, outside the coalition, the opposition party with the most elected members.
For the first time in a majority vote under the Ve République, the far-right party also exceeds the threshold of 15 deputies necessary for the constitution of a parliamentary group, which will allow it to weigh more in the authorities of the Palais-Bourbon and legislative work. The only precedent dates from 1986, when the National Front had managed to have a group of thirty-five deputies, elected during the only elections organized by proportional representation.
On the right, the group Les Républicains loses 22 seats (78 deputies against 100 in the outgoing Assembly) but avoids the catastrophe announced for the party after the score of Valérie Pécresse in the presidential election. It could even be an auxiliary force for the presidential camp during the study of bills.
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During this second round, fifteen ministers played their place in the government, Emmanuel Macron having warned that all those who would not be elected should resign. On Sunday morning, the Secretary of State for the Sea, Justine Benin, was beaten in the 2e constituency of Guadeloupe, with 41.35% of the vote, by Christian Baptiste (DVG), supported by Nupes, elected with 58.65%.
According to the first estimates, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, was elected in the 6e constituency of Calvados against the candidate of Nupes, Noé Gauchard. The results of the Minister for Ecological Transition, Amélie de Montchalin, the Minister of the Public Service, Stanislas Guerini, or even the Minister Delegate for Europe, Clément Beaune, are particularly awaited.
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