Emmanuel Macron had gotten used to the planets lining up in front of him. But at the start of the second five-year term, nothing is going as planned. After a re-election without panache, where the audacity of the Head of State seems to have given way to doubt, the tenant of the Elysée Palace begins his second term like a way of the cross, laborious, imprecise and strewn with trials.
The first hurdle to overcome, after his failure in the legislative elections, Sunday, June 19, is to wrest a majority in the National Assembly. To achieve this, the President of the Republic, who had promised during a recent Council of Ministers to abandon his panoply of “Jupiter” for that of Hephaestus, the god of the forge, gets to work. Only.
Two days after the parliamentary election, which offered only a very relative majority to the presidential camp, Emmanuel Macron began the talks by receiving at the Elysée, one after the other, the representatives of the major political forces.
After Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS) and Christian Jacob, boss of the Les Républicains (LR) party, came the turn of François Bayrou, his ally at the head of the MoDem, Stanislas Guérini, general delegate of the presidential party La République en Marche (LRM), by Marine Le Pen, for the National Rally (RN), and finally by Fabien Roussel, for the Communist Party (PCF). A marathon interrupted by the visit of NATO Secretary General Jens Soltenberg.
On Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron was to welcome another ally, Edouard Phillipe, his former prime minister, today at the head of the Horizons party, as well as Julien Bayou, representative of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, and, finally, the representatives of La France insoumise (LFI), Mathilde Panot and Adrien Quatennens. Jean-Luc Mélenchon seeming to gradually fade away in favor of his young guard.
Three scenarios
The challenge for Emmanuel Macron is to identify a little more than forty deputies “constructive” likely to vote on the texts presented by the government. A ” hand held out “, we explain at the Elysée to appeal to the responsibility of the parties, in the name of the higher interest of the nation, in order to avoid the blocking of the country. A dramatization that has become customary at the top of the state.
After the confusion linked to the remarks made on Monday by the deputy (LRM) of Hauts-de-Seine, Céline Calvez, affirming “when we need to have a majority and if it’s good for the French, we’ll get those votes [celles du RN] » and those of the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti suggesting that the presidential majority could “to move forward together” with the far-right formation, red lines have been drawn: out of the question to seal a government agreement or a pact with the party of Marine Le Pen or with LFI, two formations fought vehemently during these legislative elections.
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