2024-07-08 08:29:35
French Prime Minister Gabriel Atal has announced that he plans to resign after the victory of the left in the elections.
The alliance of left-wing parties, the New People’s Front, which unites the socialists, the left-wing extremist party “Disobedient France”, the communists and the greens, won 182 seats in the National Assembly. The absolute majority would be 289 seats.
Macron’s centrist camp won 168 seats, while the far-right National Union (RN) got 143 seats, which is much less than expected after the party’s victory in the first round on June 30.
Voters across France and overseas territories could vote in the second round for 501 of the 577 seats in the National Assembly, the most important of France’s two houses of parliament. The remaining 76 mandates were won already in the first round of voting, a third of them were won by RN.
Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leader of the far-left Insurgent France (LFI), the leading force in the New Popular Front (NFP), said it was “ready to govern”.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said the election had laid the foundations for “tomorrow’s victory”.
“The wave is rising,” she said. “It wasn’t high enough this time.”
“The reality is that our victory is only postponed,” she added.
Le Pen’s protégé, 28-year-old National Union leader Jordans Bardella, who hoped to become prime minister, lamented that the outcome of the vote “throws France into the hands of the extreme left”.
Macron indicated that he would not rush to invite the potential prime minister to form a government. He will wait until the new National Assembly is formed before “taking the necessary decisions”.
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2024-07-08 08:29:35