a dissolution that hurts Emmanuel Macron

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The president said it again this Tuesday during a trip to the Île de Sein for the commemoration of the appeal of June 18: dissolving the National Assembly was “ the heaviest, most serious solution ” but also “ the most responsible “. There is no question for the Head of State of showing regret or recognizing an error. On the contrary, to hear it, “ without dissolution, it would have been chaos “.

But if ten days after its shock announcement, Emmanuel Macron is still obliged to justify himself, there is a reason. This dissolution is in the process of explode in his faceso much so that in his camp, it is considered counterproductive for him to get involved in the countryside. The most senior officials of the majority got the message across to him very quickly. A former Renaissance MP sums up the situation in one sentence: “ We cannot be the one who dissolves and the one who says: “Vote for me”. » He continues by explaining how the president’s pushback effect manifests itself: the most revealing sign is that on the campaign leaflets, the question of putting the photo of Emmanuel Macron does not even arise, no one wants some.

Serious consequences for the president

Beyond the discontent expressed by the French against Emmanuel Macron, as recounted by the Renaissance candidates in the campaign, the importance of which will be measured during the election, it is within the majority itself that there will be political consequences for President. Sacrificed without having been warned, the outgoing deputies went back like clocks.

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Those who will be re-elected consider that they will have been re-elected this time on their behalf, not thanks to Emmanuel Macron as was the case during the previous legislative elections. A candidate says that it’s over on the “ divine » from the head of state. From now on, the deputies of what remains of the majority will be more “emancipated” in relation to the president. He foresees an evolution of the group in the direction of what happened with Les Républicains after the defeat of Valérie Pécresse in 2022, often described as a group of “self-entrepreneurs”.

Emmanuel Macron has difficulty hearing the message

That’s what those who spoke to him say. A Renaissance manager believes that he did not “ awareness of rejection » of which he is the subject and the risk of heavy defeat in the legislative elections. Moreover, despite warnings about his involvement in the campaign, the head of state could not restrain himself yesterday Tuesday on the Île de Sein from making an incursion there to tackle his adversaries, the Rassemblement national of course but also the New Popular Front which brings together the left-wing parties and represents a danger for the majority: “ On the other side, on the far left, it’s four times worse in terms of cost. There is no longer secularism, they are going back on the immigration laws that we made, which make it possible to regulate and which we must now implement. There are completely ludicrous things like going to change your sex at the town hall. »

Immediately, this statement on gender reassignment earned him criticism from the left. Jean-Luc Mélenchon described these remarks as “ unworthy » and associations LGBT+ said they were “ shocked in view of the current context of transphobia “. Even in his camp, the former minister Clement Beaune distanced himself, calling “ to reject all stigmatization in political discourse “. Protests which forced the Élysée to demine, recalling the toll “ societal ” Of the president.

Another controversy at the worst time which raises a question: what conclusion will Emmanuel Macron draw?

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