After the results of the first round of the legislative elections which placed Together neck and neck with the Nupes, it is a bit of grimace soup in the presidential camp which is not guaranteed to have an absolute majority in the Assembly national on the evening of the second round. A situation which gives weight to the allies of Emmanuel Macron, in particular to Horizons, the party of Édouard Philippe.
The horizon is clearing up for Édouard Philippe. The candidates supported by the former Prime Minister achieved good scores on Sunday evening: 42 qualified for the second round and more than half came first, enough to ensure, a priori, a group in the Assembly and above all to weigh in the coalition of the presidential majority, where Emmanuel’s party, En Marche, renamed Renaissance, has little chance of obtaining an absolute majority on its own.
As of Sunday evening, an outgoing LREM deputy commented on this situation by declaring with a half-smile: “ the majority will reorient themselves “. A way of saying that Édouard Philippe was going to attract attention and his group would become ” hinge “.
Wakeup call
The former Prime Minister did not wait to make his little music heard. In a interview with the French daily Le Figarohe reaffirms the need to reform the pension system in particular and expresses his questions about the National Council for Refoundation, a proposal by Emmanuel Macron whose functioning is still unclear, stating that “ nothing can compete with the National Assembly and the Senate “. A reminder that sounds a bit like a distancing.
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