MACRON. Returned to the Elysée for a second term, Emmanuel Macron would be the “most poorly elected” president according to Jean-Luc Mélenchon despite a score of 58.5%. The re-elected president must therefore win the legislative elections to definitively record his victory at the top of the state.
The results of the 2nd round of the presidential election near you
58.54% of the vote. Thanks to this score, Emmanuel Macron is back for a second term as President of the Republic. The victory of the outgoing president is however marked by the rise of the extreme right with which the gap has narrowed compared to 2017. For the leader of the Republic in March, re-election has a bitter aftertaste because he knows the owe in part to the vote of “dam” against Marine Le Pen. This argument, in addition to the large share of abstention estimated at 28.01%, feeds the speech of Jean-Luc Mélenchon who accused Emmanuel Macron only a few minutes after his victory in the presidential election of being “the most badly elected presidents of the Vand Republic”. After analysis, the declaration of the Insoumis appears false but in certain respects the scores recorded by the winning candidate are close to unflattering record levels. These are in particular the rate of abstention and the number of votes out of all the voters registered voters who sin.Only 38.52% of all the people registered on the electoral lists voted for the Macron vote while 34.20% did not go to the polls or slipped blank or invalid ballots.Since the beginning of the Vth Republic, only one president did less well: Georges Pompidou in 1969. But on average on the same criterion, the previous presidents won between 39 and 44% of the vote, the difference is therefore minimal with Emmanuel Macron, only Jacques Chirac convinced 62% of voters in 2002 against Jean-Marie Le Pen. For the rest, whether in percentage of votes, where Emmanuel Macron recorded the third best score behind Jacques Chirac in 2022 (82.61%) and his first candidacy in 2017 (66.10%), or in number of votes cast the re-elected president appears at the top of the scores of presidential candidates.
If the argument of the Insoumis does not seem to deal a significant blow to the re-elected president, the match between the two men will be played as the legislative elections approach. Macronie, the radical left and the far right are betting a lot on the June elections because everyone wants to obtain a majority in the National Assembly to influence politics over the next five years. It is, as tradition dictates, the “third round” of the presidential election and one of the first highlights of Emmanuel Macron’s five-year term. The outgoing president intends to get involved in this new political battle but the first step is to appoint a new Prime Minister, an announcement is expected between May 2 and May 13, which is early enough to launch the campaign in which Matignon has a role to play. player. If the hypotheses put forward on the identity of the future Prime Minister are numerous, none have been invalidated or confirmed by the Elysée and the president is walled in silence to keep the effect of surprise.
What are Emmanuel Macron’s presidential results?
The president-candidate came out on top in both rounds of the presidential election seeming to dominate the political game from start to finish. Her victory on the evening of the second round on Sunday April 24 with 58.54% of the vote is therefore not a surprise, but she is tainted by the gap with Marine Le Pen, which is considerably reduced compared to 2017. The candidate is doing well. with 41.46% of the votes against 33.90% five years earlier. The other important figure for this election concerns the abstention rate, measured at 28.01%, apart from in 1969 never have so many voters shunned the ballot box in a presidential election. Although already known, the final results of the presidential election are to be announced by the Constitutional Council on 27th April.
New government, new Prime Minister, who will Emmanuel Macron choose?
The jubilation of the past victory, Emmanuel Macron must refocus on the first challenges of his mandate, in particular the appointment of his Prime Minister. “If Emmanuel Macron is re-elected, I will submit my resignation in the following days”, announced Jean Castex, the current tenant of Matignon on April 19 on France Inter but the re-elected president has apparently asked the head of government to play the extensions and to postpone his departure until the week of May 2 to ensure the “transition” with his successor. The future Prime Minister must represent and give “new impetus” to politics before May 13, the latest date envisaged for the inauguration of Emmanuel Macron.
Several surnames have been circulated to try to guess the identity of the next personality appointed to Matignon, among the most plausible hypotheses the names of Julien Denormandie (Minister of Agriculture), Elisabeth Borne (Minister of Labour) and Christine Lagarde (President of the European Central Bank) return. No confirmation can stop a scenario. We simply know that the president “wants a female appointment to Matignon” without this being the determining criterion as explained by the Secretary of State for European Affairs Clément Beaune on April 25 on BFM TV. To make the right choice, Emmanuel Macron multiplies the consultations in particular with former presidents of the Republic since according to the continuous information channel between April 24 and 25, the Head of State spoke with François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy. If he is eager for advice, he made a point of specifying that it is alone that he will choose his Prime Minister.
In addition to working on the casting for the office of Prime Minister, Emmanuel Macron is working on the composition of the government. According to France info, it is a very tight government that the head of state envisages with between 10 and 15 ministers against 42 for his first term. Reduced, the composition of the government should be announced in the wake of the announcement of the name of the Prime Minister. With regard to the secretaries of State, more numerous, it would be necessary to await the end of the legislative elections to know them. always according to France info, in addition to cleaning up the ministries, many ministers in office would not be reappointed, only “four or five” of them could remain in place in their ministry or in another government post. Bruno Le Maire in the Economy and Gérald Darmanin seem in a good position to keep their posts while Gabriel Attal could be promoted to head a ministry.
Emmanuel Macron gets in working order for the legislative elections
Despite his re-election as head of state, Emmanuel Macron still has to play in the legislative elections known to be the “third round” of the presidential election. The president is once again aiming for a victory to ensure the presence of a presidential majority in the National Assembly, a detail that would greatly facilitate the implementation of his project and his reforms. But this is not an easy task and in Macronie we fear a victory for the left, more particularly for France Insoumise. “If Mélenchon succeeds in uniting the left around him, he becomes our number one opponent”, worried a minister in the columns of the Figaro April 25. In addition to being a political difficulty, the scenario also presents the risk of a non-representation of the April election according to a close friend of the Head of State: “We risk having a big problem: a main opposition of far left, while the far right won more than 40% of the presidential vote”.
Emmanuel Macron is therefore preparing the counter-attack in all discretion and intends to invest himself personally in the campaign. France info advances that the re-elected president will himself validate the candidates labeled La République en Marche and will then study the possible alliances to be forged with the political formations of the majority such as the Phillipist party Horizons or with certain Republicans according to the will of Nicolas Sarkozy.
For the time being, various bells are ringing. The poll Harris Interactive carried out after Emmanuel Macron’s victory on April 24 assesses two scenarios – one with individual candidacies for each party and another with rallies from the right and center with the Republic in March, from the left and the far right – and it bets in both cases on an absolute presidential majority. Yet in opinion polls, such as the study ofOpinionWay for CNews and Europe 1, 63% of voters want Emmanuel Macron “not to have a majority and to be forced into cohabitation”. A figure reduced to 56% in the survey Ispos Sopra Steria for France TV.
When will Emmanuel Macron’s inauguration take place?
The investiture ceremony will take place to mark the official start of Emmanuel Macron’s second term, only it will be “minimized” because it is only a reappointment of the president, explained Laurent Fabius, President of the Constitutional Council. An official ceremony will still take place in the hall of the Palace according to The world between April 27, date of proclamation of the final results, and April 13. A speech by Laurent Fabius, followed by a speech by Emmanuel Macron are planned. Then will follow the first official trips of the re-elected president. Certainly, the appointment of the Prime Minister will make more noise than the investiture of Emmanuel Macron.
Speech by Emmanuel Macron on April 24, the promise of a “new era”
It was on the Champ de Mars that Emmanuel Macron delivered his victory speech on Sunday April 24. He thanked the French for “trusting him to preside over our Republic for the next five years” had a word for each voter, in particular those of Marine Le Pen and for the abstainers to whom he promised to be the “president of all and all”. A promise that will not be easy to keep but which is, according to the head of state and his supporters, at the heart of Emmanuel Macron’s project. “We must, in the coming weeks, respond to these French people, convince them. […] There are fractures to which we must respond, “said Elisabeth Borne the day after the coronation of the outgoing president on RTL. “This vote obliges me” recognized the winner during his speech and he promises a change of method, a “collective overhaul” rather than continuity for this new five-year term even if this means that “the years to come will not be easy. . […] We will have to write them for future generations, for our children.”
Emmanuel Macron, in this campaign between the two rounds, indicated that he wanted to “complete” and “enrich” his program, in particular on ecology which he very visibly prioritized, in particular with the concept of “planning ecological” dear to Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his voters. The outgoing president said he was ready not to push back the retirement age to 65. He also indicated that he was “not opposed” to the establishment of a “full” proportional system for the legislative elections.