Emmanuel Macron announced the dissolution of the National Assembly in an unexpected speech on June 9 and thus formalized the holding of legislative elections. He must speak again in the coming days for the presidential majority campaign.
With a single sentence, Emmanuel Macron caused a political earthquake. The President of the Republic announced the dissolution of the National Assembly on the evening of Sunday June 9, only a few minutes after the publication of the first estimates of the results of the European elections. “I trust the French people to make the fairest choice for themselves and for future generations. Trust between our democracy, that the word be given to the sovereign people, nothing is more republican” declared the head of the State from the Elysée.
A “serious and heavy” decision which shakes up the political agenda. In his speech, Emmanuel Macron also set the dates of the early legislative elections for Sunday June 30 and July 7, leaving only around twenty days between his announcement and the first vote. The campaign will therefore be express.
Macron’s new speech before Thursday
After his surprise speech during election night and his even more unexpected announcement, Emmanuel Macron plans to speak again in the week of June 10 to 16, the first of a very short campaign. The Head of State wishes to address the French once again to present the presidential majority’s plan for the next legislative elections, more particularly its plan for the next three years before the 2027 presidential election. Emmanuel Macron could evoke a desire to create a majority extended to the parties that it considers to be part of the republican arc – the PS, EELV, the PCF and LR – to govern and adopt future bills.
While the announcement of the dissolution had the effect of a shock in the political class, the Head of State could also return in more detail to the reasons which pushed him to announce the dissolution and to do so so fast. The dissolution of the Assembly could have been announced for the start of the September school year, but Emmanuel Macron preferred to make it immediate, a way of underlining the urgency and seriousness of the political situation? Explanations on this point can be hoped for.
This speech should take place before Thursday evening and the departure of Emmanuel Macron for the G7 summit in Puglia, Italy. BFMTV understands that the presidential intervention would be planned for Wednesday June 12.
Macron involved in the legislative campaign
Emmanuel Macron is among the first to get involved in the campaign for the legislative elections that he called by dissolving the National Assembly. The Head of State will thus closely follow the inaugurations of the candidates of the presidential majority party, Renaissance. Which are scheduled for Tuesday June 11 during a meeting of the party’s executive office. Regarding the nominations, the presidential camp has already warned that it will not present a candidate against the outgoing deputies from the Republican arc, namely the ecologists, the socialists, the communists and the republicans.
The presidential majority, still under the leadership of Emmanuel Macron, also reached out to the forces of the right and the left by proposing to nominate environmentalist, socialist, communist and republican candidates on the condition that the latter subscribe to the majority’s project. . But, unsurprisingly, no political group accepted the offer from the Macronist camp.
In addition to extending poles to the other parties forming the Republican arc, according to the majority, Emmanuel Macron also takes the temperature with his allies. The President of the Republic thus invited his former Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe to the Elysée this Monday evening. The boss of the Horizons party will see 31 of his deputies put their seats at stake.