New legislative elections predicted by Bardella, which even gives a date

During his wishes to the press this Monday, the president of the national rally deemed “inevitable” the re-conquest of legislative elections as soon as possible.

Jordan Bardella was speaking this Monday, January 27, 2025 on Monday in front of the media, on the occasion of his wishes to the press. The opportunity for the president of the National Rally to comment on the first steps of the new Prime Minister, François Bayrou, and more generally, the current political crisis. “At the start of the school year, behind the facade of soft consensus and a compromise that does not satisfy anyone, François Bayrou embodies worrying inertia”, immediately attacked Jordan Bardella.

Arguing that “the policy of François Bayrou is not that of change”, but “that of Emmanuel Macron and his indifference to the great issues of the daily life of the French”, the boss of the national rally questioned: ” Is there a pilot on the plane? ” For Jordan Bardella, that does not make the slightest doubt: it seems “inevitable to convene legislative elections as soon as they are institutionally possible”.

In other words, next July, a year after the dissolution of the National Assembly acted by Emmanuel Macron on the evening of the results of the European elections on June 9. Indeed, after having dissolved the assembly for the first time, the President of the Republic can no longer do it for a year. And according to the constitutionalist Théo Ducharme, questioned by Public Senate On the subject, “article 12 must be interpreted as referring to the second round, that is to say after the final election of the National Assembly”, that is, after July 7, the second round of the elections Anticipated legislative elections of 2024. The date of “July 8, 2025” is also mentioned by the Constitutionalist and professor of public law at the University of Lille, Jean-Philippe Derosier, still with Public Senate.

If Jordan Bardella assured this Monday that “only the return to the people will make it possible to build a clear and stable majority for the country”, with the calendar, as it presents itself, the new legislative elections would fall between August 3 and 17 . Not really an ideal period to mobilize a French electorate already loss of speed. Furthermore, Emmanuel Macron assured last December to the leaders of parties gathered at the Elysée “his desire not to dissolve the National Assembly by 2027”, as reported by the Marine Tondelier ecologist, C ‘ That is to say the year of the next presidential election. The re-concede of legislative elections wanted by Jordan Bardella seems badly engaged …