“The attempt has been made: we just have to wait until Sunday to see if it will work this time too.” This implacable observation is the fruit of the Italian newspaper The Stamp and concerns the “republican front” that the left and center forces are trying to build. Having come out on top in the first round of early legislative elections, the National Rally (RN) is on the verge of power.
The eventful news between the two rounds is partly due to the way we elect our deputies. The two-round majority single-member constituency system remains a model that is quite difficult to grasp abroad. The Dutch in From Telegraph did not lack didacticism in explaining the reasons and highlighting the change in position of Marine Le Pen, a consequence of the emergence of a potential “republican front”.
The figurehead of the far-right party made the exercise of power by her party conditional on obtaining an absolute majority. Hope shattered by the strategy of withdrawal, which caused the number of three-way races to fall from almost 300 to 89. Speaking to France Inter, she said she was no longer bothered by the idea of governing with “only” 270 deputies.
This number could still decrease. The Italian journalist Francesca Schianchi does not fail to point out the difficulties of the National Rally. These are not limited to the establishment of a “republican front”. The Stamp focuses in particular on the Ludivine Daoudi affair.
The Ludivine Daoudi affair does not go unnoticed
RN candidate in the 1st constituency of Calvados, photos of her wearing a cap of the Luftwaffe – the air force of Nazi Germany – began to circulate pushing it, in fineto withdraw. Information that was not failed to be highlighted The Mirrorrevealing according to them “the doubts which hang over their [celle des candidats RN] skill.”
Reluctance surrounding the “Plural Assembly”
The highlighting of the strengths of this new “republican front” does not prevent the Wall Street Journal to point out the latter’s flaws. The American newspaper focuses on the majority’s positions with regard to La France insoumise (LFI). If Gabriel Attal had called for a “plural assembly”, Edouard Philippe openly subscribed to a “neither Mélenchon nor Le Pen” rhetoric, whereas Emmanuel Macron was more ambiguous. The head of state did not openly call for a vote for LFI in the event of a second round with the RN.
This same France Insoumise is described by the Wall Street Journal of hard left. Translated into French, this gives “radical left”. This point of tension raises the question of the viability of the “republican front”, according to the Swiss newspaper. The weather“It is true that it is difficult to see how elected officials from the increasingly hard-line liberal right could agree on a budget or a social and security policy with an increasingly radical left,” we can read in their columns.