First in Le Pen in the first round of parliamentary elections in France with 33.5% - Second in the Left with 28.5%, and third in Macron with 22%. Official estimation of the first round of parliamentary elections in France
Le Pen wins the election asks voters for an absolute majority
“We need an absolute majority for Jordan Bardella to be appointed prime minister by Emmanuel Macron in eight days,” she said, addressing a jubilant crowd. According to her point of view, the result reflects “the will of the French people to turn the page”, and she described the current government as “contemptuous and corrosive”.
Le Pen insisted that her electorate and those voters who didn’t vote for her party in the first round do so in the second round. “To be able to govern effectively, we must have an absolute majority next week.
Next week, we will have an absolute majority. And we will put an end to Macronism and its nefarious power for France,” she expounded. In a similar speech Bardella himself delivered, he said, “France is in existential danger. We must rebuild it.”
Many polls reveal that an absolute majority for the RN in the second round is possible. This scenario would raise the 28-year-old candidate Jordan Bardella to the post of Prime Minister.
Macron makes a desperate plea to the French people
Speaking to Agence France-Presse, French President Emmanuel Macron believes that the high turnout demonstrates the French's desire to “clarify the political situation.” He has also called for a large “democratic and republican” demonstration of unity against RN and a “broad” alliance against Le Pen’s party for the second round of the elections in eight days’ time.
“Faced with the National Rally, the time has come for a broad, unequivocally democratic and republican alliance for the second round,” Macron said in a statement.
What is cohabitation and its precedents in France?
The term refers to the situation where the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister are from different political parties. In this case, Macron (Renaissance) and Bardella (RN) would be in those respective roles.
It would not be the first time that two people from opposing political formations shared both positions. This phenomenon occurred for the first time in 1986, with the socialist François Mitterrand as head of state and Jacques Chirac as prime minister.
In 1993, Mitterrand was at the head of the Elysée, and the conservative Édouard Balladur was at the head of the government. Then, between 1997 and 2002, the tables were turned. The conservative Chirac was head of state, and the socialist Lionel Jospin was prime minister.
