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245 seats for Together!, 137 for Nupes and its allies, 89 for the RN… Update on the results of the legislative elections
Macron faces the risk of an ungovernable France, the Nupes first opposition force and the RN at a historic level. The legislative elections reshuffled the cards in the Assembly on Sunday and promise five difficult years for the newly re-elected president. Emmanuel Macron’s camp won 245 seats, below an absolute majority (289), followed by Nupes and its allies with 137 seats and the RN which made a historic breakthrough with 89 seats, according to a complete count of the AFP. LR wins 61 seats and its ally UDI three, against a hundred in the previous legislature. The various right get nine seats. The miscellaneous left 15 seats. Ten seats go to regionalist deputies. It will take “a lot of imagination” to act in this “unprecedented situation”.
Who are the winning and losing ministers?
Twelve members of the government elected, three failed. The Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, was beaten by her rival from the National Rally, Christine Engrand, in the 6th constituency of Pas-de-Calais. She was left behind by just 56 votes. Amélie de Montchalin, Minister for the Ecological Transition, candidate in the 6th constituency of Essonne, is also eliminated. Collecting about 47% of the vote, she fell to the candidate of Nupes, Jérôme Guedj. Justine Benin, Secretary of State for the Sea, was running for a second term in the 2nd constituency of Guadeloupe. She was credited with 41.35% of the vote. As demanded by the President of the Republic, the beaten will have to leave their ministry.
With the historic breakthrough of her party, Marine Le Pen is delighted with a “slightly more national assembly”
The RN returns in force to the Assembly. It was no longer at the Hénin-Beaumont sewing workshop, but in its bowling alley, that the National Rally organized its election evening around its champion, Marine le Pen. Passed a hair of a re-election in the 1st round, failing to have reached 25% of the registered, this second everything will have been only a formality for the outgoing RN deputy, who therefore retains her seat in the 11th constituency of Pas -de-Calais. But the real satisfaction of the president of the RN is to be able to constitute a “powerful group of parliamentarians” in the National Assembly, with 89 deputies, a historic breakthrough. “One of our objectives, to make Emmanuel Macron a minority president, has been achieved,” insisted Marine le Pen during her speech at Hénin-Beaumont. Facing the “deconstructors from above and below”, understood Together! and the Nupes, the boss of the RN promises to offer “a firm, responsible, constructive and respectful opposition to the institutions”.