Macron’s early election reshapes the political situation, and France’s right-wing parties split

release: June 13, 2024 – 12:25

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Two years ago, he failed to secure a parliamentary majority to secure a second term as president. Macron’s gamble on early elections Potentially strengthens the far right National Rally (RN) and triggered a breakdown among traditional conservatives.

Eric Sciotti Mainstream right Republican Party The party’s surprise announcement this week of a coalition with the Nationals led to the remaining leadership team voting him out on Wednesday.

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But on Thursday, Jyoti insisted he was still the party leader and dismissed the attempt to oust him as “sophistry and petty feuds of mediocre people… who have no idea about what is happening in the country”, adding that it was legally invalid.

“I’m the chairman of the party, I’m going back to my office, that’s all,” Ciotti told reporters upon arriving at Republican headquarters. ParisCalled his opponent’s vote a “takeover” attempt and said he has challenged its validity in court.

The day before, photos of Paris regional president Valerie Pecresse rolling up her sleeves and walking toward the Republican headquarters, which had been closed by Jyoti in an apparent effort to prevent the PAC meeting from going ahead, went viral on social media.

‘End of the Road’

The lightning-fast election campaign, with the first round of voting on June 30, has also left the Nationalist Party’s smaller far-right rival, the Reconquista Party, hesitant over whether to ally with the heavyweight camp.

Marion Marechar, He called for an alliance with the RN – the figurehead of the Reconquista movement, which is at the top of its list of candidates in Sunday’s European elections Marine Le Pen It’s her aunt.

“She had reached the end of her rope and she had excluded herself from the party she had always despised,” said Reconquest founder Eric Zemmour said late Wednesday.

Despite the ongoing internal fighting among smaller parties, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally appears set to gain parliamentary seats smoothly, with the party currently holding 88 seats out of 577, significantly increasing its seat count.

Philippe Mariel, a political scientist at University College London, predicted that the party “will win the election and gain the largest number of seats in parliament, but will not achieve an absolute majority.”

Prime Minister Gabriel Artell Voters faced a “social choice,” he told France Internationale on Thursday.

He said Macron’s centrist camp offered a “progressive, pro-work, democratic, republican” alternative to the “far left” and the “far right.”

“Uniting the country”

Attar spent most of his time attacking on the left flank. socialistCommunist Party, Green Party and Far Left France will not surrender (LFI) rebuilt the October 7 attack About Israel and the subsequent conflict in Gaza.

“I’m thinking of all the left-wing social democratic voters who don’t think they support this policy,” Attar said.

Left leaders are considering who would become prime minister if their alliance wins, while the LFI’s presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon and veteran councillor Francois Ruffin are also in the race.

Chairman of the Socialist Party (PS) Olivier Faure He said a person “who is not the most divisive, but who unites us” should be prime minister – which would likely rule out Mélenchon, who attracts both fervent loyalty from his supporters and intense dislike from large parts of the political class.

(AFP)