Emmanuel Macron will try to regain control by inviting successively to the Elysee Palace on Tuesday June 21 and Wednesday June 22 the representatives of the political forces present in the new Assembly, where the absence of an absolute majority threatens to make the country ungovernable.

Remained silent since the announcement of the results of the legislative elections, the Head of State proposed to "discuss and exchange for the higher interests of the Nation" with these political leaders in order to "build solutions at the service of the French", according to her entourage.

Six of them will be received successively on Tuesday at the Élysée: Christian Jacob (LR), Olivier Faure (PS), François Bayrou (Modem), Stanilas Guerini (LREM), Marine Le Pen (RN) and Fabien Roussel (PCF) , before others on Wednesday.

Emmanuel Macron "took this initiative as the guarantor of the institutions and their functioning, not of their dysfunction and their blocking", explained Clément Beaune, the Minister of European Affairs, on LCI.

Learn lessons

Presented as the big loser in the election, the head of state must quickly learn the lessons of the election before being caught up in a tunnel of international obligations (European Council, G7, NATO summit) from Thursday.

He discussed the strategy to adopt on Monday during a lunch with Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and the tenors of Ensemble!, Édouard Philippe and François Bayrou.

The Council of Ministers scheduled for Tuesday has been postponed, as has the launch on Wednesday of the National Council for Refoundation, a tool for the "new method" of consultation advocated by the president.

A reshuffle is inevitable to replace the three ministers beaten on Sunday: Amélie de Montchalin at Ecological Transition, Brigitte Bourguignon at Health and Justine Benin at the Sea.

“Blocking of reforms”

Only two months after his re-election, the head of state is already up against the wall: should he keep Élisabeth Borne after a few weeks at Matignon?

And how can he politically reorient the government to try to achieve an absolute majority in the Assembly?

"My fear is that the country is blocked," admitted government spokeswoman Olivia Grégoire.

"It will take imagination, audacity, openness," she said, reiterating the idea of ​​an outstretched hand to "all those who want to move the country forward".

But this call for "a majority of action", launched on Sunday evening by Elisabeth Borne, was firmly rejected by the opposition, with the exception of a few elected officials from the right or center-left.

On Monday, the acting president of RN Jordan Bardella felt that Elisabeth Borne had to "give up her apron".

The rebellious Adrien Quatennens also called on the Prime Minister to "go away" because she "is not in a position to govern the country after taking such a defeat at the ballot box".

For LR Christian Jacob, "no question of a pact, coalition or agreement of any kind" with the macronists.

But Catherine Vautrin, the ex-LR president of Grand Reims and a time approached for Matignon, called in an interview with Liberation the right to take its "responsibilities" around a programmatic and government agreement with the Macron camp.

For her part, Marine Le Pen warned that she was going to "implement the blocking of all the reforms (...) harmful, first and foremost retirement at 65".

With AFP

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