"Slap", "slap", "humiliating defeat", "scathing disavowal", "cold shower" the press did not have words strong enough Monday morning to describe the setback suffered in the legislative elections by the camp of President Emmanuel Macron who will having to learn to deal with a National Assembly without a clear majority, where his party is retreating sharply in favor of the left and the far right.

Yesterday, the abstention rate reached 53.77%, according to the Ministry of the Interior.

Back, in pictures, on this historic evening.


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  • As in the first round, more than one out of two voters shunned the ballot boxes during the second round.

  • Emmanuel Macron's camp won 245 seats after the legislative elections on Sunday, 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.

  • These results of the second round, unprecedented under the Fifth Republic, clearly raise the question of Emmanuel Macron's ability to be able to govern and have the promised reforms passed, in particular that of pensions.

  • In the ranks of the Nupes, 72 deputies are elected under the Nupes-LFI nuance, 26 Nupes-PS, 23 Nupes-EELV and 12 Nupes-PCF. 

  • The national national makes a historic breakthrough by with 89 seats.

  • "The New Popular Ecological and Social Union should form a single group" in the National Assembly, "proposed" Monday Jean-Luc Mélenchon, worried that obtaining 89 deputies by the RN calls into question its "status" of first opposition to Emmanuel Macron.

    The Socialist Party, Europe Ecology-Les Verts and the French Communist Party all refused the proposal.

  • Marine Le Pen announced Monday from her stronghold of Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais) that she would not "take the lead" of her party, the National Rally, to devote herself to the presidency of the future RN group in The national assembly.

  • Having saved the furniture in the legislative elections, the Republican right wants to believe in its refoundation, but it will have to find a balance between hard opposition and the temptation of the coalition advocated by a minority.

    The Republicans had 61 deputies elected on Sunday (63 with the DVDs they supported).

    The president of LR, Christian Jacob, who will soon leave his functions, clearly stated this on Sunday: “We are in the opposition, we will remain in the opposition.

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  • Thunderbolt in Macronie, the outgoing president of the Assembly, Richard Ferrand, was beaten, as was Christophe Castaner, outgoing president of the LREM group, as well as his MoDem counterpart, Patrick Mignola.

  • These results of the second round open a delicate period of negotiations at all levels to seal alliances, reshuffle the government and negotiate positions of responsibility in the new Assembly.

  • The executive will be forced to carry out a reshuffle to replace the three defeated members of the government: Amélie de Montchalin (Ecological Transition), Brigitte Bourguignon (Health) and Justine Benin (Sea).

  • Emmanuel Macron received Monday at lunch at the Elysée Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and the tenors of Together!

    Edouard Philippe and François Bayrou to examine the consequences of the loss of the absolute majority in the legislative elections.

  • Solidarity Minister Damien Abad, whose campaign was disrupted by accusations of rape, was comfortably re-elected for his third term in Ain in the legislative elections.

  • The other members of the government, Olivia Grégoire, Olivier Véran, Clément Beaune, Stanislas Guerini, Olivier Dussopt, Marc Fesneau, Gérald Darmanin, Yaël Braun-Pivet, Gabriel Attal and Franck Riester were also elected deputies.

  • Doctor of Mathematics, Manuel Bompard, 36, was easily elected Sunday in the headquarters of Marseille of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

    The leader of Nupes seems far from wanting to hang up elsewhere: "I am changing combat positions, but my commitment is, and will remain, until my last breath in the first of your ranks if you want it well" he declared at the HQ of the united left, Sunday evening in Paris.

  • Spokesperson for the long strike of the chambermaids of the Ibis Batignolles, Rachel Kéké was elected deputy on Sunday and intends to bring the voice of the “invisible” workers to the Assembly.

    Aged 47, the Franco-Ivorian won for Nupes in the 7th constituency of Val-de-Marne against the former Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu.

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