Get out of the impasse.
To respond to this political need, Emmanuel Macron said he was determined to build "either a coalition" or "agreements" on legal texts, as in Germany or Italy, noting that it was a a situation that is "terribly banal at European level".
"That's what we will do with all the governing parties," he said.
While his liberal coalition has only 245 seats, the president finds himself in a rare situation in France, in particular since the inversion of the electoral calendar in 2002, placing the legislative elections just after the presidential one.
But Emmanuel Macron wanted to put the prevailing political uncertainty into perspective.
“France is in a parliamentary situation which it experienced in 1988 (…) but (which) is above all horribly banal at European level”, he said, noting that out of 27 Member States of EU, “twenty” include coalition governments, “some with five, six, seven partners”, and others “minority governments”.
The government of national unity dismissed by the opposition
Many European countries, where the parliamentary system is predominant, are in fact accustomed to having leaders with only a relative majority in Parliament, such as Germany, Italy, Spain or even Sweden.
In Germany, for example, the current government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz is a team of social democratic, liberal and green parties.
In France, the idea of a government of national unity or a coalition of governments has been rejected by the opposition on the right and on the left, suggesting strong tensions at the time of the new legislature, which starts next Tuesday. .
Among the priorities is the adoption this summer of emergency measures to deal with soaring inflation.
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