Emmanuel Macron remains at the Elysée “until May 2027”, whatever the result of the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7. This is the commitment made by the President of the Republic in a “Letter to the French”, published Monday June 24, in the regional daily press.
While, poll after poll, the prospect of a relative majority in favor of the National Rally (RN) is emerging, which would lead to a blockage of the National Assembly – the far-right party could not hope to find allies in the center or to the left of the Hemicycle – pressure is mounting on the Head of State to resign in this unprecedented scenario.
The leader of the RN, Marine Le Pen, has already considered it on Friday June 21, on the sidelines of a trip to Courrières, in the Pas-de-Calais constituency where she is campaigning to get re-elected. In case of “political blockage”, “all that will remain for the president is resignation to emerge from a political crisis”, she increased. Stating that she dresses there ” a finding “and no ” a demand “. Emmanuel Macron “will do exactly what he wants and what the Constitution gives him the freedom to do”she added.
The president of the far-right party, Jordan Bardella, also imagined the hypothesis of a relative majority on Sunday in the Sunday newspaper. He reiterated that he would only agree to be prime minister if the French grant the RN an absolute majority, because “without an absolute majority, I would be at the mercy of a motion of censure and I would naturally leave after a few days”, he observed. The MEP increases the pressure on the President of the Republic by affirming that the latter would have answered the question of his resignation in this scenario: “It is he who caused this situation, it is he who caused this dissolution”discuss it.
“Worry, rejection, sometimes even anger at me”
Emmanuel Macron hastened to respond, excluding in his “Letter to the French” from resigning, whatever the result of the control. “You can trust me to act until May 2027 as your president, protector at every moment of our Republic, of our values, respectful of pluralism and your choices, at your service and that of the Nation”he wrote to his “dear compatriots”.
Even if it would be very adventurous to make his retention at the Elysée the issue of these legislative elections, this is not the first time that Emmanuel Macron has affirmed that he will not resign. This is not the first time either that he has put himself in the hypothesis of cohabitation with a government from a camp other than his own. Questioned by the press on June 13, during the G7 which was taking place in Italy, about the value of his word at this international summit when he could be relieved of his powers on July 7, he replied that the heads of state foreigners “know our Constitution”even if the distribution of powers in matters of foreign policy is more a matter of tradition than of the Basic Law.
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