French far-right leader Marine Le Pen called Saturday for new legislative elections next year, saying the country’s political situation “cannot hold.”
The political situation “cannot hold,” said Marine Le Pen on Saturday, calling for a new dissolution next year, when her group’s elected representatives return to the National Assembly.
The president of the National Rally (RN), Jordan Bardella, hoped that the RN deputies would in the meantime embody a “constructive” and “influential” opposition.
“We find ourselves in a system where the one who has the fewest votes is responsible for forming a government,” Mr.me Le Pen, in reference to the arrival of Michel Barnier from the ranks of LR, at Matignon.
“This cannot last,” “there are ten months left and I am convinced that at the end of these ten months, or in the spring or in the fall, there will be new legislative elections,” she said.
“Let’s hope that this term will be as short as possible,” insisted the RN leader.
Although her party has been put back at the heart of the political game with the arrival of Mr Barnier at Matignon, under the constant threat of a joint motion of censure from the left and the RN, the head of the 126 deputies of the RN group nevertheless considered that the “great country that is France cannot function like this”.
A position that contrasts with that of Emmanuel Macron, who has made it known that he does not wish to dissolve the National Assembly again before the end of his term at the Elysée.
Mr Macron cannot pronounce the dissolution of the Assembly “within the year following” the last legislative elections, called following his decision to dissolve this chamber on the evening of the last European elections, on June 9.
Former European Commissioner Michel Barnier, from the right, was appointed Prime Minister by President Macron two months after legislative elections that failed to produce a majority in the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, which is now divided into three blocs, left, centre right and far right, which complicates the formation of a government team.
As soon as Mr Barnier was appointed, the radical left, which is part of the left-wing coalition that came out on top in the legislative elections with 193 MPs, called for demonstrations to denounce “a coup de force”, while the extreme right, with its 126 MPs (142 with its allies) claimed to place him “under surveillance”.