After losing the absolute majority in the National Assembly, President Emmanuel Macron said to himself “very confident”, this Friday, in the fact of being able to build “constructive majorities”, as in Germany or Italy, with “all the governing parties”.
Coalition or agreements on texts on a case-by-case basis?
“I believe that’s what Italy and Germany are doing and that’s what we will do with all the parties in government, to be able to build either a coalition or (some) agreements on texts for move forward on a clear agenda“, he declared after the European summit in Brussels.
France “knows how to compromise and including yours truly”, he added during a press conference, promising to work “with a lot of heart, will and optimism” in this sense.
“I am very confident because I believe in the good will of the women and men who are there to represent the nation”, who have “different sensibilities but are part of the republican field and the desire to govern, to move the country forward”, he hammered, without specifying which party he included.
A situation “terribly banal at European level”, says Emmanuel Macron
The head of state wanted to put the political situation into perspective in the country after the legislative elections. He noted that this situation was the common lot of many European countries, and that the presidential camp, with 245 seats out of 577, was closer to an absolute majority than in many other Member States.
“France is in a parliamentary situation that it experienced in 1988, with few differences, but (which) is above all horribly banal at European level”, he launched, noting that out of 27 EU Member States, one “around twenty” include coalition governments, “some with five, six, seven partners”, and others of “minority governments”. “Even if in France, there is a relative majority in Parliament today, it appears to be very important compared to many other parliamentary systems with a pure proportionality”, he continued.