After the legislative elections, the deputies return to the Assembly in the fog

Some deputies returned to the National Assembly the day after the second round of the legislative elections. Interviewed by franceinfo, they could barely hide their anxiety in this uncertain political moment.

Few newly elected MPs came to the Assembly on Monday, July 8, the day after their election. But those who were present did not hide their concern about the political climate resulting from the legislative elections. Vincent Jeanbrun, LR mayor of l’Haÿ-les-Roses, whose home was attacked during last summer’s riots, was elected MP for the first time on Sunday.

He beat Rachel Kéké in the 7th constituency of Val-de-Marne, two years after losing to Insoumise in the previous legislative elections. And for him, the situation in which France finds itself in the aftermath of the elections is serious. “We are happy to have had the trust of our citizens. But obviously, we measure the full importance, the full gravity of the situation and all that it implies. So a lot of seriousness”says the new MP.

Before specifying: “I, who was previously a parliamentary assistant, am returning to the National Assembly fully aware of what this place represents and of the symbolic importance of the debates that we will have tomorrow and in the days to come with all the deputies who have just been elected…”

There is no majority, no established coalition yet, and no new Prime Minister. Who could replace Gabriel Attal at the head of the government? For Boris Vallaud, re-elected PS MP in Landes, a non-divisive personality is needed. “We have a country that is fractured, that needs to be appeased, that needs to be reassured… We need to guarantee a form of civil peace and to give ourselves reasons to live together again.he said. We need a personality who embodies this and who is capable of calming, bringing together and building a future in which French women and men find their place.”

In the ranks of Renaissance, of the Ensemble! group, which came second behind the new Popular Front, some like MP Mathieu Lefèvre, re-elected in Val-de-Marne, are today appealing to non-Ciottist Republicans. In an attempt, according to him, to build a solid group in the Assembly. “We are not going to govern with the extremes, neither the National Rally, nor La France Insoumise. I call on the Republican right to join us and ourselves to join the Republican right, because the demand for authority is extremely strong in the country.”he says.

Mathieu Lefèvre also invites all social democrats who have broken with La France Insoumise to join him, like the ex-LFI dissidents Alexis Corbière or François Ruffin.