The coalition bringing together La France insoumise, the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and Europe Ecologie-Les Verts will try to obtain a maximum of seats against the presidential majority and its allies in the second round of the election.
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Can the Nupes prevent Emmanuel Macron from having an absolute majority in the National Assembly? At the end of the first round of the legislative elections, Sunday June 12, everything remains possible: the forces that make up the New Popular Ecological and Social Union come neck and neck with the presidential majority. The Nupes got 25.66% of the vote and the coalition Together! 25.75%, according to the final results of the Ministry of the Interior.
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According to them latest seat projections, the various left-wing parties (La France insoumise, the Socialist Party, Europe Ecologie-Les Verts and the Communist Party) would have a quota for the next five years of between 150 and 190 deputies. Four Nupes candidates were elected in the first round: Alexis Corbière (seventh district of Seine-Saint-Denis), Sophia Chikirou (sixth district of Paris), Daniele Obono (seventeenth district of Paris) and Sarah Legrain (nineteenth constituency of Paris).
However, if the seat projections are confirmed in the second round, on June 19, Jean-Luc Mélenchon will not be able to impose cohabitation on Emmanuel Macron. The leader of La France insoumise had nevertheless asked the voters of the“Elect Prime Minister” from the evening of the second round of the presidential election. This objective necessarily involves obtaining a majority in the National Assembly, which seems very unlikely due to the weight of the macronist bloc, united under the banner Together! (between 255 and 295 seats).
Added together, the parliamentary groups LFI, PS, PC and EELV did not exceed 60 deputies during the previous legislature. It could now disrupt government policy much more strongly, especially if Together! obtains only a relative majority next Sunday.