The right-wing alliance (LR-UDI-DVD) will lose around sixty seats compared to the previous legislature. But it could however play a preponderant role in the Assembly, given the relative majority of the Macronist camp.
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The right resists, but still loses influence. On the evening of the second round of the legislative elections, Sunday June 19, the LR-UDI-DVD alliance obtains only 64 deputies, according to the final results of the Ministry of the Interior, and therefore loses about sixty seats in the new National Assembly. The Les Républicains party and its allies had qualified 91 candidates for the second round.
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In 2017, faced with the Macronist wave, the right had finished the second round with nearly 27% of the vote and 136 deputies in the hemicycle. This result had allowed it to position itself as the first opposition group and to obtain the presidency of the finance committee, then entrusted to Eric Woerth (who has since joined the Macronist camp).
LREM and its allies not having obtained an absolute majority in the new Assembly, the right will be able to play a crucial role and exert all its weight on government policy. Emmanuel Macron and his Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, will indeed have to find votes to pass their texts, starting with the pension reform.
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In the future legislature, LR will not be “in no way an extra force” of the majority but “a determined but useful opposition, not in the blocking of institutions and not in excesses”, warned during the interval between the boss of the Republicans, Christian Jacob. The latter promised to “vote and amend the reforms that go in the right direction” but of “to oppose harshly those who go against the grain of what we want and the interest of the country”.