“What has changed is that now when we listen to Jordan Bardella, we listen to the potential future Prime Minister”

Mathieu Souquière, consultant, essayist and expert associated with the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, analyzes the unprecedented political situation.

“Are we responsible for both sending RN deputies to the European Parliament, and also making them the parliamentary majority here?” According to Mathieu Souquière, consultant, essayist and expert associated with the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, this is the question that the French are asking two weeks before the legislative elections on June 30.

Questioned on Saturday June 15 on franceinfo, Mathieu Souquière judges that “what has changed since Sunday is that from now on, when we listen to Jordan Bardella, we are no longer listening to the head of the far-right list for the European Parliament, we are listening to the potential future Prime Minister of France”.

Concerning the dissolution of the National Assembly pronounced by Emmanuel Macron, the expert judges that“a dissolution is something totally incontestable on an institutional level”, “the President of the Republic has the right to dissolve”he recalls. “On a democratic level, it is no longer questionable. The appeal to the people can never be criticized”he judges. “Politically” on the other hand, “she’s more amazing”he decides. “To effectively initiate a dissolution at a time when your camp is weaker than ever and when your main adversary is conversely strengthened like never before, that raises questions”Mathieu Souquière is surprised.

Foundation consultant Jean-Jaurès also analyzes the influence of the New Popular Front. While outgoing LFI deputies, such as Alexis Corbière and Raquel Garrido, were not reinvested by the party, Mathieu Souquière recalls that “this is not the first time that the democratic question has been raised within this political movement”. “But here, precisely, it is posed at a very strange moment”he judges. “The left, against all expectations, had succeeded this week in achieving a union that was as fluid as it was rapid. Everything seemed to be going well(…) this union, in fact, seemed quite miraculous,” he describes.

“The question of investitures in any case hampers this beautiful fluidity within the left. So we will see which dynamic prevails.”

Mathieu Souquière, consultant, essayist and expert associated with the Jean-Jaurès Foundation

at franceinfo

“Will this problem be able to be resolved and put the union back on track or is it precisely the grain of sand which is permanently seizing up the machine?”asks the specialist, recalling that “time is counted” and “there left did not emerge from the European elections strengthened. “The score she has accumulated today is approximately the same level as five years ago and this is precisely why the unitary dynamic is the only condition which can make it possible to create a political dynamic behind“, he says.

However, Mathieu Souquière believes that despite “the difficulties” with these investiture questions, “the left succeeded in its first week by achieving its union”while “the far right had a first week, itself quite difficult. I don’t know if we can describe it as disastrous, but in any case, we can see that in terms of alliances, things went badly with Marion Maréchal and with Éric Zemmour, they should have concluded an alliance. They did not do it in optimal conditions And with LR, we witnessed a totally burlesque episode where the president of the party announced an alliance. which he did not have the political means to do.”