However, the president considers that the support received since the results of the first round of the presidential election, Sunday, April 10, do not bind his hands.
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There are several ways, institutionally and politically, to react to the shock that constitutes the accession of the extreme right in the second round of a presidential election. That of Jacques Chirac, first. In 2002, the former President of the Republic, re-elected with 82.21% of the vote against Jean-Marie Le Pen, merged right and center – the RPR and a fraction of the UDF – in the same party, baptized “ump ” A simple mechanical device, rather than an opening, after having benefited from the left voices in a flawless Republican Front.
then came Emmanuel Macron in 2017. The new elected – winner, this time, of Marine Le Pen – renewed part of the political staff, brought into his government rallied from the right, but did not bring Amendment to his first round project. He did not further in a coalition logic with other forces involved. The Frenchman, he felt, had given him a “clear mandate” to reform, although its broad victory (66.10%) has been built in part on a logic of Republican Front.
One quinquensate of crises later, Revoilà Emmanuel Macron in the same position. Always face Marine Le Pen, but in a less favorable configuration. The result of the second round, on April 24, may indeed be much tighter than in 2017. This time, the Head of State promises to be more open in its exercise of power in case of re-election.
“The Republican Front is no longer a reality”
“Nothing must be like before,” said the first round, Sunday, April 10. That’s why I want to reach out to everyone who wants to work for France; I am ready to invent something new to bring together the convictions and sensibilities, in order to build with them a common action at the service of our nation for the coming years. “
The President of the Republic clarified the contours of this opening during a trip to the north, Monday. Its offer, he says, does not come back to build a coalition, however claimed by certain parties of the Party the Republicans (LR). “We are not a parliamentary system,” justified Mr. Macron. Especially, he added, that “a presidential election is a project of people, not device logics”. And that his first round pedestal (27.84%) “is strong, stronger than five years ago.”
No question, so, to be dictated his conduct by smaller than oneself. “The Republican Front is no longer a reality,” the head of state judge, as if to signify that the support received since Sunday does not bind his hands. “Emmanuel Macron has arrived in the lead in 12,000 communes, compared to 7,000 five years ago. He responded to expectations. We are not in the addition of political forces, but in the gathering around a project” , Press Maud Bregeon, Spokesperson for the Republic (LRM).
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