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French President Emmanuel Macron announced the dissolution of the National Assembly and the call for elections for June 30 and July 7, after the defeat in the European elections on Sunday. } This resolution comes after the low vote on his list in the European elections (15%), which meant half the support of Marine Le Pen’s National Group (approximately 30%).
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The French president, Emmanuel Macronannounced the dissolution of the National Assembly and the call for elections for June 30 and July 7, after the defeat in the European elections this Sunday.
“I could not continue, at the end of this day, looking the other way. Added to this situation is the fever that has infected public and parliamentary debate in our country,” said Macron, in a televised address from the Elysée.
“That is why, after having proceeded to the prior consultations of article 12 of our Constitution, I decided to return the word of our future parliamentarian through the vote,” he added.
Macron weighed the severe setback of his list in the European elections this Sunday (15%), which achieved barely half of the votes of the National Rally (RN) of Marine Le Pen (30%), according to exit polls.
The head of the RN list, Jordan Bardellahad already requested the calling of elections to the National Assembly in a first intervention after knowing the polls.
The new elections will come only two years after those of June 2022, in which Renacimiento, the head of state’s party, lost the absolute majority it had had in the 2017-22 legislature, which generated problems for the Government at the time. to seek parliamentary partners to approve their reforms.
For example, the much-discussed pension reform was approved last year without a vote in the National Assembly.
