Macron set to lose absolute majority in French parliament: reaction

French President Emmanuel Macron arrives to vote in the next round of the French parliamentary elections, at a polling station in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France, June 19, 2022. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

PARIS, June 19 (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron was on training course to lose his absolute greater part in the French parliament following Sunday’s election, 1st projections confirmed, an outcome which would constrain his potential to thrust as a result of his reformist agenda.

In this article are rates from senior political officers, analysts and voters:

BRUNO LE MAIRE, FINANCE MINISTER

“This culture of compromise is 1 we will have to undertake but we need to do so around distinct values, suggestions and political jobs for France.”

JEAN-LUC MELENCHON, Leader OF THE Remaining-WING NUPES ALLIANCE

“(It is) a absolutely sudden circumstance. The rout of the presidential get together is finish and no crystal clear greater part is in sight.”

“France has spoken and, it should be stated, with an insufficient voice mainly because the amount of abstention is even now a great deal as well significant, which implies that a substantial part of France does not know exactly where to convert.”

Marine LE PEN, Chief OF THE Significantly-Ideal

“The individuals have determined to place a potent parliamentary team from the Rassemblement Countrywide within the assembly.”

“This group will be the most significant in the historical past of our bash. We have achieved our targets: of building Emmanuel Macron a minority president, with no control of energy of pursuing the political recomposition that is vital for democratic renewal.”

OLIVIA GREGOIRE, Govt SPOKESWOMAN

“There are moderates on the benches, on the appropriate, on the remaining. There are moderate socialists and there are men and women on the suitable who, most likely, on legislation, will be at our facet.”

GABRIEL ATTAL, Finances MINISTER:

“I am not heading to cover the truth that these benefits, if confirmed, are considerably from what we hoped for. The French have not supplied us an absolute vast majority. It truly is an unparalleled condition that will demand us to defeat our divisions.”

JORDAN BARDELLA, INTERIM HEAD OF THE Considerably-Correct RASSEMBLEMENT National:

“It is Emmanuel Macron’s possess conceitedness, his have contempt for the French persons and his own impotence on safety and obtaining electricity that has produced him a minority president. It can be a big breakthrough.”

RACHIDA DATI, CONSERVATIVE MAYOR OF PARIS 7EME ARRONDISSEMENT

“It is an abject failure for this federal government. Even Mitterrand in 1988 did not hit this stage. It is the failure of Macron’s approach. He will have to draw the implications and alter key minister.”

ALFONSO RODRIGUEZ, MACRON VOTER

“We would have liked things to go differently, to have a huge vast majority to protect Emmanuel Macron’s agenda.”

Enhancing by Richard Lough

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