Losing the parliamentary majority could obstruct Macron’s second term and pose major obstacles to his agenda.
A box containing cast ballots at a polling station June 19 in Marseille, France. PARIS — French voters headed to the polls in the decisive round of parliamentary elections on Sunday, as President Emmanuel Macron’s absolute majority hung in the balance.
Macron beat far-right leader Marine Le Pen in the presidential election runoff in April, securing another five-year term. But he has since faced an emboldened and more united left-wing opposition, composed of the Greens, the Socialists, the Communists and the party of far-left politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Many leftist voters primarily cast their ballots for Macron in April to prevent a far-right victory, not because they supported Macron’s proposals.
“The whole Fifth Republic has been designed in order to prevent a situation of instability in Parliament,” said Vincent Martigny, a political scientist at the University of Nice, referring to the French political system that has been in place since the late 1950s.If Macron were to lose his majority, it would “create, for the first time since 1958, a very strong instability in Parliament,” he said.
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