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Equal with Nupes, the Macron camp will have to fight to obtain an absolute majority
We will know next Sunday if the glass is half full or empty for Emmanuel Macron. Arrived at near equality in front of the Nupes in the first round of the legislative elections, the camp of the Head of State will have to fight against the united left to retain the absolute majority after a first round marked by record abstention. . Almost two months after the re-election of Emmanuel Macron, the outgoing majority under the label Ensemble! obtained 25.75% of the votes, or 21,442 votes more than the Nupes (LFI, PCF, PS and EELV) gathered behind Jean-Luc Mélenchon (25.66%), out of 23.3 million voters. Both sides have a week to ward off the abstention and disinterest of the French, which reached a new record at 52.49%, exceeding that of 2017 (51.3%). The Macron camp, however, retains the advantage in the projections of the 577 seats of deputies, with a range of 255 to 295 seats, ahead of the Nupes (150 to 210), according to the polling institutes, with an absolute majority at 289 seats.
At Nupes HQ, we still dream of sending Mélenchon to Matignon
After the results of the first round of the legislative elections, the left-wing activists present at Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s HQ still hoped to send their leader to Matignon. “We see that victory is possible. It’s our turn to govern now, to implement our plan to transform society,” said Christian, one of the activists. “By uniting the left, we succeeded in mobilizing those disappointed by the presidential election. I’m not getting fired up, but tonight we’re first, “said Pierre Castex, a 19-year-old rebellious activist. After the announcement of the results, Jean-Luc Mélenchon declared: “I call on our people to surge next Sunday, to definitively reject the disastrous projects of the majority of Mr. Macron. »
Attacks of November 13: From this Monday, the floor is up to the defense
The word is with the defense, it is even for her the last chance to convince. The lawyers of Salah Abdeslam and his thirteen co-accused present before the special assize court of Paris begin to plead this Monday and for two weeks at the trial of the attacks of November 13. For the lawyers of the fourteen defendants appearing before the court – six others, including five senior executives of the jihadist group Islamic State presumed dead in Syria, are tried in their absence – it is time to respond to the arguments of the prosecution. Olivia Ronen and Martin Vettes, lawyers for the only surviving member of the commandos, Salah Abdeslam, will plead last, on June 24.
Source: 20minutes
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