The President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, urged his fellow citizens on Tuesday to “give a solid majority” to his coalition in the second round of the legislative elections, so as not to “add French disorder to world disorder.”
“It is time for us to make decisions, and great decisions are never made through abstention. I appeal, therefore, to your common sense and to the republican awakening”, he said, considering that“ on Sunday [na segunda volta das eleições legislativas]no voice should be missing in the Republic”.
Campaigning for the second round of the legislative elections, which will take place on June 19, with his coalition ‘Ensemble!’ (‘Together!’), which won the first round of voting by a narrow margin, the French head of state explained that it is “a solid majority is needed to ensure order inside and outside the borders”from France.
“Nothing would be worse than adding a French mess to the world mess,” he observed, urging voters to exercise “strongly and firmly freedom, equality, fraternity, secularism.”
“We need to defend our institutions against all those who challenge and weaken them,” he continued, in an apparent reference to the far-right and left-wing alliance NUPES (New Popular Ecological and Social Union), with which he will dispute the second round, in the next Sunday.
The President claimed to have heard “the difficulties that were expressed” in the first round, last Sunday, in which the outgoing majority registered, with 25.75% of the votes, almost a tie with NUPES (25.66% ), ahead of Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Union party, which came in third place.
This means that Emmanuel Macron cannot have an absolute majority in the National Assembly during his second five-year presidential term.
The head of state was speaking at the Parisian Orly airport, next to the plane that will transport him on his first tour of southeastern Europe, directly affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
Macron will go to a NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) base in Romania to greet the 500 French soldiers stationed there, make a support visit to Moldova and a possible trip to kyiv.
The leader of the radical left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who heads NUPES, condemned on Tuesday Macron’s “contempt” for the second round of the legislative elections, because of his trip a few days before the election.
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Source: Observadora
