The knots always come to the comb. And more and more will come out as we go along. Tomorrow the premier Attal will resign into the hands of Macron who, not knowing how to govern the chaos he has created, closes himself in silence perhaps in the hope that the night will bring advice. Or, at least, that it will allow the contours of the government to come to be clarified.
Because today’s result says without a shadow of a doubt that the Popular Front and the Macronians, by dint of desistance, have managed to stop the advance of Marine The Pen And Jordan Bardella. The Rassemblement National is only third, behind the radical left and also behind the revived Macronism. The problem is not only that the centrists and the Popular Front consider each other as the devil and holy water, but also that within the left wing we are already at the point of fracture.
Once Le Pen has been stopped, in fact, the most difficult part arrives: forming the government. And the “desistants” are anything but in agreement. On the contrary. In the Popular Front, for example, they are already slaughtering each other: if Mélenchon shoots at zero altitude against the president who “must bow and accept defeat”, stating that “no agreement” with Macron “would be acceptable”; the other members of the coalition, from Glucksman to the socialists, are more inclined to seek a pact with the centrists. The leader of Place Publique is convinced that faced with a “divided Assembly” the parties must “behave like adults” and therefore “talk, discuss and dialogue”. The leader of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, who said he was ready “to lend himself to any coalition”. The Communists and the Greens, it seems, would also be open to negotiations.
In the center, meanwhile, maneuvers are beginning to exclude the extremes. The former prime minister Edward Philippe imagine being able to keep both the RN and France Insoumise out of the palace of power. For the leader of the presidential party RenaissanceStéphane Séjourné, the Republican Bloc will present “the preconditions” for any discussion and it is “excluded that Mélenchon and a certain number of his radical allies” can govern France. But the question is: are there the numbers to govern while keeping the far right and the anti-Semitic left out of the door?