While the French government had not yet called a state of emergency on Thursday night, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said “the state’s response will be extremely firm.”
These results expose the fragile security of Emmanuel Macron, who certainly won the presidential election with a majority of 58% but remains highly contested in the country, with a double opposition, on his left and on his right.
If Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s dream of being “elected Prime Minister” remains unrealized, he nevertheless seems to have won his bet: that of appearing as the main oppositional force to Emmanuel Macron.
French paradox: no one wants to give Emmanuel Macron a majority, but all the projections in seats suggest that he will have a comfortable majority. It has been a long time since France has not been in such an absurd, not to say grotesque, political situation.
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