Emmanuel Macron’s movement is expected to win a very large absolute majority in the Assembly, with 440 to 470 seats, according to LégiTrack, the weekly barometer from OpinionWay-ORPI. It no longer seems like a wave is forming for the candidates of La République En Marche (LREM), but a real tidal wave.
The risk of establishing a truly hegemonic system by granting all the power to one person (at least, that of the institutions) is indeed present, but… in a democracy, the voters are always right!
These successive elections have highlighted a France far from the clichés that portrayed it as entrenched in retrograde conformism, caught up in identity issues and social problems. It has shown itself to be open to change, even audacious.
In a burst of “dégagisme,” a sort of iconoclastic frenzy, this France wanted to sweep everything away, the good, the less good, and the bad. However, when it comes to the aftermath, it did not place its trust in the conservatives of the republican right (neither in the social-popular version nor the clérico-identitarian “rechpopulisten”) nor in the extremists of the National Front or the radical left of Commander Méluche with his unbearable antics.
This France that did not want populism chose Emmanuel Macron, a complete newcomer to the scene, and will choose unknown individuals (most of them) for the nobler task of a representative democracy: legislating in the name of the sovereign people.
Always a bit revolutionary, this France, isn’t it?
