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I aim to be prime minister for all the French people if the French give us their votes,
said 28-year-old RN party leader Jordan Bardella, as quoted by the BBC We can say with lucidity that the detoxification of the National Rally is reaching its final stages,
said Bruno Cautrès, a political analyst with Sciences Po institutes As the left has made Macron its big opponent, and Mélenchon and Macron have spent months fighting a huge political battle, it’s hard to resuscitate the cordon sanitaire,
said Bruno Jeanbart, a pollster from OpinionWay Without a clear majority, there will always be old feudalisms, wilful inertia and political maneuvering that will wreck the true alternative that the country needs,
Le Pen said during a campaign event in the Eastern town of Hénin-Beaumont They won the European election three times in a row and Marine Le Pen twice got through to the second round of the presidential election; if they win France’s second-most-important election [the parliamentary election], they’ve become mainstream,
Our guideline is simple and clear: Not a single more vote for the National Rally,
France Unbowed leader Jean-Luc Melenchon said The French have shown their willingness to turn the page on a contemptuous and corrosive power,
Le Pen told the cheering crowd I will be a 'cohabitation' prime minister, respectful of the constitution and of the office of president of the republic, but uncompromising about the policies we will implement,
Le Pen had a slightly smaller margin than some of the polls had pointed to, which may have helped the euro a little bit higher on the open,
He has no grassroots network... the people around him are the same, they don't express the mood of the times,
We have seven days to spare France from catastrophe,
said Raphael Glucksmann, a key figure in the left-wing alliance Nothing is won and the second round is decisive,
Le Pen, who has long worked to distance the party from its extremist origins, told supporters I will be a ‘cohabitation’ prime minister,
he said, referring to the fact that Mr Macron will remain president I call on all French people attached to their freedom, to the recovery of France, to join us,
The time has come to give power to leaders who understand you, who care about you,
Yet the prime minister has the power to submit these ordinances and decrees to a vote of the National Assembly, thus overriding the president’s reluctance,
In case of cohabitation, policies implemented are essentially those of the prime minister,
political historian Jean Garrigues said It’s possible for the president to prevent or temporarily suspend the implementation of a certain number of the prime minister’s projects, since he has the power to sign or not sign the government’s ordinances or decrees,
Yet there remains another unknown in the equation: the population’s ability to accept the situation,
Whatever the National Assembly looks like, it seems that the Constitution of the 5th Republic is flexible enough to survive these complex circumstances,
Melody Mock-Gruet, a public law expert teaching at Sciences Po Paris, said in a written note