"I have too much experience to be disappointed by a result in which we double the number of our representatives," said the leader of the National Compact after the exit poll results relegated his party to third place in the second round of the French National Assembly election.
"Our victory is only delayed," Marine Le Pen assessed the election exit poll in front of French state TV cameras shortly after 10:30.
Marine Le Pen said she remained optimistic despite the result: "I have too much experience to be disappointed by a result where we double the number of our representatives."
According to him, "their star is still rising" and he feels that "our victory is just delayed."
The party leader criticized the agreement between Emmanuel Macron and the far left, saying that without it the Rassemblement National would have an absolute majority. Marine Le Pen considers the current situation "untenable" and questions the possibility of Jean-Luc Mélenchon becoming prime minister.
Regarding the possible resignation of Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen refused to take a position: "I am not demanding anything," she answered the question.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the far-left New People's Party coalition, made a fiery speech after the exit polls were released, but Macron is waiting for now.
"The will of the people must be strictly respected. No agreement would be acceptable. The defeat of the president of the republic and his coalition was clearly confirmed. The president must bow his head and accept his defeat,” said Mélenchon.
The Prime Minister must go. The president must call on the New People's Front to govern, Mélenchon asserted.
The French president will wait to get to know the "structure" of the new House of Representatives before deciding who he will invite to form a government, the presidential palace announced on Sunday evening.
In accordance with republican traditions, he will wait until the new National Assembly is established before making the necessary decisions, the presidential office said, adding that he will not speak under such conditions on Sunday evening.
The New People's Front, a left-wing coalition formed by the radical leftist Disobedient France, the Communists, the Greens and the Socialists, came out on top on Sunday in the second round of the early national assembly elections in France ahead of French President Emmanuel Macron's United party alliance, while Marine Le Pen's National Collapse (RN) was forced into third place - it was revealed from the estimated exit poll results presented at the closing of the polls.
According to the mandate estimates, none of the forces obtained the absolute majority needed to govern, i.e. the 289 seats.
The Új Népfront achieved between 172 and 215 places, according to the survey of four public opinion research institutes. The presidential camp - which has so far secured a relative majority in the lower house of parliament with 245 representatives - will have between 150 and 180 seats, while Marine Le Pen's party will have between 115 and 155 seats after the previous 89 seats. The center-right Republicans will continue to be the fourth faction with between 57 and 67 seats.
In the 577-member National Assembly, 76 representatives were elected in the first round last Sunday, and as a result of a very high participation rate of 66.71 percent, the candidates of all three major political blocs - the presidential camp, the RN and the left-wing alliance - also advanced to the 306 to the second round. However, in more than two-thirds of these latter districts, the candidates of the left, center-right Republicans or the presidential camp withdrew in order to prevent the RN from winning in the given electoral district, so in the end only 89 districts had three candidates, two in 409, and four in two. , and one candidate ran in the second round in one district, a total of 1,094 in 501 districts.
The left withdrew 130 candidates, the presidential camp 80, while the centre-right withdrew three candidates in the past week.
Due to the setbacks, the upward momentum of the RN since the EP elections was suddenly broken, and this brought a turning point in the campaign in the middle of the week.
The three-chamber parliamentary lower house formed on Sunday evening created complete uncertainty in French political life, while the participation rate in the elections was 67 percent, which has not been seen in parliamentary elections since 1981. Based on the current situation, none of the three blocs can form a government, and it is not clear which party could be the leading force of a possible new coalition government.
It is unpredictable whether the left-wing parties and the presidential alliance will be able to agree on a joint government, while they have waged a fierce political battle against each other for the past two years.
There is also the question of whether the left-wing party alliance, which is struggling with numerous internal contradictions, will stay together after the victory, which the four parties did not celebrate together, but at four different locations.
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Cover photo: Marine Le Pen, leader of the French opposition National Consolidation (RN) party at the party president's press conference in Paris
Source: MTI/EPA/Mohamed Badra
