2022 French legislatives

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Elisabeth Borne tender her resignation to Macron, but he refused:

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne offered her resignation to President Emmanuel Macron in the wake of the ruling party losing its majority in elections, but the head of state turned it down, the presidency said on Tuesday.

Macron believes the government needs to "stay on task and act" and the president will now seek "constructive solutions" to the political deadlock in talks with opposition parties, said a presidential official, who asked not to be named.

Macron’s discussions with opposition leaders will start on Tuesday with Christian Jacob, head of the traditional conservative Republicains (LR) party that has been in decline in recent months but could be courted to give Macron a parliamentary majority.
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Macron is also set to meet with Le Pen, but Mélenchon is not expected to do the same.

why

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Elisabeth Borne tender her resignation to Macron, but he refused:

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne offered her resignation to President Emmanuel Macron in the wake of the ruling party losing its majority in elections, but the head of state turned it down, the presidency said on Tuesday.

Macron believes the government needs to "stay on task and act" and the president will now seek "constructive solutions" to the political deadlock in talks with opposition parties, said a presidential official, who asked not to be named.

Macron’s discussions with opposition leaders will start on Tuesday with Christian Jacob, head of the traditional conservative Republicains (LR) party that has been in decline in recent months but could be courted to give Macron a parliamentary majority.
(...)

Macron is also set to meet with Le Pen, but Mélenchon is not expected to do the same.

why

It should be obvious as to why.

Mélenchon is giving up a chance to have influence

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I mean Reconquête was a personality project that failed, so it no longer has a purpose. It tried to seize the mantle of the far right from Le Pen and failed. It was at its core an attempt by the old guard, lets call them FN-types, to take control from the "RN-types" who came in and gained power with Le Pens growth. The FN-types liked panzerdady's party which was LR for Racists. The new RN-Type guard is more anti-globalist from a position of the pocketbook, and of the ignored and forgotten.

Unsurprisingly more voters align with the latter, but more vocal and prominent people - like Zemmour - alligned with the former. With RN's success last weekend, Le Pen succeeded in defeated the heretical rivals who split off, or silencing the doubters who stayed behind inside the party. She even won and now has her people in control of places that the FN-types call home, so they could naturally gravitate towards her in the future.

I'm more interested now in what Ciotti and his ilk do now, cause he seems to be the natural evolution of the Zemmour story. Ciotti has ambition and can try to fuse 'respectable' LR types with the Zemmourites. With Macron's take of a something like a "Unity Government," a LR split would not be a surprising development over the next months.

did ciotti endorse le pen in the second round or anyone from his wing of lr? And what about that other right wing populist guy who got 4 last time and 2 this time