He will have a hard time passing legislation, putting much of his agenda in peril
fared much better than expected with 89 seats, while the center-right Republicans and their allies took 61.
France’s current political system, known as the Fifth Republic, was set up by Charles de Gaulle in 1958 to avoid the disruptions from a parliamentary system that couldn’t create a stable majority. Socialist Michel Rocard, for instance, headed a government in the late 1980s that fell short of an outright majority.
Lisa Thomas-Darbois, a specialist in French politics at the Paris-based Institut Montaigne, said Macron won’t be able to lean on the extremes, whether it’s the far right or the far left, which will oppose pretty much systematically every proposition from the government. “The good thing is there are areas where they could agree, from the environment to public services to the need to engage citizens better,” said Annabelle Lever, a professor at Sciences Po, describing different ad hoc configurations of the parties in the coming parliament. “The bad thing is they might just not want to agree.”If that doesn’t work, Macron might be tempted to use article 49.
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