PARIS (Reuters) -Following are reactions to the upset outcomes of France’s parliamentary election on Sunday. The nation was on target for a hung parliament with the left-wing New Common Entrance (NFP) coming first, forward of President Emmanuel Macron’s centrists and the far-right Nationwide Rally (RN).
PRIME MINISTER GABRIEL ATTAL
“Tonight, the (political) extremes have no absolute majority, thanks to our determination and the strength of our values. We (centrists) have three times more MPs than were predicted at the start of this campaign.
“Being prime minister was the honour of my life. This night the political group that I symbolize not has a majority and tomorrow morning I’ll submit my resignation to the president.”
JORDAN BARDELLA, FAR-RIGHT NATIONAL RALLY PARTY
“I say tonight with gravity that depriving thousands and thousands of French individuals of the opportunity of seeing their concepts dropped at energy won’t ever be a viable future for France.
“Tonight, by deliberately trying to paralyze our institutions, Emmanuel Macron has not simply pushed the country towards uncertainty and instability, he has deprived the French people of any response to their day-to-day difficulties for many months to come.
“Within the midst of a buying energy disaster, with insecurity and dysfunction hitting the nation exhausting, France is disadvantaged of a majority, of a authorities to behave, and due to this fact of a transparent course to show France round.”
JEAN-LUC MELENCHON, HARD-LEFT FRANCE UNBOWED PARTY
“The need of the individuals have to be strictly revered. No association could be acceptable. The defeat of the president and his coalition is clearly confirmed. The president should settle for his defeat.
“The prime minister must go. The president must invite the New Popular Front to govern.”
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE, FORMER SOCIALIST PRESIDENT
“The New Popular Front must realise what it has to do today. It is the strongest party in the National Assembly. It does not have an absolute majority. As I speak, it has a relative majority.”
RAPHAEL GLUCKSMANN, SOCIALIST PARTY
“We’re ahead, but we’re in a divided parliament … so we’re going to have to act like grown-ups.
“We’ll have to speak, to debate, to have interaction in dialogue … The stability of energy has shifted in parliament … and there is going to be a elementary change of political tradition.”
OLIVIER FAURE, SOCIALIST PARTY
“We have now to do our utmost to reunite the nation. The RN had made the selection of dividing French residents from each other. We should put the nation again on a transparent path and the New Common Entrance should take the lead on this new chapter of our historical past.”
EDOUARD PHILIPPE, FORMER PRIME MINISTER AND LEADER OF CENTRIST HORIZONS PARTY
“We’ll should take heed to the nation, look the world and actuality within the face, and work exhausting to suggest a coherent, strong mission to the French individuals.
“This work, I’m ready to say, cannot be the work of a single man or a small group of experts, it must bring together the widest possible range of intelligence and experience.
“The credibility of our nation might be broken by this and the centrist political forces should with out compromise make an settlement to stabilize politics however with out France Unbowed and the RN.”
POLISH PRIME MINISTER DONALD TUSK
“In Paris enthusiasm, in Moscow disappointment, in Kyiv aid. Sufficient to be completely satisfied in Warsaw.”
PAOLO GENTILONI, EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER FOR ECONOMY
“Vive la Republique!”
NILS SCHMID, MEMBER OF GERMAN PARLIAMENT AND FOREIGN POLICY SPOKESPERSON FOR SPD PARTY IN THE BUNDESTAG
“The worst has been avoided… The president is politically weakened, even if he retains a central role in view of the unclear majority situation. Forming a government will be complicated.”
