Macron calls for a "solid" parliamentary majority "in the best interest of the nation"

Mélenchon affirms that the president's trip abroad shows that he saw the elections as an "administrative procedure"

MADRID, 14 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, has claimed this Tuesday a "solid" majority for the parties that support him, appealing to the "higher interest of the nation" and after the first round left his block practically tied with the alliance of lefts led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Macron has unexpectedly appeared before the media, before leaving for Romania and Moldova, which would account for the concern that has spread in his environment about the possibility that the president would be forced to 'cohabitate' with Mélenchon as prime minister.

Macron has thanked those who placed the current majority bloc "in the lead" in the first round of the presidential elections, but has launched a final plea to "convince" voters to grant France "a solid majority" on Sunday. .

"Nothing will be worse than adding French disorder to world disorder," warned the president, who stressed that "we live in historic times" and gave the military offensive launched by Russia on Ukraine as an example. "We must defend our institutions against those who challenge and weaken them," he said.

Mélenchon has used Macron's journey as a metaphor for the leader leaving when "the ship sinks". For the leftist leader, that the president had planned a visit abroad in the week between the two electoral rounds shows that it was thought that the vote would be a mere "administrative procedure" to continue governing.

In this sense, he stated that Tuesday's appearance at the airport, with the presidential plane in the background, is "the symbol of an era." It is, he added, a "sketch" comparable to those of former United States President Donald Trump where the Elysée tenant wants to warn of the "internal enemy".

Mélenchon has taken for granted in a message published on his website that, whatever happens on Sunday, Macron will not have an absolute majority in the National Assembly and that, in the best of cases, he will be forced to agree with the Republicans, the main centre-right formation in France.