“France cannot function like this”: Marine Le Pen calls for new legislative elections in 2025

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has called for new parliamentary elections in 2025. MAXPPP – TERESA SUAREZ

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Saturday called for new parliamentary elections next year, saying the country's political situation “cannot hold.”

The political situation "cannot hold", Marine Le Pen said on Saturday, calling for a new dissolution next year, when her group's elected representatives return to the National Assembly.

The president of the National Rally (RN) Jordan Bardella hoped that the RN deputies would embody a "constructive" and "influential" opposition

“It can't hold”

“We find ourselves in a system where the one who has the fewest votes is responsible for forming a government”, pointed out Ms. Le Pen, in reference to the arrival of Michel Barnier from the ranks of LR, at Matignon.

“It can't hold”, “There are ten months left and I am convinced that at the end of these ten months, or in the spring or in the fall, there will be new legislative elections”, she developed.

“Let's hope that this term is the shortest possible", insisted the leader of the RN.

"In the year that followed" 

If her party was put back at the heart of the political game with the arrival of Mr. Barnier at Matignon, under the constant threat of a joint motion of censure from the left and the RN, the leader of the 126 deputies of the RN group nevertheless considered that the "great country that is France cannot function thus".

A position that contrasts with that of Emmanuel Macron, who has made it known that he does not wish to dissolve the National Assembly again before the end of his term at the Élysée.

Mr. Macron cannot pronounce a dissolution of the Assembly “within the year following" the last legislative elections, called following his decision to dissolve this chamber on the evening of the last European elections, on June 9.

Barnier placed "under surveillance" by the RN

A former European Commissioner, Michel Barnier, from the right, was appointed Prime Minister by President Macron two months after legislative elections that failed to produce a majority in the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, which is now divided into three blocs, left, centre right and far right, which complicates the formation of a government team.

As soon as Mr. Barnier was appointed, the radical left, which is part of the left-wing coalition that came out on top in the legislative elections with 193 deputies, called for demonstrations to denounce “a coup de force”, while The extreme right, with its 126 deputies (142 with its allies) claimed to place him “under surveillance”.