There is much to wait in France in 2025, a good year of vacation, some excellent sporting events and festivals and some great travel changes. But should we prepare for more elections?
Normally, this would not be just a question, since in France the elections are held in a fixed cycle with presidents, parliamentarians and mayors elected in fixed terms (generally for five years), which makes it possible to predict in advance being of Holdions.
The next elections scheduled in France are not until 2026, they are Municipal injuries Where mayors and local councilors are elected.
However, these are not normal times.
The collapse of the Michel Barnier government at the end of last year means that they are possible additional or even presidential parliamentary elections in 2025.
Parliamentary elections
Elections to select Députés Sitting in the National Hero of the Assembly in the regular cycle in 2022 and produced a Parliament in which no part had a general majority. In the summer of 2024, Emmanuel Macron called additional Snap elections to try to produce some clarity: it is fair to say that the failure and parliament ended at a complete dead point.
It was this stagnation that led to the fall of the Barnier government in December 2024.
Althegh France now has a new government under the central prime minister François Bayrou, his position remains fragile and Bayrou himself could fulfill the same destination as Barnier.
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However, the French Constitution establishes that it must be at least one year among parliamentary elections, which means that the first elections that can be called in 2025 is July 13.
But is this likely?
Here is the opinion of the local policy expert John Lichfield: “I don’t see how Macron can avoid it.
“When a new choice is possible in July, the clamor that will happen will be very strong, I suspect, because there is not much agreed before that.
“Will the elections occur in July? I doubt it. Having an choice in the middle of the French holidays, because it would have to be at the end of July or in August, it is not very likely. I suspect that we have an election, which I think will be in September.
“But if there is an election in September, it will produce a Parliament much more clearly aligned in one way or another than this? I doubt it.
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“Parliament, in a way, reflects a three -way division in the country, between the radical left, the distant nationalist right and a central section of people who take ancient, consensual and proeuropea politics.
“I do not see that these three limits change a lot in a parliamentary election: the presidential elections are different, only two can enter the second round and anyone has to balance in one way or another.
Ok, then, what about a presidential election?
As with the parliamentarians, the French presidents are elected in a fixed term: Macron was re -elected in 2022 and his mandate extends to the spring of 2027. Macron himself cannot run in 2027 since the French presidents are limited to two consecutive terms, but could cause a previous election if he chose to resign.
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There are bone calls from several politicians to do this. Immediately after Barnier was deposed, Mathilde Panot of the strong left of France, Insumise, told journalists: “Now we are asking Macron to go. Drushing Barnier is the respect of the vote of the French and the sovereignty of people.”
“Chaos is not us, is Emmanuel Macron, and by this vote, it is the entire Macron policy that has fallen.”
Macron himself, however, firmly ruled that during his TV speech to the nation in early December, saying: “The mandate that gave me democratically (in 2022) is a five -year mandate and I will exercise it completely.”
In France, an presidency ends early for one of the three reasons; The president renounces, they die in office or are accused.
The political trial requests the support of a minimum of two thirds of the parliamentarians in order, an attempt earlier this year of accusing Macron presented by the LFI party of Panot could not meet enough) in the first stage in the first stage.
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