By SYLVIE CORBET
PARIS (AP) — After profitable one other 5 years within the French presidential palace, Emmanuel Macron intends to return to work straightaway on home and overseas coverage — however he’ll quickly face essential parliamentary elections the place he might wrestle to maintain his majority.
Right here’s a take a look at what comes subsequent for Macron and his management of France.
INAUGURATION CEREMONY
The Constitutional Council will publish the presidential election’s official outcomes on Wednesday and Macron will maintain a Cupboard assembly.
Macron will then must set a date for his inauguration ceremony, which have to be held by Could 13, on the Elysee Palace. He’ll obtain the Nationwide Guards’ honors and make a speech.
Often, 21 cannon pictures are fired to mark an inauguration, though Presidents Francois Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac each skipped that custom for his or her reelections in 1988 and 2002. Macron is the one different chief of contemporary France to win a second time period on the poll field.
MACRON’S FIRST MOVES
Like 5 years in the past, Macron plans to shortly head to Berlin, in keeping with the custom that newly elected French presidents make their first journey overseas to neighboring Germany to have fun the international locations’ friendship after a number of wars. He’ll meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, with efforts to attempt to finish the warfare in Ukraine topping the agenda.
In some unspecified time in the future, he may additionally journey to Kyiv to fulfill with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a visit he stated he would solely do given that it could have “a helpful impression.” Macron spoke to each Zelenskyy and Scholz inside hours of his victory.
U.S. President Joe Biden tried to congratulate Macron on Sunday night time too, however informed reporters, “I spoke to his employees and he was on the Eiffel Tower having a very good time.” The 2 leaders spoke briefly Monday as an alternative, and agreed to carry longer talks quickly about help for Ukraine, strain on Russia to barter an finish to the warfare, meals safety and deepening U.S.-EU relations, in line with Macron’s workplace.
On Could 9, Macron is anticipated to make a speech on Europe in Strasbourg, dwelling to the EU parliament.
At dwelling, he stated one in all his priorities might be to cross by summer season a regulation to help buying energy amid the surge in meals and power costs fed by the battle in Ukraine.
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
Prime Minister Jean Castex is anticipated to submit his authorities’s resignation within the coming days. Macron will then appoint a brand new caretaker authorities, however ministers will solely be in place for just a few weeks.
France’s nationwide parliamentary election, held in two rounds on June 12 and June 19, will resolve who controls a majority of the 577 seats on the Nationwide Meeting. If Macron’s celebration wins, he’ll identify a brand new authorities and can be capable to cross legal guidelines.
If one other celebration will get a majority of seats, he might be pressured to nominate a major minister belonging to that new majority. In such a scenario, known as “cohabitation” in France, the federal government would implement insurance policies that diverge from Macron’s mission. The French president would have sway, nevertheless, over the nation’s overseas coverage.
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Will Weissert in Washington contributed.
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Observe AP’s protection of the French election at https://apnews.com/hub/french-election-2022
