June 9, 2024: In response to a massive defeat by his Renaissance party in the European Parliament elections Emmanual Macron dissolves France’s parliament and calls for legislative elections on June 30.
His party garnered 14.5% of the vote with Marine Le Pen’s hard-right party aka far right, radical right, ultra-conservative, Saturn candidate, Jordan Bardella, scoring over 31%. The result was an almost exact replica of the polls.
In his speech Macron stated his snap election was consistent with the principle that ‘the word should be given to the sovereign people.’ He said, ‘France needs a clear majority in serenity and harmony,’ and he could not resign himself to the far-right’s progress ‘everywhere in the continent’.
Le Pen’s National Rally party wants to expel more migrants, stop family reunification, restrict childcare benefits to French citizens, give French nationals preference in accessing social housing and jobs, and withdraw residency for migrants who are out of work for more than a year.
Jordan Bardella will be the party’s candidate for prime minister in the June 30 and July 7 election.
Macron’s power has diminished since he lost his absolute majority in parliament two years ago and he’s hoping his Renaissance party can mount a fight-back at the elections.
If defeated he would not be ousted from office: he still has three years to serve as President. He would retain the lead role on defense as commander-in-chief and on foreign policy but he would lose the power to set domestic policy. But he would need to appoint a new prime minister from the opposition — including, possibly, the National Rally.
Any number of candidates can participate in the first round of voting with the top two candidates contesting a run-off in the second round if no candidate gets more than 25% of the vote.
In an opinion poll on June 10 the National Rally was forecast to win the election but fall short of an absolute majority. There is no certainty the RN would run the government, with or without an alliance with others. Other scenarios include a wide-ranging coalition of mainstream parties, or a completely hung parliament.
Assuming the playing field in a political contest is about equal and both candidates are presenting equally popular policies the winning party will be the one whose leader has the most harmonious (or least discordant) Sun – planet of politics and power – and most favorable house 10 – getting the job.
Marine Le Pen’s chart progressed to June 30, 2024
Birth record data is August 5, 1968 at 11.20am CET: 2E16; 48N53 (Neuilly sur Seine, France)
Sun in house 10 dominates. It’s conjunction Mercury and Mars.
Progressed Sun at 2S51 in house 12 is parallel birth chart Uranus (Jordon Bardella) at 1N55 in house 12; and progressed Midheaven at 13 Virgo 51 in house 11 is semisextile birth chart Sun at 13 Leo 02 in house 10.
Progressed Uranus at 00Libra 06 in house 12 is sextile (opportunity) birth chart Mars at 29 Cancer 49 in house 10; progressed Venus at 4 Scorpio 27 in house 1 is sextile progressed Mars at 5 Virgo 21 in house 11; progressed Mercury at 00 Scorpio 42 in house 1 (her personality) is square (obstacle) birth chart Mars in house 10; and progressed Mars in house 11 is semisquare (friction) birth chart Midheaven at 19 Cancer 40.
Harmony and discord influence house 10. Progressed Moon at 21 Capricorn 50 in house 4 is trine birth chart Pluto at 21 Virgo 15 in house 11.
Jordan Bardella’s chart progressed to June 30, 2024
Birth certificate data is September 13, 1995 at 3.42pm CEST: 48N56; 2E27 (Drancy, France)
His chart’s astrodyne report
Neptune, Uranus and Sun dominate. Neptune and Uranus in house 1 are trine (luck) Sun in house 9 (social media and television) and square Midheaven. Sun is opposition conservative Saturn. Mercury in house 9 is square Neptune. House 10 is high in discord. Mars is there. Venus its cusp ruler is conjunction Sun.
Progressed Sun at 18 Libra 33 and 7S16 in house 9 is inconjunct and parallel progressed Saturn at 19 Pisces20R and 6S22 in house 3; parallel progressed Pluto at 7S14 in house 11; and square progressed ascendant at 18 Capricorn 00 in house 1.
Progressed Midheaven at 23 Scorpio 57 in house 11 is sextile birth chart Sun and trine birth chart Saturn at 21 Pisces 25R in house 3. And progressed Saturn in house 3 is sesquisquare birth chart Mars at 4 Scorpio 10 in house 10.
Progressed Moon at 1 Gemini 20 and 17N27 in house 5 is sesquisquare birth chart Mercury and parallel progressed Midheaven at 17 S43.
His chart plays second fiddle to Le Pens.
Emmanuel Macron’s chart progressed to June 30, 2024
Chart data is December 21, 1977 at 10:40am CET: 2E18; 49N54 (Amiens, France)
Sun planet of politics dominates. It’s opposition Jupiter and trine Saturn.
Progressed Sun at 16 Aquarius 46 in house 1 is sesquisquare birth chart Jupiter at 1 Cancer 17R in house 5; square progressed Uranus at 16 Scorpio 19 in house 9; sextile birth chart Neptune at 16 Sagittarius 21 in house 10; and trine birth chart Pluto at 16 Libra and progressed Pluto at 16 Libra 36R – the cusp ruler of house 10 in house 8.
Progressed Midheaven at 16 Capricorn 42 in house 12 is semisextile progressed Sun at 16 Aquarius 46; sextile progressed Uranus; semisextile birth chart Neptune; square birth chart and progressed Pluto; and progressed Mercury at 1 Aquarius 57 in house 1 is semisquare birth chart Neptune in house 10.
Progressed Moon at 16S35 is parallel progressed Sun at 15S48 and progressed Uranus at 16S20.
Macron’s battled discord for years, much of it due to his own controversial actions, and with progressed Sun square progressed Uranus he was forced (Pluto) into calling a shock, snap election. It was a gamble (Jupiter in house 5) but with progressed Sun trine progressed Pluto – the spiritual planet that rises above self-interest and makes universal welfare a top priority – he has a huge amount of luck on his side.
What happened
In a surprise (Uranus) result a leftist alliance unexpectedly took the top spot with no group winning a majority. It was a major setback for Marine Le Pen’s nationalist, eurosceptic National Rally (RN) which opinion polls had predicted would win the second-round ballot and a blow for centrist President Emmanuel Macron, who called the snap election to clarify the political landscape after his ticket took a battering at the hands of the RN in European Parliament elections in June.
The result left the parliament divided in three big groups – the left, centrists, and the far right – aka a big mess.
On September 5, 2024, after two months of political stalemate Macron named Michel Barnier as France’s new Prime Minister. You can see his chart here
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