The most visible effect of the dissolution of the Assemblée Nationale, pronounced by Emmanuel Macron on June 9, was to have resulted in the dissolution of "Macronism," the political movement born of the wreckage of the right and the left. The astonishment that gripped MPs from the governing coalition after the presidential announcement turned to anger when they realized that the campaign, which had been conceived of as a blitzkrieg, had not been anticipated, that they had no campaign material, and that the party would be of little help to them when trying to save their constituencies in adverse conditions.

The real split came when the leaders of the main components of the governing coalition publicly stopped pledging their allegiance to the president. One by one, François Bayrou (leader of centrist MoDem party), Gabriel Attal (the prime minister, from Macron's Renaissance party), and Edouard Philippe (leader of the center-right Horizons party) cut ties by adopting more or less radical stances: Bayrou, deliberately moderate, expressed his desire to "demacronize" the campaign; Attal, transgressive, set himself up as the potential savior of a floundering coalition, before asking the French people to choose him to be their prime minister if, by chance, he managed to turn things around. Philippe, more aggressive, accused Macron of having "killed the presidential majority." In one fell swoop, all the weaknesses of a political venture that had been organized by and for one man turned against him.

Macronism died from the presidential party's inability to separate itself from him, the man who had created it in order to structure a proposition, set limits and stimulate debate. As the party drifted to the right during his second term in office, his concept of "going beyond" the left-right divide ended up being reduced to an empty shell. However, this did not go so far as to reduce the political center to nought, contrary to what the leaders of the Rassemblement National (RN, far-right), Marine Le Pen, and La France Insoumise (LFI, radical left), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, parties were counting on: As soon as the dissolution was pronounced, they sought to re-impose the left-right divide that they had themselves shaped, to no avail. Le Pen did so by attempting an imperfect takeover of the Les Républicains (LR, right) party; Mélenchon by trying to renew the venture of the left-wing NUPES alliance, under the banner of the Nouveau Front Populaire, albeit less successfully than in 2022. At the end of the day, the political landscape is still structured into three blocs: A center flanked by two extremes, but one which, while it had previously more or less dominated the other two, now appears to be in great difficulty.

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