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Following a laborious start to his second term that had fueled worries that listlessness was gripping the presidency, Mr. Macron rejected the idea that the country was headed for five years of “immobilism” after he lost his absolute majority last month in the lower house of Parliament.

“There will be a trend toward immobilism, toward lame compromises, toward not resolving problems,” he said.

It’s a kind of immobilism, and it will work, but it will still leave us in 2022 with a National Front saying, “This is not good enough. We’re being hammered by global capitalism, and we have to come up with an insular, protectionist, anti-immigration, authoritarian response.”

“We must have a break with this immobilism,” said another voter, Amadou Mustapha Gaye, a secretary to a school principal.

In five years, the men of immobilism who had governed France had been found wanting�so wanting that 5,400,000 voters cast their ballots for the Communists and gave the Communists increased representation in Parliament.