Historic coalition marks changing of the guard for French left ahead of legislative elections
When the French left has unified before they have made stuff happen. It's a rare occurance, there is alot of bad blood between the different French left wing groups. For the Socialists it's a step away from the Social Liberal era of Hollande back towards, well, Socialism. With Melenchon as the lead things will get interesting. If the left had been united in the Presidential election, they would have been in the second round. However Legislative elections are a different beast, a first-past-the-post (kind of) situation where winning constituencies is the name of the game. In France there is a two round process where the two main candidates face of against each other in a second round if neither has more than 50% of the vote. In many cases if a left wing candidate ends up against a Macronist or a Republican in the second round, the odds are against them.
Very interesting and the news I'm reading makes it sound questionable whether the Republicans will want to work with Macron to secure/form that majority. Sounds like large gains for the far left and the far right.ROUND 2!!!!!!!!!
BREAKING: Macron does not have a majority!
France elections: Macron set to lose parliamentary majority — projection
Most seats: Yes. A majority: No. Most likely he has to move to the right and work with the Republicans, to secure parliamentary majority. For the Left this was a large undertaking, they had no real chance of winning, but they managed to gain enough seats to deny a majority for Macron. They can build on this.
Also the Far Right increased their seats making Marine le Pen a stronger force in the legislative.
French legislative elections live: Macron’s bloc short of absolute majority, leftist coalition second, large gains for far right
So?Don't give a flying fig about France's concerns while I am watching the U.S. being destroyed
So don't come to the global politics forums then.Don't give a flying fig about France's concerns while I am watching the U.S. being destroyed
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