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It feels like Macron said "you guys wont let me govern this country without complaining? Fine, you're all grounded! No government for anyone for 3 years!"
And now finally it’s going to become a caliphate. Just like Britain and soon Germany. The braindead voters should be adjusting their little empty heads to wearing a niqab.
EU MADE SIMPLE -- THANK YOU! Thank you for the elegantly simple explanation and intuitive graphics. As a US resident, the way these parliamentary elections work has always befuddled me. Thank you for doing such a well-thought-out presentation to clarify the French election results. Merci !
I think if the left wing alliance pick a centrist as their pm candidate they might get some of the centrists to support a minority government but france has had like multiple revolutions so who knows
Relative to the population, Switzerland has more different cheeses than France. And government works. France has a long history of people opposed to the central power - kings, self proclaimed emperors and not overly efficient democratic central governments.
These are beautiful democracies ! In France ; you can have 37% of the votes and get only 24% of the seats : In the UK; you can have 33% of the votes and get 67% of the seats...
I'm french and both this video and the one you made before about french elections were extremely accurate, rare to see on the english side of the internet, so keep up the good work
VIVA LA DEMOCRACIA, GANO EL PUEBLO FRANCES PERDIO ESE MAL Y PEQUEÑO GRUPO DE LA OLIGARQUIA NEOLIBERAL. FELICIDADES A LOS CIUDADANOS FRANCESES POR HABER DECIDIDO POR LA IZQUIERDA CUYO LEMA ES "PRIMERO LOS POBRES". DESDE MEXICO.
Hello, French here. Nice video, very well explained. I don't predict the future, but for me, the government will be blocked and Macron will probably dissolve the Assembly next year. The 5th Republic is not meant to have 3 blocs in the Assembly.
@@freedom4639 the show goes on for a few years now lol. After decades between right or left in power, french were exhausted with having no significant change in their lives so Macron created the center and people chose him because they were tired of the others. Now people are tired of the center and they try to come back to left and right.
@@RonJeremy514 What do you mean by "you sabotaged"? You mean me? What's your question? People think differently so they vote differently, are you asking for a dictatorship? If you have one guy to blame it's Macron, he didn't have to dissolve the Assembly but he did it anyway. So we'll lose at least 1 year or 3.
Isn't that how voting usually works? It's not like politics is religion (hopefully), where you see the person you vote for as some kind of absolute greatness you can't criticize.
Loving the way you structure your videos! You broke down a complex topic in a refreshingly simple way. On top of that, you did it in a non-partisan manner. Well done!
It always confuses me how we have newspapers reporting over months how far right everything has become and we will have a far right ensemble and then all of a sudden everyone has a sleep about it and voted for the exact opposite? WTF
Remember how in the US 2016 election the media had Clinton winning and then Trump took it? The mainstream media is deeply out of touch with current society.
@@jeckjeck3119goes to show how brainwashed you are, it's such a great idea to get into a war between two countries who had a peace deal worked out and almost signed until some A hole Britt interfered, like, how can you say that is okay in any good faith?! not to mention France is in no economical position to go play superheroes somewhere in Eastern Europe
Honestly, Macron did this so that the far-right would not win, and I think he knew that he had little chances of winning too. So, really, despite the absolute madness that's about to unfold, Macron still won because he got what he wanted. Or, quoting a terrible movie, "I don't care if I win, I just want Le Pen to lose".
His party's results are way higher than the part of the population it represents. His gamble paid off because he saved his party from becoming irrelevant for now even though it would deserve to become so
That's politics. It's a shame that it's become a chess game for power rather than just letting democracy choose. They are so caught up in winning and pushing their agenda that things are getting worse everywhere.
It is. Macron is a very skilled politician. That's one of the few things I'll give him credit for. France's left-leaning media are clueless to what he's done (they speak of him resigning🤭💀). Its marvelously hilarious that they have no idea. None at all.
I am not French so I am not really involved . I think that it’s most likely a Minority government. The Coalition of Moderates is for me the least likely. But because we are in France the total paralysis is a likely outcome.
@@AmandathePandaBooksNobody on the French left is proposing such things lol. Islamists don't tend to play nice enough with anyone to join a party. The general theme of the left is your typical college student's aNTi cOlONiaLisM shenanigans
@@DarrenMossmannot very good, there’s electrical outages every few hours. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg of what a shit hole South Africa is. White people build there infrastructure and everything during the colonial times, teaching them how to operate and maintain it also. Then as soon as the colonizers leave everything falls apart again. Afrika in general is such a massive money pit its insane, the amounts of trillions of cash moneys we sent them that were either pocketed by corrupt officials or was just wasted on useless projects.
quite bad, Zimbabwe and SA kinda confirm that Africans have no idea what they doing. They need the whites to fix their shit. They tried to rely on the Chinese and soon finding out that it wasn't a good idea. They should have gone the UAE/Saudi route where they allowed Indians to fix their shit if they really don't want the whites. (The Gulf guys import everything and have no idea how to build or maintain infrastructure by themselves, the oil money helps). Hopefully things get better for the Africans as relying on themselves is hopeless. It takes a couple generations of skilled labour to carry on knowledge to build and maintain a nation. This is not a race thing, it's a basic civilization thing. It is only now that the gulf is starting to have people of their own get into the field as they have had enough time and support from other nations. They had to rely on Europeans for financial markets and institutions, Indians for building and maintaining infrastructure and a wide variety of other Asian/African immigrants to fill out low skill jobs. They had plenty money so they could do it in a few decades, Africa doesn't have that luxury, it's gonna take a generation or two. The south Americans are finally getting their shit together and they have close ties and help with USA and revenue from tourism to facilitate it, not to forget the recent good leadership in place in select countries. WE WUZ KANGS attitude isn't gonna get you to wakanda status. Unity, collaboration and lots of help will. Getting rid of extremist religious groups, corruption and warlords would be a great start.
As a frenchman, your video is on point. But I can tell you, if everyone is displeased and there is no government, you'll do another video in exactly one year.
French here: The budget can't really be blocked: the 49.3 rule forces the budget to be approved when the parliament can't agree on it, and was at the beginning created exactly for this purpose. This 49.3 recourse exists to avoid any shutdown situation. In the past years, the 49.3 was used a lot for laws not directly related to the state's budget, which created a lot of tensions in the country. The presidential party used it to pass laws despite not having a majority in the parliament. That's the only complementary information I have to add as the video explains really well the situation in my opinion.
As a French speaker myself from Switzerland who follows closely French politics, people are only seeing part of the picture in this parliamentary election. Let me explain in 5 points : 1. The NFP is a coalition of parties not a single one. The biggest party of this coalition is the Far-Left party France Unbound which counts for around 15% of all French voters. The Socialist Party comes second with around 10%. In the opposite, the seats that the National Rally won are almost exclusively for their party making them almost double their number of seat in parliament from before. 2. The NFP is a very heterogeneous coalition with parties that are always infighting on almost every issue. Like NUPES before, they are really likely to collapse and not endure after the new appointment of Parliament. On issues like Palestine, the EU, Ukraine, economic reforms etc. France Unbound and the Socialist Party for example are complete opposites. Making the collation very likely to collapse in the near future in Parliament. 3. This election fragmented Ensemble and the Republicans. Even if they won more seats than expected, the latter is shifting more and more towards the National Rally because of the left-leaning alliance of Ensemble. There were even splits in the party before the elections. For Ensemble it’s the same, the right-leaning members of Macron’s party are very skeptical of this alliance and are very likely to block initiatives from the left and join a more rightist party for 2027. 4.Like mentioned before, if (or more likely, when) the NFP will collapse, the RN will have a relative majority in Parliament anyway due to the fact that it’s their own party who won the additional seats and not a coalition. 5. The fact that overall the French electorate is more to the right than to the left, like we saw in the first round, is gonna make the situation particularly tense if a left-leaning government is put in place in a deadlock parliament. This will radicalise the right and make it even more popular, due to this feeling of betrayal by the political system of France. And when in 2027 Macron will not be able to present himself again, the situation might become really dire and serious for the entire country due to the polarisation of the entire political spectrum.
You know what they say, the left always eats itself. As a french person, all I have to do is hold out for 3 more years for the RN to come clean up France.
Comment seen on another video some minutes ago! But it's a nice comment I'd only disagree with n3, and the fact LR will join RN. As the split between far right LR and moderate LR has already occur, I think LR Canal Historique will do as less alliance as possible with RN. Let's also state that RN is not rightwing, they are far right. They have close to no common ground with RN when it comes to economy or external affaires. Maybe what's more likely is that LR will join Ensemble for some laws, but even that won't be enough, as they have 165 + 65 < 289 seats. So anyway, it looks liké nothing will come out of the assembly for another year. No progress, but non drawbacks either... Can't know for sure of course.
I am still in disbelief that the French are moving to the right like the lemmings that follow Trump. I always count on France to show us the left was still alive, and her people to always insure it.
Very nice video thanks ! One thing to keep in mind is the left party "Nouveau Front Populaire" is actually 5 differents parties, and they have difficulties to speak as one (For example, on 7th july after the results are displayed, each leader had a different "victory" speach, with different visions on what to do next). So it is not a so united bloc as Ensemble, Rassemblement National or Les Républicains.
@Suksass the one that built society ? Your way literally destroys everything around it. You don't care about victims. You only care about smelling your own farts and acting like you aren't smelling shit.
This has to be a fake comment. You think a channel called “EU Made Simple” is apolitical? 😂 This channel is pro-EU, which means pro-globalism. Globalism and importing cheap labor = good. Nationalism and protecting borders = bad.
VIVA LA DEMOCRACIA, GANO EL PUEBLO FRANCES PERDIO ESE MAL Y PEQUEÑO GRUPO DE LA OLIGARQUIA NEOLIBERAL. FELICIDADES A LOS CIUDADANOS FRANCESES POR HABER DECIDIDO POR LA IZQUIERDA CUYO LEMA ES "PRIMERO LOS POBRES". DESDE MEXICO.
I can't understand why this is 'super unexpected'. National Rally got 34% of the votes in the first round, which also means that 66% did not vote for it. Given that, and the collaboration of Ensemble and the Left block, NR had no chance in the second round to achieve a majority.
Yeah it was obvious from the beginning, if all non RN candidates work together. Don't know why Media calls that a surprise and others fail to explains this, so that all the russians everywhere can call it a "fraud".
Because it's a centrist party so it does particularly well in a runoff. People vote it because they don't want to vote the other candidate. It won't get 50% but it can win in the runoff.
Tactical voting essentially The party you like didn't win? Instead of wasting your vote, you spend it on a party that youre meh with so that the party you actually despise doesn't get the dub
@@truenewsglobalwe aint screwed have you ever seen a day in history a year on our official wiki page where there not at least one riot a year ? Its the damn routine for us the routine ! Its not new we are used to it
Thank you for posting such an informative video. I am a Brit and it seems on the face of it that your system is more Democratic than our ridiculous first-past-the-post system. Our system gave the Reform Party only 5 seats for 4 million votes. I understand how this happens in our system, but in your system how can the Leftists get more seats than Le Pen when her Party had 3 millions more votes? How can you say that they “won?”
@@aneeskhamari747 I'm sure that's what you tell yourself. Just try not to infect your children with your own irrational fears. That's why the world is so messed up. Because people like your parents created cowards instead of scholars or warriors. Tribalism will yield nothing positive for you
@@aneeskhamari747 I'm sure that's what everyone who engages in tribal hostility tells themselves. I'm sorry your parents and education didn't better prepare you for the modern world. Just try not to pass off your own insecurities onto your children, please.
I don't know why you claim that this result was unexpected. It was contrary to the claimed projected seat totals reported by the media. None of these projections factored in the tactical voting that everyone knew was going to happen. The National Rally didn't broadcast that they weren't going to do as well as the projections because they wanted to build up enthusiasm for their party. The opposition didn't point out that the National Rally wouldn't do as well as was projected because they wanted to build up fear of a National Rally victory. Politics is about lying for advantage. The media is part of politics. RU-vid is about getting views even if it requires saying stupid, obviously foolish things..
RU-vid cheered for Le Pen then Macron won, and the cheering stopped. Then they started warning that "Paris will burn" and "France will fall." Every time Parisians would riot, it's "France will fall" and so on. Most seem to be Americans and Brits who lament the effects of mass immigration. But I think the Brits and Americans fail to see that the French are more insistent that all immigrants become French, so it's not really the same situation. Plus, is there a year when the French didn't riot against their government?
Did MAcron gamble paid off? Ensamble lost seats while National Rally doubled theirs. Prior to this snap elections no party had majority but Ensamble was closest to it with 244 seats
Yes his gamble actually paid off sadly, he played dirty and didn't follow NFPs withdrawals as much as they could have, they did want this result of everything being blocked and macron isn't planning to even choose a new government
@@yolo0042 wait, what? how did you not expect them to do this well after the majority of other parties resigned to make macron stronger? i can not think of a more predetermined result (outside russia and NK)
Thats also an issue, that doesnt represent a majority. The issue with france isnt that they dont have that second election but the fact no minority government is being formed
@@AprilHarmony9 I think the US and the UK and France should stop this "winner takes it all" rubbish. With more parties having to negotiate and work out solutions together in coalitions, they have more dialogue and direct democracy where no part of the population feels quite left out. In Scandinavia they sometimes have up to 15 parties to choose from. And those countries are the top countries on the "happiest countries list". Political top skills for the elected: dialogue, negotiations and compromises. The populations of countries are supposed to get along within and not to be on the brink of civil war.
That's a beautiful example of western or left democracy , just let them vote and see what's happening . And if you can't beat your opponent in the first run , then get all parties together to beat him in the second .
@@SussyBaka-zs3kj What is democratic if you make a second vote , cause you lost the first one ? That's something a dictator would do , gathering all parties together to beat one is not very democratic at all . The constitution allows that , but it's more a grey zone . And not very fair for all the voters of RN , that's a reason why so many people don't vote in Europe . 66% only , no matter what you vote for , they do what they want anyways . Why the hell the lefties rally , if they won ? 😅
Yes if you have a party most people absolutely don't want they'll vote for the coalition of people they don't hate as much. Shocking, the majority of people can pick who does or does not rule. They would have lost in proportional representation, and in ranked choice voting too. That's what happens when most people actively dislike your party.
democracies lead to dictatorship because people elect people that destroy the country. france of all countries knows this. you just voted to replace your culture.
@@leeroyjenkins0 But my party is the only one that protects the nation of those evil immigrants. My party is the only one that hinders spreads the hate against them. My party is the only one that wants to lower the taxes of the rich. You see, my party is the best.
@@ulrich7404Oh please, they have far left sympathies, all social democrats can turn at any moments notice into a communist, after all social democracy is deeply rooted in communist ideology
As an outside trying to keep up with the political sport in France, how much of the party’s far-left or far-right is in name only or a byproduct of inevitable shift of the Overton Window?
I always find it amusing when certain political groups talk about the importance of democracy, but when parties they don't like win immediately begin to conspire to remove them from power or artificially prevent them from taking seats that they won.
it's almost like the majority of people don't like fascism and that splitting the anti fascist vote would make the fascist get elected which would be counter point
Exactly. the far right loses, and suddenly the results are "rigged", or a "coup" or "cheated". It's quite obvious the far-right have zero respect for democracy, and would happily destroy it to allow a Putin/Orban style authoritarian dictators to loot the country.
This isn't the case here though, they had not won yet this is just a strategy they agree on and call on their voters to follow. This has been going on for a while and conspire isn't the right term everyone in France knows that if the National Rally gets to the second round of anything, each party that wasn't selectioned (except maybe Renaissance) calls on their voters to vote for one of the parties they are facing, then it's up to the voters to follow or note. We call this the Far Right Barricade as in the history of the National Rally there are literal nazis and not the ones twitter would have you believe everyone is, actual ones and so usually people are more on the "anything but this" but the National Rally has been working rather hard in the last 30 years to try to rebrand and it seems to be working as they are gaining more and more voters.
As a french, I'm both happy and worried. I feel like we just put a probem under the rag. In the short term, the current situation is actually the best I could hope for, no absolute majority for RN or NFP who both have crazy programs that will just ruin France. However, I feel like the next 3 years will be chaotic, and we observed that chaos only pushes voters closer to RN. So I'm worried that the current situation is only opening a boulevard for RN for the next presidential election in 2027. A scenario where the RN would have got a relative majority (switch between NFP and RN) would maybe have been better as they would have been forced to try to rule and fail, and therefore harness all the anger of voters... Only time will tell...
Le RN refusait de former un gouvernement sans majorité absolue, car ils savent que leurs mesures sont impopulaires sur le reste de l'échiquier politique (les lois racistes) et ne passeraient qu'avec des députés RN. D'un autre côté, le NFP peut former un gouvernement minoritaire, en s'appuyant sur le RN pour la partie sociale de leur programme, et en s'appuyant sur le centre pour la partie qui concerne les droits humains. Je ne suis pas sûr que le pays soit si ingouvernable que ça !
Why is it surprising?? The people are tired and fed up of being treated like slaves!! This is the new way to govern, there has to be and equilibrium between taking care of people while giving Corporations the opportunity to thrive!
Lib dems were much more effective at targeting their advertising and campaigns to the specific seats where they were likely to win. Reform voters on the other hand… well, they’re not the brightest, and so didn’t vote tactically
@@bountifulauto8257 I do agree, but I think even more representative systems like ranked choice voting would have returned very poor results for reform. The reality is that, even if a large number of people strongly support you, if the *majority* of people strongly oppose you, then the most democratic result is that you do not win that seat.
damn and they laugh at us in america hahahaha. No keep your million party system over there europe I dont want a million votes a seat here that would suck
