it's not because they're named communist that they are far left, they are not what imagine communists are like and RN is not far right because they're "just anti immigration", it's much more than that
Actually, the communist party has been part of left leaning governments since the 80' and were part of the 'Gauche plurielle' government 10 years ago, when Macron was the economy minister (before creating his own centrist party). So, yes, it wouldn't be the same thing as a far-right government.
they're not, almost party of the left wing allied this time which isn't just the communist but also ecologist and socialist. but the way the communist party is considered far left. That being said they do have some very vocal and present speaker.
@@VoidOperator well the President is the head of state (like the King in the UK but with more power for example), he deals with international affairs, diplomacy and general agenda of the government whiles the Prime Minister mainly deals with domestic affairs (being from the majority party of parliament), he names his ministers, passes new laws, etc.
@@florimond. And interestingly other EU countries that's reversed, the PM usually has more power (Poland, Czech, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lux, Malta, Netherlands, Slovak, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Britian), with the President having administrative and internal affairs. Germany (Chancellor) and Ireland (Taoiseach) are different. The countries with President as head of state is Cyprus, France, Lithuania, Romania (and out of EU the USA of course and others) At least as far as I understand from America, trying to figure out how all the various democracies work.
She has pitched no income tax for people under 30. This is as far right as economic policy goes before you are straight up libertarian. They're talking about the "de-islamisation" of french society. Which means what exactly? Sounds very much like far right rhetoric à la early 19th century fascism. While her father led the party it was denying the holocaust and talked of deporting 3 million muslims. Marine Le Pen has distanced herself from these last points, but it would be naive to think that the people who supported such policies no longer exist within the party. Maybe the party is no longer "far right", but it's definitely still very right with some very shady characters and open (at some years ago) racists/xenophobes. I agree that the term "far right" gets flung out way too much, but FN is definitely one of the furthest right parties in Europe.
She has pitched no income tax for people under 30. This is as far right as economic policy goes before you are straight up libertarian. They're talking about the "de-islamisation" of french society. Which means what exactly? Sounds very much like far right rhetoric à la early 19th century fascism. While her father led the party it was denying the holocaust and talked of deporting 3 million muslims. Marine Le Pen has distanced herself from these last points, but it would be naive to think that the people who supported such policies no longer exist within the party. Maybe the party is no longer "far right", but it's definitely still very right with some very shady characters and open (at some years ago) racists/xenophobes. I agree that the term "far right" gets flung out way too much, but FN is definitely one of the furthest right parties in Europe.
She has pitched no income tax for people under 30. This is as far right as economic policy goes before you are straight up libertarian. They're talking about the "de-islamisation" of french society. Which means what exactly? Sounds very much like far right rhetoric à la early 19th century fascism. While her father led the party it was denying the holocaust and talked of deporting 3 million muslims. Marine Le Pen has distanced herself from these last points, but it would be naive to think that the people who supported such policies no longer exist within the party. Maybe the party is no longer "far right", but it's definitely still very right with some very shady characters and open (at least some years ago) racists/xenophobes. I agree that the term "far right" gets flung out way too much, but FN is definitely one of the furthest right parties in Europe.
Your argument crumbles precisely because the right exists and also want to reduce immigration. Far right is characterised by conservative social values, xenophobia, cult of authority and strong leaders, anti-elite discourse and populist policies. The RN program checks all of these boxes, the right only checks some of them to some extent.
There's nothing wrong with the policy of "national self-preservation" on issues of internal security regarding unlimited immigration of Islamist & that Putin nuclear threat, annexations & gunpoint referendum.
My guess is that Le Pen will stay in 1st place after 2nd election, but they will not get the majority, so most likely a deadlock unless RN forms with LR (if they even manage to get something...)
Yes and no - far right victories in e.g. Scandinavia, Germany, Poland, Netherlands have put the utter incompetence of people who trigger fear as a reason to vote. They need to be elected to be kicked out the next time - the trick is to limit the damage they do in the process. Similar cycle happening with Farage in UK.
In denmark we have a tradition for compromises between the blocks This is hard work but good results are created that benefit all. The far left and far right are in most cases excluded from the deals
Not really, Macron is more a semi-passive passenger rather than a machiavellian politician in this instance. His party losing its relative majority was a certainty. Also, He was already passing laws on shaky ground (using the 49.3 article to force them through Parliament, at the risk of Parliament forcing a dissolution). With Macron's party fall during the EU Elections, the de-facto alliance with LR (Conservatives) would have broke, forcing the dissolution.
@@tomlundquist8093 as they should be. But really I'd love to have compromise between the parties here in Czechia. They're incompetent and our directions lead to the small far-right and large populist blocks. Left is definitely gone now and only centre-right conservatives are somewhat the last pro democracy party. Though, they're corrupt and nonfunctional. We are cooked.
Because far-left are the revolutionaries, the trotskists...they do not want to win through election, but through revolution. We do have some far-left candidates in France, but they are only there to show they still exist. Their purpose in an election is not to win, just to show off. They make between 2 and 5% off the counted votes.
These terms are not easily moved measures of popularity. Far right means holding to a set of policies that are broadly and commonly found in far right movements. Le Penn is quite objectively far right.
Well because the far left didn’t nearly win the elections. I mean if you’re actually an idiot, then voting for RN is smart I suppose. Though in that aspect you’re likely uneducated on history.
Just to clarify something for 4:06 : this isn't really the case Melenchon asked for 'no more votes nor seats for the RN', and told their candidates to withdraw if in third place. The policy is clear, no need to explain further. Macron, on his side, called for 'a large rally clearly democratic and republican' against the far right, which may sound similar. The thing is that, for months now, and even more during this campain, the strategy of its side was to call the NFP 'extremists', 'antisemitic' and say that they're trying to dismantle and destroy the republic, even saying himself that a NFP victory would lead to a civil war. By saying 'clearly', he stays in its position without sounding too forgiving with the far right, he justs asks for votes for himself. So no, Macron isn't really asking to vote against the RN, but rather to vote for his party, saying he's the best defense against the far right. Like he did since 2017.
@@TillBarkley Honestly? Hard to tell. I think some will, but not all. Attal, the prime minister, called for a real front, and called for a withdraw if in third position, but other influent ministers and politicians from his side (Le Maire, Berger, or Philippe for example) said that 'oh, it depends, I won't call to vote for LFI (the main party in the NFP). So no clear position, no clear idea, which is a clever move in itself. They don't clearly call for a barrage against the RN which would give weight to the NFP, and they get to say that they did after the election. Like we say in France, 'the butter and the ass of the butter maker'. It's a dangerous position to hold, but they don't lose anything in having it. Except some dignity and trust in the political world, but it's screwed already so who cares
@@TillBarkley From what I have seen, it depends on who the Popular Front candidate is. If they are from the Socialists or the Greens, who are establishment left leaning parties, they will step aside. If it’s from LFI or other far left parties, they will stay in the race.
this was a very clear video. I just wanted to ad that this election has broke record of votes by procuration (meanning that people who cannot vote in their district give their vote to a person of their choosing), with 2 millions of such votes.
@@kennethshowers9144 No, they're not. You know nothing about France. Some people are already on holiday. They save money for 11 months for that. So, if I had planned to go to the beach for three weeks six months ago and bought my tickets, believe me, elections or not, I'll take my holidays, even if most of the French take their holidays in August.
@@sophiewanlin8612 Sorry, I've forgotten to mention I am a 50+ years old educated french one who spend a lot ot time listening to many people dealing with politics, most of them not on TV. I am not Jon Snow... I agreed with you about holidays' influence but it is not so huge. McKinsey's representative uses those leaving in Ehpads, who are stuck in front of a TV continuously telling them what to think and what to do, to increase his score, even without considering pure fraud. I do like I. Aberkane quote about that: "Ils sont télé guidés"
@@kennethshowers9144 _"I am a 50+ years old _*_educated_*_ french one who spend a lot ot time listening to many people dealing with politics"_ _" _*_Aberkane_*_ quote..."_ 🤣 By the way I don't know what McKinsey's theory you are refering to. Private organisations cannot just send people into residential care/retirement homes to get procurations. Procurations for elderly people in retirement homes are regulated by law, and for residents that aren't mentally able to take decisions on their own, the families in charge must give their approval for any procuration. At any rate individual procurations cannot be handled by any private third party.
French here, i think we will have no majority. We have a lot of far right voters but also a lot of voters that want anything but far right. I have a hard time seeing a coalition between macron and the left, but it's not impossible if there's no other alternative
You can’t keep the far right away forever. If they don’t get majority now they will soon. The more goes wrong the more people will realize the far right will be the answer
There's a detail seemingly overlooked by many, when looking at national scores. RN and NFP both had candidates in all 577 constituencies, but Ensemble, Macron's coalition didn't. They strategically withdrawed from a lot of areas, in favor of moderate candidates from the left and the right. So despite scoring less than NFP on the national level, they managed to get second place in lots of places. Won't win them a majority, but that was never the goal for Macron. He wants one thing, a parliament where he could manage to find a majority with moderates from both side, so he can widen his base. It's clearly a long shot, but with his dissolution he changed the narrative. In 2022, every other party was campaigning against Macron, as he just won the presidency, and traditionally the president get an absolute majority. But he failed at that, and we had for 2 years a parliament with an absolute majority of deputies hostile to the government. But now, with his seemingly low score, he's not even considered the challenger. So those who're gonna get elected next sunday will have campaigned against RN, and his party could still find themselves as the second largest group in parliament, since the NFP will split up to seat with their respective parties after the election.
OK, so I'm not French, and while the explanation in the video was good, I'm wondering whether Macron's party could either join a ruling coalition with RN or with some other party or parties. Also, it wasn't clear to me what happens if no governing coalition is formed. Does Macron pick the Prime Minister or does a new election need to be held?
In our system the president picks whoever he wants as prime minister. But to make sure this new government does not get fired immediatly, he is kind of forced to pick a candidate from the party having the most seat in the assembly After the second turn, our Law says that a new dissolution of the parliament is impossible until next year.
I live and vote in France and would have saved myself a lot of time this morning by waiting for this to 'pop' up in my YT feed instead of trying to find out who would be in 2nd round!! Those candidates wishing to pull out have until tomorrow at 6pm.
I absolutely baffled how an entire nation can take their freedom for granted. After WWII all of Europe was in shambles and had to rebuild and cherished the freedom the just won, and now so many French citizens want to keep going far left. It’s the same insanity we are facing in the US. If anything, it just shows how spoiled these countries have been, and how easy they’ve had it for the last 80 years.
@@iamseamonkey6688 If they don't win a majority next sunday, which is most likely, the left alliance will be over. They will seat with their respective parties, and start fighting again.
Mmmhh, no. He actually made a great long term move that will save his movement. He gave highly poisoned gift to his enemies. His 2 main competitors in the moderate side, The Socialist Party and the Republicans, completely blew up due to those elections, making his party the only moderate option. If he waited for 2027, his party would have been wiped out. Now, Ensemble is the only moderate party and extremists will lost their legitimacy in minority government that will be powerless. That is only honestly a genius move.
It becomes an urban legend. Unfortunately the truth is that Macron visited restaurants in the street opposite for 2 hours to actually speak with owners telling him that they were having difficulty recruiting waiters and that they had positions to fill immediately. And the rest, we know it, from there Macron meets an unemployed horticulturist who says he has difficulty finding a job. As we see, it doesn't take much to be seen as an asshole.
Mainly the open bigotry against minorities, in particular in recent years blaming anything and everything on immigration. But also the willingness to force other people to go along with their plans even if it destroys basic human rights and the democratic nature of the system.
@@SunbeamGiant Mostly being exposed to immigrants' violence, littering and different religions. It's a cultural shock and they think it's necessary to protect their culture
@@Taladar2003 Far-right is different in most countries though, here in austria far right is considered if you believe in total austrían superiority over any other ethnicity (basically FPÖ) I for example do not support that. And unfortunately we don't have any other party that would actually do anything against all the muslim terrorists in our country. But that would societally be viewed a centre-right or just normal right here.
@@carraway8084 no? in video it was said the party is created from small green, socialist, even communist parties with SJW agenda at front and all buzzwords so how do you classify that party? Or its just that Overtone window shifted so much to left that far left don't exist and everything right is automatically far right?
NFP is made from political party from the whole spectrum of the left branch, including far left but also center left. it's just that their most "charismatic" (for lack of a better terms) leaders are from the far left so everyone else forget that the center left are also here...
@@kalzhae There are no far-left parties currently involved in this election, as restated by the board of state. Yes, even the communist party is not far-left.
Okay...I'm the first to announce I have next to no idea about French politics or it's political system. The good news, that doesn't matter as I am not a French citizen. But starting from a point of nearly zero knowledge about the French political system and assuming this video is accurate...this video is fantastic. The best possible explanation and all under seven minutes...just amazing. I am ignorant of most things European (in fact I'm ignorant, plain and simple) but after watching this video I feel more enlightened about France's system...and appreciate France a little more than before. Thank You for making this available.
The system seems to be a tad better than the UK system at least. "Ganging up" to stop the "far-right" was tried in Sweden as well in the 2010s. Only thing that happened was that the "far-right" grew even stronger, because none of the fundamental issues were addressed, and people got even more pissed.
The "fundamental issues" aren't adresses by the RN. I invite you to take a look at the insane amount of racism and batshit crazy candidates they have lol
You see everyone, this is what happens when you are messing with the pension system, people do not want to work more than their parents to get their pensions and pensioners do not wish that the ones they already have go down. Any Government who tried to mess with this is bound to lose next election, as we have seen yesterday.
Nobody wants to work until their mid 60s. I'm 40 and I am just about ready to retire, mentally and physically, since I have been working non-stop since I was 14. But where will all the money come from to finance France's insanely generous welfare system? Especially with an ever ageing population. The Greeks were of the same mindset and by 2008 they had to BORROW BILLIONS EVERY YEAR just to be able to afford to pay their pensions.
@@mrgrumpy888 Yes, let's send the whole Eurozone into a crash AGAIN because you are too lazy to work till your mid 60's. Buddy, I will have to work till my mid 75's, so you can go into retirement at 65. Get a grip my guy, you are messing up the lives of the next generations already.
also if the government goes in a deadlock situation, the president possibly has the grounds to use article 16 of the constitution which enables him to have the legislative power in addition to the executive power. It was used once in 1961 by De Gaulle when the Generals in Algeria did a coup.
This is only allowed in case of land invasion by a foreign power or existential threat to the republic. Other kind of problem are solved with "L'Etat d'urgence" pronounced by the prime minister and its ministers. So.. no, our President will not be able to use article 16 to bypass a cohabitation
@@philippedefaria3139 no also when the institutions cannot work. But the definition is probably to be found in the fine lines. "Lorsque les institutions de la République, l'indépendance de la Nation, l'intégrité de son territoire ou l'exécution de ses engagements internationaux sont menacés (1) d'une manière grave et immédiate et que le fonctionnement régulier des pouvoirs publics constitutionnels est interrompu, le Président de la République prend les mesures exigées par ces circonstances, après consultation officielle du Premier ministre, des Présidents des Assemblées ainsi que du Conseil constitutionnel."
No. This absolutely has nothing to do with cohabitation (so called deadlock, which it actually isn't). If those two things happen at the same time, it will be a coincidence. Last time, it had nothing to do with a cohabitation, as you might have noticed. Also, all legal experts are saying article 16 wouldn't even apply, but unfortunately we have a fucked up constitution where Macron gets to decide that pretty much on his own, with almost no checks and balances… and he isn't exactly known for listening to what anyone has to say.
@@NicoMCH666 There’s actually no way to know that before Sunday night. There’s a lot more room for surprise than what this video tells us. Don’t listen to projections, they’re almost worthless. Right now, almost anything could still happen. If you don’t believe me, go read Arrêt sur image’s latest article.
Macron IS a disaster, but you think that an even more right-wing, even more bourgeois party will be any better for the economic life of the average working person? They will just double down on the same economic policies as Macron, the ones that the capitalist ruling class gives them both to go forward with. Only difference is that they will crack down even harder on already marginalized groups.
@@Gordon_Freeman_PhD it seems you don't understeand why people vote right, people vote right because they don't want France to be turned into syria and mozambique, the main issue today is replacement taking place in our countries
@@shaycormac3219 The main reason that seems to matter in the first place is that that immigrants are used as scapegoats by the capitalist ruling class to blame the workers' worsening economic conditions onto anyone but themselves. There is nothing that the ruling class, in control of the state and with all the money and power, likes more than working people being convinced that other working people are the reason for their misery. It is true that immigrant labour drives down wages, but that would not be a problem in the first place were it not for capitalism, and it cannot be solved on the basis of capitalism because it will find any way to bring down the cost of labour. Capitalism itself is a globalizing system, but I don't see anyone on the right actually suggesting anything to do about capitalism other than to try to treat symptoms with such hopeless measures as economic protectionism, which just makes new problems.
@@ryanfoo5286 See my response above. Economics is at the source of the problem. The only reason cultural differences of refugees are even seen as a threat is because they became associated with economic hardship and instability which is inherent to capitalism.
What's wrong with deadlock? Do we really want government to do a lot of things? Do you think that will improve anything? Look at the places where that doesn't happen. Nobody wants to live there.
Thanks, I’ve watched multiple videos on the French elections but none explained the actual system or gave proper insight on the current situation. This was very helpful
There is a coalition to the left. Besides, the far-left has no issue being called "far-left". Far-right still has to "come out", and I believe they would should they win the majority of seats (God forbid).
@@ahfei6847 This is going to sound crazy, but just listen along. I ran an analysis of all 577 seats and made a prediction based off the first round and applying it to my model. What it came out saying was: RN 191 NFP 170 Ensemble 164 Republicans 52 The media is hyping up a “Far Right victory” for clicks. The media doesn’t care about what the mathematics say if it won’t give them clicks. Showing how I’m not crazy, Le-Pen won 163 seats while macron won 441 in the Presidential election in 2022.
It's not an opinion but a fact: the National Rally is officially classified by the "Conseil d'Etat" (one the highest judicial court of France) as a far right party.
No it is far-right actually, they check all the boxes: radically conservative, ultra-nationalist, authoritarian, and fervently anti-immigration. On the flip side, none of the main left-wing parties in France right now can be called "far-left". That would be authoritarian marxism and anarchism for reference.
As a French person I am SO glad you're asking for my opinion because you so deeply care about it and TOTALLY not just because it boosts your ranking for the algorithm
Please do a video about other countries too, especially important countries like Germany but also mby Austria, Netherlands or Czechia (some smaller ones)
As a French guy, calling rn a far right party is insulting. Their program is very mild in comparison to other countries, but French politics became incredibly politically correct and let’s say it: stupid (anyone can enter and have every benefits of out generous social system, and if stay more than 5yeard or have a kid here get the nationality automatically. Impossible to send someone illegal out nor keep them from coming in). Their « most radical » proposition is to send back illegals who committed a crime… in other words: waiting to have an innocent citizen hurt, robbed or worst to do so, where everywhere else if you caught in illégal situation you are put out… this country became a shame… 😢
I would say that the most realistic scenario is one of a regime crisis where no one has an absolute majority. However, we must also consider that with 270 seats for the RN, they could potentially team up with LR for 19 seats - but this alliance would be costly for the RN (a LR prime minister for instance).
Any deal with RN will wipe LR off the map. Some MPs might switch over to RN but I highly doubt that the party as a whole will commit suicide like this.
@@mrgrumpy888 Their only other option is to go with Macron's collapsing central block. Moderate LR can either choose to remain independent with their 10%, or team up with a diminishing force in Macron's party... or team up with RN on specific policies. They really aren't in a position to be picky.
After the first round of the 2022 presidential election, I simply stopped voting because I felt like none of the major political forces at the time were aligned with my views, in a few extremes too much. So I didn't vote for the EU elections, and the dissolution of the assembly was sort of a shock to me, because for yet another time the far right had a serious shot at governing, but it wasn't in second place anymore. So I went and despite my reluctance to endorse some of their more extreme views and representatives, I voted NFP. And last night was a frigthening realization that from now to 2027 and beyond, shit's about to go crazy in my country, no matter where my ballot lands.
@@s0mefrench Thanks for the reply. Why the NFP and not Macron’s party or Le Pen’s? Personally if I were French I would vote for NR as strictly statistically speaking many of your problems are due to uncontrolled immigration and doubling down on it would be a good strategy for the future in my opinion. Also what happened during the last years that Macron fell from favor that hard?
@@bigczad9869This is absolutely not true though... Mass immigration has nothing to do with most of the issues in our country and there is no "mass immigration" per se. France is one of the most strict countries in the EU when it comes to the visa policy... So I'm genuinely curious what your source was/is ?
@@bigczad9869 because nowadays, they put all persons that are not left in the same bucket of “racist”, and so even those who are not racist they feel ashamed or afraid to be called racist. Bardella himself is son of immigrants…
Mozambique is a majority Catholic country with a culture somewhat similar to the Portuguese one (which is similar to the French). There is only a region in Northern Mozambique named Cabo Delgado which was affected by Boko Haram's Islamic terrorists a few years ago but things have mostly calmed down with the presence of "fuzileiros" up there.
Because you have no political culture you don’t know that the RN is precisely one of the few parties where you can find fierce pro-Assad supporters, and because of its xenophobia, tribalist rhetoric, cult of authority and social conservatism, is more likely to turn France into a thirld-world authoritarian regime than any other party.
Communist have no power now, the totalitarist far right party wich want to restrict freedom in fonction of your religion, origin and job seems more dangerous.
Meanwhile elections here in India is fought by campaigning 1. 20% VS 80% ( Muslim VS hindu) 2. Temple VS Mosque 3. Hatred VS hatred 4. Violence VS violence Etc
I was born in France and left several years ago, all I see over the years when I visit, is France decaying more and more. They had these results coming. You just have to listen citizen in the streets. RN secured A LOT of votes from people that are not far right minded, they are not racist or nationalists whatsoever, they are simply sick and tired of the country’s immigration policies that went to far.
A lot of countries are also sick of France in the world, good thing they kicked the french out. French can stay in their country and not use their former colonies for explotation.
@@guillaumesurget8298 Indeed he does, brother! Sure he did mistakes but compared to our current batch of leaders worldwide (and future ones to come), he truly cares about the people and Humanity as a whole. Maybe one day...
What does it say about French voters that 1 in 5 voted for a communist candidate in round 1, and the far right party heading into round 2 will be counting on the communist vote to win? Have the people of France forgotten the lessons of WWII and the Cold War so quickly?
Let us all hope RN and Le Pen la chienne dont win the elections and lose their voters in the future, we have enough neo-facist countries in Europe already (Russia, Belarus, Türkiye, Hungary, Slovakia, Italy, Netherlands)
Why are 'far right' ideas like not allowing your country to just take in anyone who wants to live there, no questions asked, called 'anti-immigration' and not something more neutral like 'pro citizen', 'pro security' or 'common sense'? I think your bias is showing...
So the right wing party is far right but the coalition of the communists and other left parties are not far left. Please remain objective and don't ruin this good channel.
That's the official stance, RN is labelled as far right by french institutions, unlike leftist parties like communists and LFI, classified as left wing. Doesn't matter much for the electors though, you could argue the three blocks are all extreme in their own way, or that none of them are, what matters in the end is the vote people will cast on election day.
Néanmoins, il y a eu pour ces élections législatives, une participation très importante. Pour le coup, les Français se sont déplacés en masse dans les bureaux de vote.
I would vote to block far right candidates right wing: hate, discrimination, tax cuts for richt, fuck the middel class and poor left: peace and equality, fair wages, support for the poor, more housing, food prices drop yea rly see the difference
but do you guys even known what communism is lmao the new popular front is center-left they are pro eu and are very light they are no way close to being socialists but what can i say you are uneducated
@@denny6379 "right wing: hate, discrimination, tax cuts for richt, fuck the middel class and poor" ??? Its the middle class and the poor who vote for them because nobody else seems to care about them.
@@denny6379 Your social structure isn't even self-sustaining. The left collect taxes from the right and import immigrants from the third world to make up for few births. If it weren't for right-wingers, every western nation would collapse. Contrary, if there were no left-wingers our nations would drastically improve. It is mindblowing how left-wingers so openly hate the right, without realizing that if the relationship was reciprocal, you guys would be extinct.
@@lollypop00p Didn't the NFP and leftist peeps made a rally in Paris recently just because they didn't like the democratic results of the election? LOL.
The president is elected directly by the people. The parliament is elected directly by the people. The president names the prime minister. The president can change prime minister at any moment. (happens on a regular basis, we got 4 different prime ministers under Macron) Distrust vote from the parliament can revoke the prime minister. (this is the reason why the prime minister must be from the same party as the parliament) The president can revoke the parliament.
Hi, I'm french, I can answer your question ! The prime minister is appointed by the president and the "Assemblée Nationale" must confirm his choice by a vote. Normally the president has a majority, so he can choose whoever he wants. If another majority is in the assembly, it must agree to cohabit with the prime minister of the majority. He does not have a choice. In all cases the minister cannot be dismissed by the president but only by the assembly (if he has the majority, he can ask the assembly to do so or just suggest that his minister resign by himself). I hope I answered your, have a nice day :D
As an indian, i am happy french people are voting for national policies. A country should look after its own citizen first and especially not take in ingrates like islamic extremists who want sharia law all over the world.
Finally someone that does say nonsense, the race is still super close and anything could happen but the media likes to talk about a far right win that doesn't exist, anyway hope you're having a wonderful day and thank you for this video 🙏🏻
agree "far right" today is used for anyone who does not want mass migration and/or does not want centralization of power in EU and/or is against the war in Ukraine and want negotiations, some have even called Fico "far right" even though he is on the left and many of the anti mass migration parties have a center left economic policy
@@veronicajensen7690 those people aren't the one that said that NR are far right but France legal system said it itself and NR accept it because national rally was founded by a nazi ( lepen father ) also you misunderstood my comment, I'm with the new population front, I was in the anti Afd protest and I support antifa , so I'm a leftist , an engineering student and a good citizen that understand that immagration doesn't hurt anyone, minorities are good for sociality, the problem that the state face are because of the rich and I hate capitalism/ I dislike people that destroy the environment
Another French fan here, yeah you got it right! Very good explanation for non French speakers. I'd have appreciated if you'd shown the non metropolitan constituencies (there's quite a few). Another detail is that our députés aren't meant to "represent their constistuency" (they're not representative of a territory, they're national assembly). Another detail is that part of LR decided to run with RN, meaning that the cordon sanitaire is sorta-kinda broken on their end, and more than a few right wing candidates that came in third place but are still qualified for round 2 said something like "nah i'm not dropping off because [left] candidate is also an extremist". Gabriel Attal did say "y'all should drop out and vote for NFP if RN came in first and you came in third" to his own side (Macron's side), but others said "only if the other party goes from communist party to te greens to other republicans" (aka saying the left coalition is fine except for "La France Insoumise" candidates, which is... well, kinda eh). Can't wait to see your video next week!
By calling RN ''far right'' the other parties want to scare the French people - Looks like it no longer works, the French at last understant the fearmonger are doing it on purpose to manipulate
As a french myself, I would like to add that with 66,3% of total participation, french citizens mobilized a lot more than usual to express their opposition to the president, from both far left and right of the political spectrum.
The two round system is an absolute joke. It always means that you have a duopoly. It also means that if you didn't vote for one of the two front runners you will have to vote for someone you dont want to vote for. Unless the front runner gets over 50% of the vote. Its a shitty system that will always benefit centrist parties.
Not necessarily the centrist parties since some “anti-system” leftists might prefer voting for the far right than for the center. It depends on whether the usual “left to right band” topology is true or some alternative models like the horseshoe theory is more fitting to the current political trend. What is sure is that it increases greatly the gains of the largest minority. It actually already favoured the RN since they are projected to have over 40% of the seats with only 33% of the first intent votes - (a lot of centrists votes from the first round have been thrown to the trash).
That also why I have never bought into the argument that the two round systems was a better “wall against the extremes” rather than a proportional vote. Yes when the moderates are the largest minority it feels right to (some of) them that their 30-35% turn into more than half of the seats, but when the largest minority will be the far right will they notice the problem? If the system was proportional, a 65%+ moderate coalition against the RN would be already signed and a clear winner of the election.
I kinda hope the National Rally wins an absolute majority. Bardella is pretty clearly trying to avoid becoming PM, so that the french system can be dysfunctional for a couple years, and then when 2027 comes around they can blame Macron and the dysfunctional parliament for any issues in the country, and come to absolute power without needing to compromise. If they win a majority he then has to be PM, offering a chance for him to fuck up and potentially reduce any victory in 2027.
All the far left parties and greens got 28%, but the right has republicans too 7%, together with nationalists they make 41%. It is clear that they have great chances to end as a majority in the next round.
As someone who doesn't live in Europe, I don't see why they are considered "far-right". It's just normal "right". Macron is left, and the green\social justice party is far-left. The Republicans might be center.
Thank you for this video which summarizes and explains sufficiently the functioning of our institutions for a non-French audience. It would undoubtedly be necessary to further develop the specificities of each party or political family and especially the context of the collapse of President Macron's popularity.
The fact that a now moderate nationalist party (since the expel of JM Le Pen) is considered "far-right" while a straight-up communist party is merely called "left-wing" says a lot of the bias of the media, and who they want you to vote or oppose
@alejandrobasombrio3803 there's two reasons for this. Firstly, the communist party of France is much more moderate than the communist parties you're used to thinking of. Secondly, they are in alliance with a lot of left wing parties ranging from far left to centre left so it ends up being "left wing" in aggregate.
The communist party is called just left because it's REFORMIST. The far left contain revolutionary parties, like trotskists, other revolutionary communist parties, and (ultra left) anarchists
That's the narrative the commies who have a stranglehold on the international media keep dinning into us, my friend - you see, it's ALWAYS "far right", NEVER just "right", but ALWAYS "left" - NEVER "far/deep left", we know where their biases lie ... given their propensity, it was a mini surprise that they didn't characterize "l'Action directe" as "peaceful leftists".
