France's Insane Election Results Explained 

The fact that Macron, the youngest french president of tye 5the republic, has his party to be the most popular only among french people aged above 75 years is so funny for me for some reason. I guess his bougie ways didn't appeal to the youth

I'd hate to be a Peugeot parked in Paris this week

Whatever happens, the French will be on the streets breaking some serious glass!

The results are not insane, what is insane is that some people see this as a surprise after 50 years of terrible handling. That's like being upset that it rains on a cloudy day.

What the French call a "Menage a Trois" is what I was hoping he'sd say! lol

Considering how crazy things are in France these days, both internally and internationally, this is probably more a sign of how sick people are of centrists.

Nothing insane about that result, completely expected

Imagine being a glass manufacturer or car insurance company in France right now...

Oh my goodness - a magazine actually CALLED "Too Long"? That's both audacious and genius - I like it. 🙂

Interesting that Bretagne stands out via its voting habits.

You won't find a proper explanation of the French voting system anywhere in the mainstream media. This was excellent, and I now understand it. Thank you!

The Pendulum Swingeth

The fact that Macron didn't see this coming shows just how delusional he is.

To call this the craziest election in French history shows a shocking lack of historic perspective when it comes to French elections.

Guillotine: "Hey guys, remember when we were best friends? I miss those days..."

10,000 bucks says that it says Academy is going to end up declining as a result of this.

Thank you for explaining the process and the different players.

Can they elect some Napoleon descendant and call it a day?

I don't think Macron wanted the RN to fail in the election. I think he wanted the RN to win in it, so that they had to be in control and utterly fail at doing it. Macron wanted the RN win a Pyrrhic victory that could potentially harm them in the long term. I am always surprised that people only think about "winning" or "losing" in the short term, as if there was no difference between a tactical and a strategic victory. Sometimes you have to retreat and lose the battle to win the war. I do not know however if such a strategic victory can be acquired this way. Only time will tell.

Come on everyone, marshmallows at the ready 🔥🔥🔥

Wow crazy how you hold elections sunday and tuesday you have all results for next elections. In america you have states still "counting" a week after the election.

As a French person, you resumed it perfectly 👍🏻

First Macron, then the Tory

The question is are we ready for season 6 of the french musical chairs of polical chaos

as of Tuesday evening, 190 triangulaires are now duels, as 190 candidates have stood down to permit votes against the RN.

Based on situation in France this is to be expected, even not as extreme as situation demands.

Insane results!? Are you high? 🤣

The French did not suddenly get racist. Any honest person has to admit, things aren't going well.

Someone should take France aside and explain that preferential voting is a thing.

An introduction to French elections. Elections are in two "tours" the first is open to any parties or independents. To win outright in the first tour a party must gain 51% of all the votes cast "and" 25% of the entire electorate. This prevents someone profiting from a low turnout. In the second tour, only the top two are allowed to present in each constituency. There can be a certain amount of coalitions formed and parties joined. The winning candidates can then if they have a majority take power or lesser parties can again form a coalition. Bare in mind that this has no effect on the President, he remains until the end of his tenier. The President then choses ministers of state including Prime Minister. It is entirely normal for people to make protest votes in the first tour, and obviously supporters of minority groups will gravitate to their closest candidate ideologically in the second tour. Paradoxically a good result in the first tour ça be detrimental to that party in the second. Imagine a second Brexit vote after people had been startled by the initial result.... Et maintenant, on verra !!! Also the Premier tour has never reflected the results of the deuxiem for 70 years.

Macron got completely crazy.....

Thanks for explaining the French election system for a non-French in an understandable manner. Of course the French has made it complex they love complexity in France.

Macron is ideologically closer to le pen than he is to melenchon.

As an American voter I am drooling over the French Ranked Choice Voting that we need to fix the dis functional Congress

Not insane, but expected and understandable. We see what's happening there from another country.

We almost waited for this video lol😂

6:49 He is right about it.

It's not insane to explain these results. Europeans are tired. Tired that over the last few decades 100 million migrants from Africa/Middle-East have been taken to Europe. We're tired seeing our social programs abused and malnourished. We're tired seeing women and children being assaulted and men being mugged. We're tired being told we're not welcome in our own countries. Unless Europe rises up, it'll be too late to fix these issues and we're doomed to end up broken and devastated.

Fair play on the video length

Thanks for the explanation. Very interesting!!!

The results aren't insane. The RN have steadily increased their vote share in every election since 2002. It's the culmination of a long strategy of hard work legitimising themselves.

As a portuguese i just hope this distracts the french players in the quaters of the euros

Very well explained. Congrats.

The best analysis I have watched so far. Thanks for the well articulated thoughts

As a French, I'm so happy to finally see a political video explaining the situation without everyone saying to vote one or another in the comments! I can finally read interesting comments

This election is not chaotic, it's unprecedented and unpredictable. But that we cannot know (in advance) does not make it 'chaotic'. Your channel is more and more mainstream sensationalism every day, I have to say.

Best explanation of the French voting system I've seen. Kudos.

French glass and car insurance companies are gonna be having a rough time 😂

The EU would almost instantly collapse if France and Germany decided to leave.

Seems weird they dont use preferential voting, would mean both rounds could be done with only one vote

Very good video!

excelent explanation as always thanks!!

If France had Australian style preferential voting it would all be over after the first round.

Why is it "Wild"?

Thanks :)

Thank you for explaining that to the world.

8 candidates qualifying for the 2nd round is about mathematically impossible. The 12.5% cutoff is of registered voters, not those turning out to vote/those voting. So effectively a candidate needed around 18% of the vote to qualify for the 2nd round.

Actually, very well explained. Good video.

Its not realy insane. This is exactly what happens when your policy boils down to the right is very bad, so you shoul vote for us!

Thank you.

It's not chaotic. It's just a turning point.

People have differing points of view. What a surprise.

It’s heartening that this journalist wore his best t-shirt for this presentation.

A safe prediction about French politics: "They'll be sorry!" Fraternité. Égalité. Misère. It has been decades since the French remained content about any democratically elected government.

Je pense que la seule façon d´empecher l´arivée au pouvoir a longe terme du FN (je ne parle pas de ces éléctions législatives) c´est que Macron retire les mésures les plus polémiques qu´il a prises. Il faut aussi se rendre compte qu´on ne bat pas l´extreme droite en imitant ses idées.

Everyone is talking about technicalities, no one is telling me what do the French people want?

Nice video

took you some time to film this

having a centrist party is something that doesn't exist (effectively) in the US duopoly.

Why is it insane when the people want something different

Good explanation Unbiased Well done

I have to say this is my first time seeing this channel and I'm pleasantly surprised by how balanced and seemingly impartial this was. MSM, especially BBC and C4 could learn a thing or 2.

If your calling the results insane your probably not aware enough to explain the situation 🤔

Considering it's France, I wouldn't be surprised if it's left and right anti Macron coalition 😂

The fact that you frame it as "insanity" shows your true colours.

Ypu gues have managed to make one of the best news channels on the entire planet.. You all amazing! Thank you

Wait, france has a prime minister?

Please, please go back to using bar charts or something else. These ring graphs are unclear at best and seem convoluted at worst. It is just not possible to get a good grasp of how much percent one section is out of the total - especially with the grey parts in between (are these spacers? Or are these votes for none of the shown parties? And if that is the case, why are they distributed over the whole ring and are not bunched up in one place?)

I foresee crazy protests and demonstrations occurring regardless of who wins. This seems like a setup for a crazy controversy.

How can anyone one seriously be suprised by these 'insane' results?

Among the lower class, National Rally is by far the most popular party. That speaks volumes.

There is a mistake at 4:41 RN got 9.3M votes and not 12M. That 12 figure was used during election night, based on estimates. Final result are now available

Wondering who would end up in civil war first: 🇲🇫 or 🇺🇸

Why did it not surprise me that the majority of national rally voters are over the age of 50😂😂

The established "defenders of democracy" seemed determined to cynically game said Democracy all to push any threat to the status Quo away and pretend the real grievances of the French people don't exist.

Given the insane policies French people had to endure, this gives me hope that the world can be normal if enough people vote the crazy out.

Great report sticking to the facts without an abundance of spin.

i would definitely pay for your american election night commentary if there's one in plan

People need to see that Europe hasn’t just shifted right for no reason. More and more people are starting to feel that it’s enough

Called “insane” when your side looses😂

Amazing results !!

Why mentioning 100% turnout (second minute)? In fact, 12.5% * 8 = 100% of votes, no matter which turnout is, right?

Result we don't like = insane result, amazing

Look, i've always been a leftist, but we live in the real world, and this have been sad to watch from my pov... For the past decades I witnessed every elections in France, the gig is that no recent French president was actualy elected for who he was, but who he faced, Le Pen's party always had that aura of racist and extremist party wich mean peoples who had same convictions were motivated enough to vote for them, leading the second turn as a " We need to vote to prevent Le Pen from reaching power !" not vote for the best of two candidates. We call it the vote barrage ( dam vote ) After so many years we got the results of such catastrophic politicals schemes. Non far right politicians realised that if you let immigration go rampant, it means always more and more peoples that will vote against Le Pens, because of their positions on immigration. And no matter how bad a president can be ( Take Macron as an exemple ) when he faces the far right, he's sure to win and get to power, but as years passes, the country is in a turning point, some citys are scary to live in, criminality and violence skyrocketted, unemployement and insecurity just keep going up, gang violence reached peaks, and even with our very strict gun laws, shootings in the streets between criminals are more and more common, killing civilians in their homes as collateral damages. France is also kind of a " USA sponge", whatever americans do, we copy them within few years span, french politics his slwoly turning in an immitation of american bi party system, and medias in generals are filled with more and more anti french / white propaganda, hate against french peoples has gone wild and unpunished on tiktok and twitter, using racism and colonialism as an excuse (like some blacks peoples still use slavery today to be racist against whites americans ) but the left have a simple moto, " Living together " and they won't fight against the hate coming from non whites in order not to alienate their potential voters. And to "everyones" surprise, hate leads to more hate and peoples grew pissed enough to vote for far right en masse. Weird how that happen ?

I hope this trend continue

It's important to understand that centrists always expect the left to back them when it matters, but the centrists will never back the left when it matters - centrists would rather have the right wing around than the left wing and it's been like this for most of modern history. Macron, Biden, Starmer - they concede to the right wing everytime.

Honestly France could really use ranked choice voting. Could run the runoff instantly instead of this two round strategic voting nonsense

I look forward to visiting a safe, beautiful Paris.

offtopic: could you add some saturation and contrast in your talking head parts? the world is grey enough. thanks for another informative video!😅

I see you're deciding to publish your Magazine Too Long in Latin, good choice, it's a beautiful language. That 'Test' headline at 7:40 looks a very interesting take on things...