attal forced macrons hand in removing his candidates in the triangulars, please read abt it if ur interested. he didnt want the left to gain anything, and favored bardella
Exactly, they did what the Americans failed to do. Stop the extremists. Whatever confusion is to come: they had a majority of the nation standing shoulder to shoulder against something most French don't want. Congrats!
@@teague2582not wanting unlimited immigration is extremism now? Wow, 7 years ago that was common sense. Come back and tell them congratulations in a few years when France is unrecognizable
no it's not. They are 100 seats short of a majority and they have to govern with Macron, who is pretty much the last person any political party wants to be associated with now. Any gridlock or failure to pass legislature is going to be blamed on Macron and whoever he works with. The left is going to have to provide a PM very soon and this person is basically going to be chained to Macron. The trap he set for the far right has caught a different beast now.
It's not a particular defeat for him either though. His party will hold a balance in the legislative branch, which will give them flexibility to work with the leftists and possibly the right wing parties against the leftists if the political realities change.
i don't think it's a win for the left either, they will not work well together and the RN the most popular party in France, who managed to increase their share since last week, can look at the rest implode and take the win
Not really, Europe is neolib and anti-social and the socialist party(center-left) is simping for it and they are at 64, the real left party is LFI with 71. so 180-74(socialist party)-33(europe ecology)=73 real number of leftist siege. So it is more an ecology block than anything.
Kinda like the U.S. and our north/south divide. Being from a political family in New England we loathe the political culture in the south, their politicians and quite frankly, many of their proudly ignorant population.
Oooo so naive ... stagnation in france will continue ... its just a matter of time . Eu is insane now ... left wingers are insane... Right wing will win europe do to self destruction of the left ... it is a them all over the world.
@@nulnoh219 Better to get it over with now than wait for it to boil over with manifestations, strikes, etc that could have happened during the Olympics.
@@Rayjackerit just couldn't wait as all sides are disturbed by his failure to win the eu election seats which he himself made a leader of that bloc. So ethically it's like people lost the confidence & give enough time the far right will cash in usual people's frustration & lead the nation to same old far right rheortics such as everyone is bad except us & going back to mediaeval ideology somehow brings them prosperity meanwhile in reality get stuck in Broke wage, Jobless, Loner frustration & in end plead to a politician who says I am gonna solve everything as a fraud saviour.
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The only problem that now may arise is that it will look like that Le Pens party is the only alternative (opposition) and that voting anything else is basically the same. This will create its own problems in the next presidential election.
I must disagree with your conclusion, Macron hasn't won, his group has just managed to avoid a disaster thanks to left-wing voters massively supporting the Republican Front, and saving his candidates He has lost his majority and 100 seats, he is massively contested by his own allies, and both the left wing coalition and the far-right are way stronger than they were in 2017 and 2022 So really, avoiding disaster cannot be described as a success, it's just that "it could have been worse"
Left wing coalition isn't that much stronger compared to the far-right tho. As RN got 40 more deputies compared to 2022 while NFP has 20 more deputies compared to NUPES' in 2022, with LFI actually losing a few now. RN had 37% votes, while NFP had 25%, which is 5% more for RN and 3% less for NFP compared to last week.
He lost his government and now his coalition has to govern with or let someone else govern. Where is the supposed genius in any of this? If the far-right does not get to govern, then that part of his gamle - whjich was widely cited as some genius move - is off. If the left gets to govern but not through a majority, then who is going to support their decisions? People keep saying this is some genius move, but you know what is an actual genius move? Making good decisions yourself that the voter rewards you and your allies with support after. Instead everyone is discussing how Macron will totally prove how the "other guys" are totally not up to the task.
well it's the Olympics in Paris soon so maybe we can have all the prospective PMs competing in a 100m race to decide who gets the honour of that position
As a French person, I'm positively baffled by the quality and the finesse of this explanation. Most people in France don't have this level of depth of analysis, they only scratch the surface of things. Bravo!
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They did their best result for the last presidential election, they have totally won the european election in france that forced macron to call new elections, looking at this election result. How can you call that a lost ?
Yeah but they still far underperformed,when it was called people were expecting an outright majority, before the first round people were still thinking a possible majority of potentially just under, after the first round they were saying maybe 20-40 seats under majority, nowthey are well under 100 from a majority and are third place. The alliance between the Left, Centre, and the Right not only held but grew even stronger against the National Rally. It's hard to imagine the National Rally winning in 2027 if the Republican Front was this strong this year
RN seats in... 2012: 2 2017: 8 2022: 89 2024: 142 (plus the plurality of the national vote) Yeah they didnt win an outright majority, but I wouldn't say they're losing.
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.
Bref, la gauche n'a rien gagné du tout, elle fait la fête car elle CROIT avoir limité la casse, mais le réveil va être brutal. L'assemblée est majoritairement de droite (RN-Ciotti + LR = 203 sièges), Darmanin a déjà annoncé que le pays allait devoir prendre un virage à droite car c'est ce que la majorité du peuple demande, en d'autres termes la majorité présidentielle va tendre la main aux LR et on se dirige vers un premier ministre de centre-droit. Non seulement le NFP ne va pouvoir appliquer aucune de leurs mesures (Mélenchon délire complètement), mais ils sont en plus totalement rejeté par les 2/3 de l'assemblée. Quant au RN, il a maintenant un boulevard pour 2027, car il ne va pas pouvoir être tenu responsable du chaos qui approche.
Excellent points. As soon as I saw the results I stated that this will only galvanize the right more. Their views are validated in their eyes of a corrupt system.
But ultimately people chose to vote for a party that is a left-wing coalition. The fact that the right is not willing to rally around the RN says a lot about the party, and they only have themselves to blame.
You are missing the point, it doesn't matter - they still hold majority and can continue to push insane nonsense. These people DO NOT CARE if they are caught, they are blatantly doing it.
Finally someone who understands the truth and sees through the media's twisting of the situation. France will gain nothing from this, the Left are too chaotic to get anything done, the French are afraid of what the RN may bring but it may be the change they need and they keep pushing it down the road.
I prefer the Us system, I’d rather have only one competitor to worry about. Who cares about the smaller ones that will certainly not support my views or my beliefs! 😂
@Labyrinth6000 That's from the party licker perspective. For neutral people, it's better to have multiple options. Otherwise, France would be still ruled by the corrupted Republican Party.
Please don't use France as an example of a good system, this election the party with the most votes got third place. If you are gonna point to amy country to copy at least make it one that is more proportional
The RN still got more votes though, 10.1 million for RN, 7 million for NFP, and 6.8 million for Ensemble, 2.1 million for LR. So if things stay like this to the presidential election Le Pen still has a good shot to win.
@@shwetapatwa1327you mean the party that was in power for years who gave nothing but high taxes, high crime and failed social cohesion will now get it all together?
Le Pen did not really loose. She almost double the number of parliamentaries...They have the highest amount of parliamentaries for a single parties .. all the left and the centrist are coalitions... None of them individually have as many parliamentaries as Le Pen.
Actually it's a win for democracy that the National Rally couldn't repeat the first win. We are in a serious global crisis in which populist nationalism usually rises to take over
@@ronny-lb1crif more people radicalize and hate you for denying them their democratic voice, you will entirely deserve it. You don’t get to cry about the illiberal right if you convince the right that democratic liberal norms only serve to make them lose even when they have popular support.
As a german to me it's very strange that in certain other democratic nations it's very uncommon or borderline unheard of to form coalitions when it come to forming a government. Sure it's more difficult than having the majority but in my point of view democracy is always about finding a compromise.
that is their right as the largest party. by tradition they get the chance to build the coalition, if they fail then It goes to macrons party then mariane le pennes party
It depends. Some parties from the Leftist Coalition (NFP), especially those closer to the centre like the Socialists, are more willing to enter into negotiations with Macron's centrist block than others which are further to the left, like France Insoumise. The issue is that even the Socialists are afraid of being seen as 'colluding' with Macron's neoliberalism, which is why they had campaigned against Macron in both the legislative and the European Parliament Elections.
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@@Anonyomus_commenter there wouldnt have been bad polls in the first place if he didn't call elections. he still lost 100 seats and created more instability and confusion. elections are supposed to solve problems, not create them
It's a major victory for the democratic and republican consensus, because it proves that the only way for the Far Right to get in power through democratic means is to win with an absolute majority in the 2nd round, which is practically impossible to ever happen. And it just so happens that ends up being a major victory for Macron, because he is the current president and aligned with the democratic and republican consensus.
@@antispindr8613 The RN isn't Fascist. Jesus Christ that word is tossed around way too easily by people who don't know any aspect of the formal definition.
I wouldn't necessarily say Le Pen lost. At the tactical level she did indeed lose, but on a strategic level she's closer to power than she was before the elections. The number of RN MPs almost doubled and so did the vote-share of the RN. In terms of popular vote, the RN beat both Ensemble and NFP by more than 10% in the second round and outperformed their results from the EU parliament elections in both rounds, which will come in handy at the 2027 presidential elections. So the RN is here to stay. And if up until 2027 the NFP and Macron will fail to govern France due to the fact that the National Assembly is divided, then Le Pen will be in a good position to win the presidential elections.
@@thebombplayer2986 I don't deny that. I only point out that in the grand-scheme of things she's in a better position for 2027 than she was before the elections.
Do you take care about the dynamics which are shaping our current lives? Wars in Europe are always making countries shift to the extremes. Just for example Putin's war, the migration crisis caused by different middle Eastern extremist groups (supported by Putin's regime), Erdogan's policy towards migrants and the growing tensions in Palestine and Israel are the main forces which are currently shaping Europe. Everyone is in war psychosis and these situations can easily be used by extremists like the New Order (Calling it by the party's old name just to look at what I'm talking about) of Le Pen.
The funny thing is, le Front Populaire isn’t classified as far left by the official french institutions and political scientists. Their program is as standard as it gets for the left. On the other hand, le Rassemblement National is classified by most as far right. The trope of a far left as dangerous and menacing as the far right is an invention of the centrist to try to make themselves seem like the only reasonable option. The far left is in reality two or three small party who don’t hold a significant weight in the political power.
Yeah, it is. Right Wing Nationalism ordinarily comes in waves and if they don't win or lose their totemic leaders like Trump, Le Pen or Farage - they just evaporate as the economic or cultural basis for their existence becomes less relevant to their rise.
@@znail4675you do not get the point that means RN is considerable stumbling block in Parliament that will give Macron severe Headache he will be in the mercy of the Far Left who is the Majority in Parliament remember the Far left may hate to the Guts the RN but they do not feel any love to Macron and his party they actually view Macron party very similar to RN who keep denying the connection.
It’s a loss because she was way ahead in the first round. But as usual, the left allied with Macron (whom they supposedly hate), to block Le Pen. From first, she became third.
Yep that’s the weakness of the French and British system not using proportional representation. It’s crazy you can do better then 10% voting wise and lose so much more seats.
You forget that National Rally was present in much more electoral districts than the other formations in the second round, (about 200 more than NFP for example), meaning their supporters had more chances to actually vote for NR, and not someone else, unlike most other parties
I would say its kinda evergreen now. Parties form blob to confront the raid boss, stacked with every class under the sun - Piére the Socialist, Michelle from resistance (communist), just to name a few. Its impossible to loose. Issue usualy comes after the raid. Because the party is was made from members of various guilds, they cant do usualy much good and the cycle repeats itself. You just need bigger blob now since the raid boss leveled up. As my favorite Emperor once said - i love democracy.
@@ElfieBrown-i6s no, it's just that in many places outside of France there's a strange tendency to call hardcore neoliberals "leftists" and "communists" simply for being more socially progressive... despite not being anti capitalist or proletarian whatsoever
@@shuwap Macron at best is Centre Left considering his woke leftist social ideas, while Le Pen is at best a Centre Right to Right conservative. You haven’t seen what a true “Far Right” person is. Even Zemmour at best is Right. Kotleba from Slovakia I think is the closest you’ll see to a “Far Right” person who recently had seats, and even then, he’s not relevant anymore.
meaning whichever side the new PM is going to come from is going to be associated with incompetence come the next election. In a way, Le Pen couldn't have had it better. Their seats have increased and they don't have to take any responsibility for the many failures and stalemates coming the governments way.
Yeah, it was a dumb move, and now we are stuck with a parliament with left, "centrist" and right not ok to anything It's over for us and also the left in france is actually alt left, they are going to boost those 120 knifes attacks we have everyday to at least 300.
Yeah, people are seriously counting their chicken before they've hatched. At every election for the past six years, NF has been getting more and more seats, and more and more votes. Unless that trend stops, and ideally reverses, it's only a matter of time before they *do* get a majority. The french need to change their current script, but if Macron is still in charge, and no other party has enough to be a government by themselves, change may not come soon enough.
As a basque im so sorry for that. We dont support "The left" in the Europeans, it has Irene Montero on it. You can search for her speech on kids sexuality. The system is over, and they are trying to keep living from it, from next generation Soros money. If you dont say that a woman is mistreated you dont get the money for "developing". If you dont say that homosexuality is a social acomplishment you dont get the money. if you dont build another mosque you dont get the money. Neomarxism, if you dont ride with their RAINBOW msg you are a hater. And the Fascio will come for you. Agenda 2030
This really presents things in a weird way, Macron called an election when the far right was at it's strongest and the left wasn't united. That the left would unite so quickly, or at all, really wasn't predictable. Also Macron won't lead this coalition, he can only play a diplomate between the parties.
@@ejs7861what a terrible way of thinking about it 😂😂😂😂 not even about strength or obeying, but popularity. You can be weak and popular, just look at Trump. Can't even go against his views without him taking it as a personal attack and will spend his time and energy to take you down for remarks that slightly goes against him. That is weakness. A strong man fights for himself, a stronger man fights for others.
I mean, when it's illegal to poll how many people in france AREN'T EVEN FRENCH then you could say that the immigrants don't like the Franche, and that the Franch don't like the immigrants
The RN didn’t LOST… everybody lost in fact. During the first round, around ⅓ voted for RN, which mean 66% voted against them. In the second round, it was pretty much the same thing so the RN ends up with around ⅓ of the seat… but so does the Left and Center. And that’s the key of the debate here. When the Front National (previous name of RN) were only getting 15% of the population in the past, now they’re reaching new highs with ⅓ of the population. But also, the two main parties of the past (Socialist and Republicans) are now almost no seats whatsoever… So pretty much, Macron killed both the previous Left & Right of the past and now the political fight is between the New Left (lead by the far left people), the Liberals Centrist and the National Right… However, since the New Left is a melting pot of Socialist, Communist, Ecologist… they oppose to both Liberals and Nationalists… So even with a higher number of seat (around 189), they’re still 100 seats short of the 289 seats required to have a majority… meaning that absolutely no party can actually govern and pass laws, not Nationalist, but neither Liberals or Leftists. The only reason Nationalist didn’t get the absolute majority of 289 is because Liberals and Leftists did everything they can to stop them, meaning have an alliance for removing over 200 candidates to make sure the RN cannot win… but the results are that now, neither the Leftists nor the Liberals can govern, and they’re already fighting for who’s gonna be the leaders… even inside the Leftists group, they’re fighting because communists don’t have the same views than socialists… So their alliance is very fragile when it will come to vote for laws, pass budgets, etc… The RN/Nationalists were not in position to win if Leftists and Liberals make an alliance… but what matters is that the Nationalist are winning more and more seats at each new elections over the last 20 years, and there’s no triangulaire for the next Presidential elections… and until then, the whole government will be blocked and might become a huge disaster, with no one to lead…
Everybody loose, the country is now ungovernable. The alliance between Macron and NFP won't stay for a long time lol. All I can see is that the RN despite everything is slowly going up and up.
It's a joke, but that is the message the French political establishment is sending to RN voters: "Democracy isn't allowed, stop voting, you have to resort to more drastic measures if you want to save your country."
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat Actually 70% of the citizens told to the 30 other % that they prefer anything than the RN witch is a nationalist and racist party.
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat The Ensemble and NFP _were engaging in democracy._ They didn't somehow subvert votes; their voters willingly cooperated with each other because they viewed the National Rally as the greatest threat to their country.
@@belladonna5012 They were engaging in democracy by coercing candidates not to run in elections they otherwise would have in order to box voters into voting for candidates they didn't want to? They "engaged in democracy" by removing choices from voters to rig an election?
The self described centrists are extreme. High taxes, uncontrolable immigration, bad economic policy, social cohesion in free fall nevermind stuff to with with food, fuel and farming. If this is centre then what on earth is left or far left. When wanting lower taxes and immigration is called far right the world is a mess (used as a smear tactic of course as they rarely call the socialists or communits far left)
@@danunpronounceable8559cause lots of people for those other 2 1/3 parties would rather sacrifice their vote and let the lesser of two evils win than let that far right 1/3 party win. It’s compromise, everyone is unhappy but there is better representation of all the voter’s desires if their second choice is taken into account
@@yucol5661 No, what there is, is diminished faith in the electoral system in France, and people will now start filling in only one box on the ballot instead of a second choice. They won't trust the system anymore.
Why didn't they talk about the results from the perspective of the NFP? You know, the alliance that came first place and got the most seats? The party said they will be putting forward their candidate for PM this week and it's unknown if Macron will back them
@@rjohnm666 That's because they contested less seats but won more while RN contested almost every seat. Looking at vote share in the second round is idiotic.
It's not broken though? If a party has an approval rating of 34% and a disaproval rating of 66%, why would it deserve to rule more than the party that only has 20% aproval but only 40% disaproval (and neutral for the rest)? Choice ranking exist for a reason, and I don't think a party that's hated by 2 third of its population deserve to lead. It would be broken if the party who had 34% of the votes ended up wih 66% of the seats and could rule unopposed. It's like, imagine if there's a 20 candidates election where 19 are really similar with minor differences, and then you have one real jerk that is really popular among trolls. As a result each of the 19 get around 4% each, because the votes are split between each one, and the last one gets 24%. Do you really think the one that got 24% deserve to win and lead?
@@rjohnm666 It's called having a constitution, actually. If you want constitutional reform, start a campaign and get enough democratic support for it and then we'll see.
@@rjohnm666welcome to the realm of math and democracy. No system is perfect and it's a huge struggle to make one that will represent everybody. But I guess people only care about this kind of stuff when their favorite party looses.
@@rjohnm666 You are ignoring the tactical voting aspect in both countries and the second round voting system in France. Looking at the vote share is far too simplistic. In the UK LOADS of UK voters voted against the Tories rather than FOR their preferred party, there were even tactical voting primaries set up to specifically do this so that the non-Tory vote could rally around one candidate. So the Labour vote percentage becomes irrelevant at that point, it is about the non-tory vote in specific seats. The vast majority of Lib Dem, SNP, Green etc. voters prefer if their party cannot win, that the Tories do not govern them. Same in France, all those left to centre-left, even centre-right voters were very clear they did not want to be governed and represented by a far right party and they voted that way. An extreme party that gets 30-35%% of the vote shouldn't govern a whole country then the other 65% of the country despises them and doesn't want them. That is the problem we have had in the UK for years, the right wing Tories being the clear and only right wing party so hoovering up all those votes, but then challenged by multiple progressive, left and centre-left parties splitting their vote. For once we had a right wing party that split the right wing vote and we had progressive voters tactically voting, creating a huge dominance for Labour. The French have basically done the same thing, the non far right voters may not agree on very much, but they clearly agree that they do not want a far right government and will accept a messy coalition of left and centre parties over the alternative.
That was a clear and educational description/explanation of the dynamics in French national electoral politics, thanks for that. Greetings from Aarhus.
I dunno. National Rally still got 37% of the popular vote in the second round. That's way better than Reform did in the UK or AfD will do in Germany or PVV did in the Netherlands, etc. etc.
Small feedback: In the pie charts, for me the deep blue and purple colours were quite difficult to distinguish from each other. Example at timestamp 04:14
dEmOcRaCy Used to be just vote for a party, once. Now you have multiple rounds, coalitions/alliances and more complex bs which not even 10% of the population understands. Same technique behind banking and stocks; Become so complicated that the average person will never understand.
In 2015 I was listening to Jacques Rupnik talking about the possibility of Le Pen winning, and he said there's no need to worry, as even if they would gain most votes, they wouldn't still come to power because of (unspecified) "other means".
Le Pen wouldn’t magically reverse demographic trends lol. The RN doesn’t even have a comprehensive platform on immigration. There are so many realistic barriers to implementing their promises. Just look at Italy under Meloni.
6:46 correction: that Basque nationalist deputy is a member of a party which is itself a member of the New Popular Front. He was running in his constituency not just as EHBai candidate, but as the NFP candidate too
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Note - Macron is pronounced without an accent (especially not the American tendency to accent the second syllable). Regarding the results - the RN had the biggest vote share (37%) and gained 53 seats. It didn't win outright and this will prove a positive for them. France's economy is tanking and Macron's spending is sky high. What happens when he presents his budget to the EU in September? He was hoping to blame the RN (he said before the election that he had rolled a grenade amongst their legs). The left and the communists etc. will probably begin in-fighting and everything will deteriorate further. The RN just needs to keep its cool.
The far right always disapoints in the second round, they did badly in the 2nd round of the 2 past presidential elections: I think that this is due to the fact that once they pass the 1st round with flying colors, media outlets go bonker for a week, screaming a the return of fascism, and this bad press does have a clear effect.
The only reason they lost I bcuse they said the would be a lame duck if they didn't get majority, basically the gop book, which doesn't work for multi party systems
This type of left wing strength and solidarity is something of a pipe dream in the states… I’m proud of France for combatting the turn to fascism that we are seeing across the world in face of trying times
Not Macron in mu opinion. On the contrary: ha has secured his party inside the majority until the end of his presidency. The Left can't govern without them. He goes from an hostile parlement to one with a relative majority with the left. Not so bad for him. Only bad for France
@@Labyrinth6000 you have countries with5 or 6 parties coalitions that works quite well. The problem is to have compatible ideas to be able to advance. In France it was between far left(including openly communist and marxist parties) and ex far right(RN whish used to be far right but now is softer on some issues). That's why Macron is ibdeed the winner, because even if his centrist party lost seats, no one can have majority without his party. So he has actually secured his position.
There's an issue, the Basque Nationalist was elected with the NFP etiquette as EH Bildu joined the NFP and we're given a constituency. And I should add that the presidential camp is not presidential in all but name, many MP are becoming increasingly hostile towards Macron.
Bro... In the NFP, there's Raphael Arnault, a dude is S listed by the french state (meaning he's a threat to the country, like terro rist are for exemple), his ngo was sentenced for anti semite act not a long time ago, he was even himself sentenced for violence in group... You can't make that S up
EH Bildu is a legitimate party in Spain that in no way supports terrorism or violence. ETA disappeared long ago. They have made alliances with the Spanish socialists and even sometimes with the Spanish right in some municipalities. It would be unfair to pretend they're violent now due to their historical ties with basque terrorism. By the same logic, we should ban RN since they have obvious ties to fascism and neonazis.
@@jmiquelmbSometimes like with Pello during the last Basque Country elections they struggle to condemn the past(and apologise to the victims at times) of course it varies from candidate to candidate but there are still some old members of ETA calling the shots. Does that mean all the party is like that? Of course not, they are just on their way to fully leave behind their past. Left wing Basque nationalism is really popular but they really should also reflect and don't hesitate to remember. How many seats did they get though? The Eh Bai candidate said something about three seats(but I guess they will need to share with the NFP and only Peio will get to be in Paris) that's a phenomenal victory and good call truly joining the NFP. Quite the historic result.
I think it would've been interesting to mention that a lot of RN voters are complaining on twitter that RN around 10 Million votes, (nearly 40% and an easy first place in popular vote) in the entire country, while Ensamble and Popular Front only got a bit above 6 million each, but only got 3rd place in number of seats in parliament. But thats just how the french voting system works with its individual elections in the constituencies.
And I'd like to Add that: In France RN has nearly 40% of the popular vote, but only around 30% of the seats in parliament, while In UK Labor has only 35% of the popular vote, but got above 50% of seats in parliament getting a majority. So if Frances voting system was slightly different, with the exact same voting numbers RN could have an absolute majority in the parliament right now.
@@cancerino666huh? Mel technically won however they now have a caretaker government and if a coalition happens, it will be lead with "French communist Party" and far left populist. Which mainly Paris voted for. They have no government. The citizens lost man..
Much like Labour in the UK, the new coalition in France essentially has one term to address the national security and social issues making people swing towards the far right, or the far right will win the next election.
@@DavidSmith-pu9ct : Assuming we agree that the Far-Left is characterized by socialist ideologies such as Marxism and Collectivism in general, then logic dictates, that the Far-Right in return is characterized by capitalistic ideologies, ideologies based on the principles of (Classical) Liberalism and individualism in general.
Oh my god, people keep saying this since 2016 and the "far-right" never gets elected anywhere that matters. Maybe the majority of the population just thinks these parties are incompetent? The recent results are perhaps worst than Le Pen's defeat in the president race in 2022.
It is weird that they went voting three times and voters gave pretty much the same answer in the first two votes. So they vote in the first round for the parties they want in and then in the second round vote again the party they don’t want in...
The leftwing front is a mirage, can't hold, while the National Rally continues to advance, if not as fast as it appeared in the first round. Macron's government sits on quicksand.
While I may not support Le Penn's politics I do think it is a shocking miscarriage of democracy by taking away 200 candidates. It isn't democracy if you aren't able to vote for your desired party because they've stepped down to force you to vote for someone you wouldn't want to. This kind of politics breeds bad eggs because it stops politicians from actually looking at what the electorate want and adapting to it.
Listen to them in here bro. Listen to them tell you that it's "peak democracy" when unelected party officials coax and cajole candidates into **not running in elections** they otherwise would have, in order to box-in voters so they **aren't allowed to vote for the candidates they actually wanted to support** -- all to stop the most popular political party from having a proportional share of democratic power. That's what they call "peak democracy." I don't typically support populists either, but it's time to wake up and realize what is happening.
If people hadn't wanted to vote because their party had withdrawn, they wouldn't have voted and would have abstained. In this case, not only did they elect the left and the centre-right to prevent the far right from winning (so they did choose to vote), but turnout was the highest since 1981, and higher than in the 1st round! This shows that people mobilised en masse to block Le Pen. There is no denial of democracy: if they had wanted to show their discontent, they would have abstained (like they usually do). The results not only show that the French want to see Le Pen come 3rd, but they also have a great deal of legitimacy, given the huge turnout. Personally, I'm left-wing French, and I voted for the centre-right without hesitation. Ideally, of course, I would have preferred to have the luxury of being able to vote for the party that best corresponds to my ideas. But I was very pleased to see that the left-wing candidate in my constituency, given his low score in the 1st round, withdrew: this forced all the anti-RN people, including myself, to concentrate their vote on the candidate most likely to beat the RN. The defeat of the RN is more important than the victory of the left or the centre-right. Many of us think so, given the turnout, the highest in more than 40 years. (sorry if the grammar/syntaxe is bad or sounds weird, I had to us a translator for this long explanation 😅)
et la Bretagne, qui n'a donné aucun siège au RN, l'Alsace, qui n'en a donné qu'un, les Hauts-de France, la Normandie, le Centre-Val de Loire, L'Occitanie la nouvelle Aquitaine reste des terres contestée. Les régions de gros racistes restent PACA la Moselle et la Lorraine, faut arrêter de croire que vous êtes une marée de braves nationalistes, défenseurs de la "liberté d'expression" (seulement quand c'est pour cracher la haine des autres) et de la "laïcité" (des cathos intégristes) qui luttent vaillamment contre les derniers bastions de ces salauds de bobo-islamo-wokistes. Les électeurs RN sont soit des gens perdus, mal renseignés, qui souffrent de la politique macroniste et qui se sont laissé berné, soit des richos fasciste qui savent pertinement qu'ils foutent tout le monde dans la merde sauf eux.
There is one party to the right and multiple to the left. And to defeat the one party, multiple parties had to come together. People who for years have hated each other came together to defeat the one party. That says it all. Change is coming, its only a matter of time.
It says nothing. In Sweden, the right-wing is doing the same. The social democrats had the power for like 50 years before the right-wing bound together and defeated them. That is just democracy.
The only true cohabitation would be if a part of Ensemble disavowed the president and joined the left or right to form a substantial majority group. Without that, any government would need the support of Ensemble. At this stage, it's hard to tell what will happen.
Yall wanted nazis back ? Yeah... it'll take a lot more work to do that considering most of our grandparents fought against Hitler. Congrats to Jean-Luc Mélenchon and to France! And congrats to Keir Starmer and to the UK ! Italy next !
The richest, most stable, least corrupt and EU leading country is really a catastrophe? Have you seen Germany? Their economy is back on the rise their national debt is tiny and they have a robust welfare system. Where is this catastrophe?
@@kevinsmarts9953 also ironic considering the CDU/CSU is the right, but of course the Far-right is crying that the Christian right doesn't like being evil
@@kevinsmarts9953Catastrophe for the parties in government. They lost very badly in the EU elections and are going to loose very badly in the next German election.
Honestly, as an American, I am genuinely terrified for France and the UK. America is a melting pot, it's a settler colonial society, it is meant to be a multicultural empire by nature since almost the very beginning. The UK and France seem to be unaliving their own cultures. I don't see the British or French civilizations existing in 50 years time. They'll just be geographic boundaries containing culturally non-descript, atomized, individuals and hoards of "Is lamb easts."
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat You should see what decades of Tory gov gave the UK :) right wing policies and liberalism put us in this hell hole, left wing wins agains't all those principles is a beacon of hope not something to be scared of.
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat I do not know much about the labour party so I will not defend them. I've only read about the tories. Being french I can only look over when my country isn't on fire, which means not often
@@psycow3076 Sounds like you should probably vote for that political party they keep telling you you aren't allowed to vote for. Maybe if your life keeps getting harder while globalist billionaires just keeping getting richer, maybe they're full of it when they tell you to keep voting for the same exact ideas they restrict you to.
I'm afraid that if politics keeps getting co-opted, then the will of the people will eventually have to be expressed in violence. Full disclosure, I don't live in France and I hate violence, but I don't know what else would happen. I'd implore the people of France to fix their political system and try to save their society before it's too late, but I'm afraid it already is.
The election was rigged and stolen! It's like nothing we've ever seen before! It's a disgrace to our country and great PATRIOTS! it's so unfair, wah wah wah.
