My dear French brothers and sisters, I’m so fucking proud of you. Maybe hope is not all lost yet. Let’s all take your example and make this the the new election trend.
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
Let us hope the poll shows truth. According to the Associated Press:
A final national tally is expected by early Monday (local time).
Current projections for the parliament:
Mélenchon seems to be aiming to be the head of a left minority government, the question would be, what can be done with a parliament split into thirds, but it is a good sign for the moment
Hopefully Macron will play ball. He basically got exactly what he asked for, right?
The speech by leftist leader Mélenchon is an indication of what’s ahead. He says he will not negotiate with Macron, and Macron has refused to negotiate with him.
Well shit, then yeah, we get another election, and RN might win this time. He’s not about to buddy up with the conservatives, after all.
Is it possible he’s talking out of his ass? I don’t know why you’d kill your only option out of the gate like that.
Edit: Source, with specific place since it’s scrolling coverage.
Also an interesting tidbit:
This is uncharted territory for France. Unlike other countries in Europe that are more accustomed to coalition governments, France doesn’t have a tradition of lawmakers from rival political camps coming together to form a working majority.
Edit again: The seats in the diagram are themselves coalitions of some kind. I’m not actually sure how it all works, but some of those seats will end up belonging to parties other than Macron’s own, so maybe they could cross the floor and support Melenchon’s government.
Gosh, maybe this is what’s needed to get the moderates to work with the left rather than playing footsie with the fascists.
Similar to the UK almost as if it’s the media that’s over representing the far right
Not really. In the UK, the center-left won which was widely expected. The greens (left) did slightly better than expected. And the far-rightnot really. In the UK, the media said that the center-left labour was going to win in a landslide. And they did.
But in France, after the centrists and the left decided to not compete with each other, the left actually came out on top. Where’s in the UK, the left (mostly greens) is still very marginalized.
