Posted on 05/09/2017 7:56:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Manuel Valls, the former French prime minister, said Tuesday he wants to turn his back on the Socialists and run under President-elect Emmanuel Macron’s new political movement. It’s not clear, however, if he will be able to do so.
All 577 seats in France’s lower chamber are up for grabs in the country’s two-part June 11 and June 18 parliamentary election. Macron’s 577 candidates are expected to be announced Thursday and Macron himself will be sworn in on Sunday.
Valls told RTL radio that France’s Socialist party “is dead and behind us” and said he wants to join Macron’s Republic on the Move to run for a seat in parliament. He’s hoping to run in the Essonne department, his fiefdom south of Paris, but Republic on the Move officials said his nomination won’t be automatic. …
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When the French President and PM are from different parties, they call it,’cohabitation’.
Does not work so well, as they attempt to screw each other?
Interesting times for France.
NB: You can never get up if holding the other guy down.
We need France to do well.
His bowel movement ?
Macron is essentially a younger version of Francois Hollande. The French simply voted themselves the status quo, albeit with a different face.
Flushez le Swamp.
The National Assembly elections are in June, so let’s see how that shakes out.
Maybe because the Centrist is actually a Socialist. Wasn't Macron a Cabinet member somewhere?
For those who don’t follow European politics closely, most “Socialist” and “Social Democratic” parties in Europe are no longer socialist in the true sense. They have evolved into neoliberal, globalist parties.
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