Posted on 06/19/2022 2:36:16 PM PDT by FarCenter
French voters have cast their votes to fill the 577-seat National Assembly, the French parliament’s lower-house chamber, and shorn President Emmanuel Macron of his parliamentary majority.
The latest estimations show Macron’s centre-right alliance Together won 234 seats, the leftwing bloc NUPES has taken 141, and the far-right National Rally has won 90 seats, among others.
Reacting to the night's first estimates, Macron's Budget Minister Gabriel Attal said, "It's less than what we hoped for. The French have not given us an absolute majority. It's an unprecedented situation that will require us to overcome our divisions."
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
So another globalist dictator is temporarily neutered. Progress is being made.
Far, far, far right. In France? Is that like Mitch McConnell?
“...The French have not given us an absolute majority. It’s an unprecedented situation that will require us to overcome our divisions....” That would involve monsieur macaroon to resign. Sounds like a plan to me.
Le Pen’s anti-immigration National Rally, at 90 seats, is no longer “fringe”. Their support may be needed by any center-right coalition that wants to get anything done.
My thoughts exactly. How far right is far right?
Bernie Sanders is like Macron...
Good news. The conservatives won big in the Spanish elections today too.
You can't really compare the coalitions in US Politics and French Politics, and say that our "X" is the functional equivalent of their "Y".
LePen's dad was a French Nationalist, and a Socialist. Anti-American and Anti-Semetic and Anti-Soviet. But since the International Socialists don't like to admit that their National Socialist rivals are rivals real live Socialists, they dub them "right wing".
The daughter wants a France that is not a mere geographic region of the EU, but French, with all the good, and bad, things that has traditionally meant. With perhaps an emphasis on the bad. Strong, nationalistic, anti capitalist, anti "Saxon" meaning anti German/British/American.
Probably
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