Posted on 06/09/2024 1:44:06 PM PDT by Cronos
France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, has said he intends to dissolve parliament and call snap legislative elections in the wake of his allies’ crushing defeat to the far right National Rally (RN) in Sunday’s European parliament elections. ...Macron’s centrist list was on course to score between 14.8% and 15.2% of the vote, less than half of RN’s tally of 31.5%-33% and only just ahead of the Socialist list on 14%.
“At the end of this day, therefore, I will not be able to act as if nothing has happened,that is why … I have decided to give you the choice of our parliamentary future again, by voting.”
...Exit polls indicated that the hard-right populists had also expanded their share of the vote in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.
Although the centre-right alliance appeared to have taken a decisive lead in Germany, exit polls indicated the far-right Alternative für Deutschland had made significant gains, while governing Greens and Social Democrats had slumped.
Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union, now in opposition, was on course for 29.5% of the vote, while the AfD had jumped to 16.5% from 11% in 2019.
...Social Democrats slid to 14%, worse than its weakest ever result in 2019, according to the exit poll. The Greens, who came second in 2019 with 20.5%, were knocked down to fourth place with 12 %-12.5%.
...In Austria, meanwhile, the far-right Freedom party was forecast to have come top, with a projected 27%, ahead of the conservative People’s party and the Social Democrats, on 23.5% and 23% respectively.
In the Netherlands Geert Wilders’ far-right party was running a close second behind a Left-Green alliance. The Freedom party looked set to win 17.7% of the vote, while the Left-Green alliance, led by the former EU Commission vice-president, Frans Timmermans, was on 21.6%.
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“Hard right” or “far right.” To these socialist propagandists, there is no such thing as “hard left” or “far left.” Actually, they seldom use the word “left” when describing political factions.
Will the Biden regime denounce this authoritarian act or take it as inspiration?
Macron is a “centrist”??
Center of what???
Hey Mind Guardian,
Is there just a right?
For that matter does the far left exist?
Groupthink mind guard BS.
At least they don’t hide it in their name.
far-right/hard-right 5
far-left/hard-left 0
Today’s Far Right is yesterday’s classic Liberalism.
They meant he is a Centralist as in Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
How about dissolving Macron?
The NAZI party, which stood for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP, which translates into English as National Socialist German Worker’s Party is always described as “far right.” So, in this instance, what does
far right mean? Does this describe a circle where Left is directly connected to far right? Then, conservative would be on the opposite side of the circle? I’m so confused.
Funny how so many oppressive governments just abolish the government when the “elections” don’t go their way.
Everywhere except in the UK...with good reason according to my British Conservative friends.
I guess Macron losing France’s African colonies to the Russians has the French establishment in a snit and Macron is gone.
The Right believes in a small central government, and many personal freedoms.
The Left believes in a large central government, and few personal freedoms.
It is obvious that the Nazis were leftists. But they wore fancy military uniforms. So I guess that makes them far-right.
This belongs in Breaking News
Either that or in Philosophy.
Good heavens! Dissolving parliament seems a bit harsh, but if the boss says so, bring in the tank cars of nitric acid...
Hold on there, it’s not even Monday morning there yet.
How can they know the results of an election so soon?
Isn’t it supposed to take weeks?
Not even one “water main” broke to stop counting?
“Go ahead, run home to your Mommy.”
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