Posted on 07/07/2024 11:10:37 AM PDT by qam1
PARIS (AP) — A coalition on the left that came together unexpectedly ahead of France’s snap elections won the most parliamentary seats in the vote, according to polling projections Sunday. The surprise projections put President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance in second and the far right in third.
The lack of majority for any single alliance plunged France into political and economic turmoil. Final results are not expected until late Sunday or early Monday in the highly volatile snap election, which was called just four weeks ago in a huge gamble for Macron.
The deeply unpopular president lost control of parliament, according to the projections. Marine Le Pen’s far right drastically increased the number of seats it holds in parliament but fell far short of expectations.
The snap legislative elections in this nuclear-armed nation and major economy will influence the war in Ukraine, global diplomacy and Europe’s economic stability.
France now faces the prospect of weeks of political machinations to determine who will be prime minister and lead the National Assembly. And Macron faces the prospect of leading the country alongside a prime minister opposed to most of his domestic policies.
The projections, if confirmed by official counts expected later Sunday or early Monday, plunge a pillar of the European Union and its second-largest economy into intense uncertainty, with no clarity about who might partner with President Emmanuel Macron as prime minister in governing France.
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Europe is becoming our enemy, and also Israel’s. Cept for Hungary.
Franchise gave up thier guns long ago. Europe is certainly not our ally anymore.
> Do you really consider NR a conservative party? <
They do have a socialist tinge to them. But they are also adamantly against the immigration that is drowning France. If that problem isn’t fixed - and fixed fast - nothing else will matter much.
I’m no expert here. But I think the NR is best described as a populist, nationalist party.
Of course! How could I have missed that! Besides, the officials at the Tour de France would never acknowledge the victory gained by Gen. Hermann Hoth with his XV Corp...seeing as how he ended up being a convicted war criminal and all that.
It's just that conservative parties prefer terms like "safety net" or "insurance" (i.e., SSI).
"The American people have a peasant mentality. What they really want is fascism. They just don't want to call it fascism." - Bob Grant, former NYC conservative radio personality
I told you Macron and the globalists would rather have Islamist-Communism ruling France than patriots. The UK and France are now officially done. Only civil wars can save them. Germany is next up. Will they choose AfD - or destruction?
All the leftist parties got together and decided they had to do whatever was necessary to stop Le Pen. I believe some of the even dropped out. Does Le Pen’s party at least have a plurality?
It will be. God wants it all to come to a head - violently and decisively. And so it will in a decade or perhaps less.
Let the 29-year old wunderkind be PM. He surely is better than anyone of the last 30 years.
I have long thought the Antichrist would come out of Europe. Trump should tell them to pound sand. We are DONE helping them.
Thier are Hundred Million Partriots with many more millions of guns. We may likely see Civil War here though.
Indeed, Islam is a war plan
America might as well close its bases in Europe and end NATO. We agreed to defend WESTERN civilization against soviets. Now both sides are gone.
I think you did call it a few days ago - silly me thought Le Pen was viable …
I saw this coming last week when I was watching the returns. I noticed that LePen’s coalition was only drawing a third of the vote and I looked at Macron’s coalition and the communists and thought “if LePen is really feared like Trump in France, those two will just unite...” and here we are.
A similar thing could happen here if the neocon pro-war GOP (who infest these message boards) were to repudiate Trump and align with whoever the Dims are running. That is in fact are greatest danger.
FWIW, Labour only won 34% of the popular vote, but won 65% of the seats in Britain’s Parliament.
THIS! 100 PERCENT!
God or China?
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There is a word for this, I think it’s “merde”.
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