According to final results, the Nouveau Front Populaire left-wing alliance won 182 seats in France's Assemblée Nationale, ahead of Macron's coalition (168) and the far-right Rassemblement National (143).
Their initial aim was to stop Le Pen’s party winning an outright majority, which seemed a likely outcome a week ago. It seems instead their efforts may have handed the initiative to the other extreme of French politics, the far-left.
Mélenchon said the New Popular Front would want to implement its manifesto, including revoking Macron’s controversial pensions reforms and introducing big hikes in the minimum wage.
Never mind the Holocaust-denying public media-disbanding police-empowering Putin-asskissing Right, the real threat is the pension-giving, minimum wage-setting Left!!
Disappointing from Politico, I thought they had a good read on politics but it seems they’re incompetent enough to not be able to understand the french political landscape: the far left is mostly composed of NPA and LO who are trying to gain power through revolution, not the classic socdem parties playing by the elections rules
Edit : wow thanks for the context, friends, didn’t know they had changed owners
Politico was bought years ago by German Axel Springer SE, the producers of trash like BILD and WELT (also a short-lived BILD TV that was designed as a best-of between RT and Fox News). They don’t have a clue about french politics, just like they don’t have a clue about anything else. All they got is a right-wing desinformation agenda.
They’d be wise to not have Melenchon to be a candidate for Macron’s position though, because he still has some actually extreme views. If they can present a more moderate option then that’d be a good step though. Either way, Le Pen lost again, and that’s the main goal here.
This was just an election for the French parliament. Macron is president, who is directly elected by the French public. However the next presidential election is in 2027.
Check out this hot take from Politico:
The extremism is horrifying!
Never mind the Holocaust-denying public media-disbanding police-empowering Putin-asskissing Right, the real threat is the pension-giving, minimum wage-setting Left!!
They’re EXTREMIST! Both sides!!
This false horseshoe is so dumb. Although Melanchon has some problems, especially his views on Ukraine and Russia :/
No doubt, fuck Melanchon and whatever horse he rode in on. I don’t understand how they haven’t gotten rid of him already.
Disappointing from Politico, I thought they had a good read on politics but it seems they’re incompetent enough to not be able to understand the french political landscape: the far left is mostly composed of NPA and LO who are trying to gain power through revolution, not the classic socdem parties playing by the elections rules
Edit : wow thanks for the context, friends, didn’t know they had changed owners
Politico is owned by Axel Springer, who publishes the BILD yellow paper in Germany.
I would not expect anything from them TBH.
Politico was bought years ago by German Axel Springer SE, the producers of trash like BILD and WELT (also a short-lived BILD TV that was designed as a best-of between RT and Fox News). They don’t have a clue about french politics, just like they don’t have a clue about anything else. All they got is a right-wing desinformation agenda.
politico is owned by Axel Springer and should therefore not be taken seriously.
They’d be wise to not have Melenchon to be a candidate for Macron’s position though, because he still has some actually extreme views. If they can present a more moderate option then that’d be a good step though. Either way, Le Pen lost again, and that’s the main goal here.
That’s the biggest issue with the left right now, we need someone sane so not melanchon
This was just an election for the French parliament. Macron is president, who is directly elected by the French public. However the next presidential election is in 2027.