French lawmakers on Wednesday voted to oust the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier after just three months in office, a historic move which plunged the country further into political chaos.
Can someone put this in broader context for me? I don’t follow French politics closely, but my overall understanding of events the last time I looked was this:
- France votes overwhelmingly for right-leaning parties in the EU democratic governing body (EU parliament?)
- Macron, French President and part of the centrist party, dissolves government and calls snap elections, hoping to get ahead of an apparent rightward shift that could take him from power
- Frances votes not overwhelmingly but by plurality in left leaning parties, reducing the far-right’s momentum but still significantly reducing Macron’s party’s power
- Rather than work with the left that received the plurality of the vote, Macron forms a coalition with the right-wing parties to form a government
Is this background accurate? (As an American, my understanding of parliamentary systems is spotty.) What happened between the formation of the new government and this no-confidence vote? And where does it look like things are headed?
Yes. And then because Macron is exactly the kind of shithead that thinks he can just tell fascists what to do while offering nothing in return, or not being willing to give them what they asked because they’re fascists, they turned on him.
Libs and boosting fascism, thinking they can control it afterwards. Name a more iconic act.
