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[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 63 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Leftist coalition wins election

Conservative oligarchs refuse to move an inch leftward and hands over power to right-wingers instead

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 23 points 2 months ago

A tale of selfish betrayal as old as time

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Interesting upcoming months.

First demonstration next weekend if I got my information right! ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 41 points 2 months ago

Ah yes, an Ensemble-Republicains coalition with 38% of seats is totally a "majority" and will totally survive. This was totally better than the 65% majority coalition proposed by the NFP around Lucie Castets before Ensemble decided that they decided center-left was too extreme for them.

Macron is clearly running to Le Pen to save himself from getting impeached.

[–] Arelin@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 months ago

Just liberals siding with fascists over leftists like they always do.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"This is now essentially a Macron-Le Pen government," said Mr Mélenchon, referring to the leader of the far-right National Rally (RN).

How is Barnier representing Le Pen here?

I mean, if he said it was a Macron-Macron government or something, that at least I could understand.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Macron's Ensemble Coalition plus Barnier's Les Républicains don't have a majority in the National Assembly. By choosing a prime minister from a right wing party one could argue that Macron hopes for the support from Le Pen's far-right Rassemblement National with which he officially doesn't want to cooperate, otherwise there could soon be a vote of no confidence and back to square one.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can the PM survive with support from the NFP?

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The parties in the NFP already said that they'll initiate a motion of no confidence for Barnier.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago
[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 19 points 2 months ago

How else does Macron expect to get a majority behind Barnier? He already rejected a technocrat coalition with NFP. Macron is obviously expecting to get support from Le Pen in return for a cordon sanitaire on the socialists.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

Jesus fucking Christ.