President Emmanuel Macron called the snap vote after his centrist alliance was soundly beaten in the European elections by Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party earlier this month.
  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    If the National Rally does secure an absolute majority, the French leader could find himself forced into a difficult “cohabitation” with the country’s first far-right government since the Second World War.

    But her hopes of a majority in the National Assembly seem less certain after centrist and left-wing candidates pulled out of races to boost the chances of their moderate rivals to block the far-right.

    The voting taking place on Sunday will determine who is prime minister but not president, with Mr Macron already set on remaining in his role until the end of his term in 2027.

    If Ms Le Pen’s party wins an absolute majority, France would have a government and president from opposing political camps for only the fourth time in post-war history.

    The president is weakened at home during cohabitation, but still holds some powers over foreign policy, European affairs and defence and is in charge of negotiating and ratifying international treaties.

    A hung parliament and the need to build cross-party consensus to agree on government positions and legislation would be challenging given France’s fractious politics and deep divisions over taxes, immigration and Middle East policy.

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  • abbadon420@lemm.eeEnglish
    211·
    9 days ago

    It’s not a high stake election. We already know who’s going to win and we know they’re going to regret it in a couple years.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
      81·
      9 days ago

      Given how their election system works, it might very well be that the left alliance wins most seats. I guess we will know soon.

      • gaael@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        This will not happen. What we’re fighting for today is depriving the far-right and its allies from getting more than half the seats in the national assembly. We actually have a chance to prevent them from becoming our new government, but nothing is sure yet.
        Whatever happens, the next 1 to 3 years is/are going to suck a lot.

        • froggers@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          8 days ago

          Interesting how quickly things can change. According to the exit polls, lefties might win the most seats, followed by Macaron and then by the right-wingers.

          • AccountMaker@slrpnk.netEnglish
            5·
            8 days ago

            Yeah I was very surprised. I thought the best it can be hoped for is that RN cannot form a government, but they might actually end up in 3rd place. Let’s go France!

          • gaael@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            8 days ago

            Not really. The scenario where the left wins the most seats is the least probable one. The two that can really happen are the far right gaining enough seats to govern the country, or nobody having a majority.