France faced a hung parliament and deep political uncertainty after the three main political groups of the left, center and right emerged from snap legislative elections on Sunday with large shares of the vote but nothing approaching an absolute majority.
The preliminary results upended widespread predictions of a clear victory for the National Rally, Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigrant party that dominated the first round of voting a week ago.
Instead, the left-wing New Popular Front won 178 seats.
The centrist coalition of President Emmanuel Macron, who cast the country into turmoil a month ago by calling the election, was in second place with 150 seats.
Trailing it was the National Rally and its allies, which took 142 seats.
The results were compiled by The New York Times using data from the Interior Ministry, and they confirmed earlier projections showing that no single party or bloc would win a majority.
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@SoulfulDirectDemocrat2yrs2Y
For everyone who says it’s simply too hard for Democrats to pick a new nominee, everyone from the French communists to the business friendly neoliberals put aside their differences in the span of a week to consolidate candidacies to deliver a crushing blow to the extreme right.
@FerventPartis4nForward2yrs2Y
I’m sorry. We don’t have the same system as France. Try again.
@SoulfulDirectDemocrat2yrs2Y
Very true. In France, 200 candidates had to drop out to unify the center and left. In the U.S., only one does.
@BitternEmmaDemocrat2yrs2Y
There are fundraising reasons we can't pick a new nominee randomly (the campaign would forgo $200M+) and basic political logic reasons. For the money reasons above, the top of the ticket MUST be Kamala. Then Kamala has to supposedly pick a VP? Who the hell is going to join...
@SoulfulDirectDemocrat2yrs2Y
Didn’t this turn out not to be true at all? They could just transfer the money?
@BitternEmmaDemocrat2yrs2Y
Sort of. The money would go to the DNC or state committees. The candidates would no longer be in direct control of the money though. The committees would be.
@SoulfulDirectDemocrat2yrs2Y
I think the DNC and the candidate could figure this one out
Is it a "loss" for National Rally simply because they failed to get a stunning absolute majority? They're projected to win 142 seats -- a gain of 53. In 2017, when the party was still called National Front and Le Pen was still the legislative leader, they had a total of 8 seats!
@N0minati0nBartNo Labels2yrs2Y
The left-wing bloc isn't even a single unified party. It was only formed a few weeks ago! NR has more strength than ever before in its history, by far, and won the most overall votes by a large margin. Also recall, the disputed leader of Les Républicains wanted to align with NR
@WhitingArielGreen2yrs2Y
The lesson from the French election is that tactical voting to help the left can actually provide a winning coalition that will fail to govern for fear of offending the big banks and then the far right will finally win. So celebrate fusion voting!
@B1cameralOtterSocialist2yrs2Y
The lesson is very simple:
Macron=Biden
Corporate centrists enable the rise of fascism and it takes actual leftist campaign like in France to beat the far-right.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
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