France’s left-wing and centrist parties have withdrawn hundreds of candidates from Sunday’s parliamentary elections, in a move aimed at thwarting the formation of the country’s first far-right government since World War II.

Macron’s centrists and the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) hope they can prevent such an event, with the president telling a closed-door meeting of ministers at the Elysee Palace on Tuesday that the top priority was blocking the RN from power.

That would involve supporting members of the far-left France Unbowed party (LFI) if necessary, Macron said, despite some opposition from members of his own party.

  • @PugJesus
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    494 months ago

    That would involve supporting members of the far-left France Unbowed party (LFI) if necessary, Macron said,

    Good. Macron created this disaster trying to renew his mandate to rule like a Graeco-Roman god; the least he could do is put in the bare minimum to help unfuck it.