French President Emmanuel Macron ruled out naming a prime minister from the leftist New Popular Front alliance and will instead start a new round of consultations on Tuesday with parties to try to form a new government, Macron's office said.
With our current two-round election system and a fragmented left landscape, the far-right gamble has worked wonders for Macron and the center-right in the past. I’m so glad they fucked up even if for just this one time.
I think he expected for the people to grudgeingly rally behind his party to prevent le Pen. They rallied behind the left instead.
Sounds astonishingly reasonable but your user name says otherwise. ;)
With our current two-round election system and a fragmented left landscape, the far-right gamble has worked wonders for Macron and the center-right in the past. I’m so glad they fucked up even if for just this one time.
The left didn’t increase its score from past election (about 25-30% of votes). The difference is they went united.
But technically the far right got the most votes and only cross party agreements with the centre and right avoided a far right dominated parliament.