French President Emmanuel Macron has named Michel Barnier as prime minister almost two months after France's snap elections ended in political deadlock.
  • @[email protected]English
    63•4 months ago

    Leftist coalition wins election

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

    • JustinEnglish
      24•4 months ago

      A tale of selfish betrayal as old as time

    • @ValmondEnglish
      5•4 months ago

      Interesting upcoming months.

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

  • JustinEnglish
    41•4 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.

  • @[email protected]English
    12•4 months ago

    “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.

    • @[email protected]English
      22•4 months ago

      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.

    • JustinEnglish
      19•4 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.