Everybody else in the world is like “Holy shit the French beat the Nazis, that’s some pretty good news at a time when it’s badly needed”
Not the New York Times though. They’re mad because it means “gridlock” if the Nazis are gonna be obstructed on what they wanted to do and the left is gonna get a say in government again
I suggest that we take the cubby that was left unfilled after the gradual retirement of “Russian Warship go fuck yourself” and fill it with “New York Times go fuck yourself”
It‘s not so surprising that the NYT does not know what a proper democracy looks like. They‘re American after all and never experienced one.
The anti left media blitz before during and after this election has been nothing short of disgusting. You’ve got people from a party actually founded by Waffen SS accusing the left of being anti-Semitic (because guess what, they’re not wholly approving of the genocide in Gaza). No fact check no push back just straight up “plutôt Hitler que front populaire”. They don’t even hide their shame anymore.
Oh nooo there are more than 2 major parties, what are we supposed to do, this is way too complicated for our little peabrains.
I never thought I’d say this, but America needs to be more like France. They didn’t forget what fascism looks like.
Believe me we did, the RN gained seats.
Also according to the OP, RN now have more seats than anyone else. Still not enough to form a government by themselves, and the other two main parties won’t want to help them.
However the other two parties don’t exactly get on swimmingly with each other, either, so the new coalition government might struggle.
No, RN is third by number of seats, with NFP (united left) being first and Ensemble (center-right) being second
Ahh yes I misread and assumed NFP was right, probably because they are red lol.
Red is left everywhere (that is not the US). It’s probably a metric standard.
They sure as fuck know how to protest.
We Americans could learn a lot from them right now
Why would you never think you’d say that? France is a rather functional country on the whole.
Don’t speak too fast. With the RN (far right) being unable to govern now, they’ll be able to watch comfortably from the sidelines and criticise everything the others are attempting to build without doing anything themselves. They will be blameless for the presidential elections in two year’s time.
Had they been in power now, we would have seen how incompetent they are and it could have lowered their chances for the next election. And we’d have had them for two years instead of five (or, ok, a risk of two + five).
Turns out that having Nazis in your political party is not beneficial in some places. Food for thought.
France shifts to the left, but risk of policy paralysis looms - https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-shifts-left-risk-policy-paralysis-looms-2024-07-08/
The French people absolutely came out in force to wreck the far-right, which is a phenomenal upset from the predictions!
They also gave no party a majority, and France has little experince in making broad coalition governments. I fucking hope the “Fuck Le Pencil” alliance of Centrists, Liberals, Leftists, and Communists can come together, but the stereotypical left infighting might neuter this before it’s begun.
I might be stereotypical but I, for one, sure hope the left sticks to its program and doesn’t compromise itself by allying with the so-called centrists. They’ve been calling us antisemites, chaos agents and extremists for the whole campaign, and the last 7 years of Macron speak for themselves regarding the centrists inability to support left-wing policies.
The best thing that could happen for the fascists is facing a coalition too mild to do anything meaningful for the people, and being able to say “See? The Left has betrayed you!” next elections
Saved from the far right by an undemocratic voting system, I see.
