French politics | Macron calls shock GE

[TinFoilHat]

Le Racist Facist Maggots got a pomme de terre up their shiter. Vive La France

I'd love to hear you say that in your Glaswegian accent.

However the Tsunami warning when the ladies hear it I doubt you'd get to use it.

 

[TinFoilHat]

 

[BayernMan]

 

[Postman Pep]

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

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Wank theory.

 

[Postman Pep]

Wank theory.

Each to their own .....

 

[johnnytapia]

Each to their own .....

Chacun à son goǔt

 

[johnnytapia]

If this were England we’d:
not notice
not care
look vaguely astonished when “reliably” informed by The Daily Mail that Communism was but a fleeting moment away from becoming the de facto form of government.

 

[Postman Pep]

In all seriousness if you flip the result on it's head can anybody see a world where the right wing coalition is denied the same democratic right to form a government (however shaky) and it not being newsworthy?

Me neither because the reality is that Macron would have come to some sort of "accommodation".

One for the horseshoe theorists to ponder .....

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

In all seriousness if you flip the result on it's head can anybody see a world where the right wing coalition is denied the same democratic right to form a government (however shaky) and it not being newsworthy?

Me neither because the reality is that Macron would have come to some sort of "accommodation".

One for the horseshoe theorists to ponder .....

Regardless of Macron’s sensibilities, which people are free to speculate on, the problem here is that nobody has a “democratic right” to govern. The NFP have no more right to be installing a Prime Minister than Le Pen’s rabble as nobody won a majority. In fact you could easily argue Le Pen has more of a right as they got a bigger share of the vote and are the largest actual single party.

If the NFP had the political nouse they would have started trying to negotiate their way to a majority, but instead they have decided to sit on 32% of the seats and demand they install their PM. What would be the point? They would be immediately defeated and there would likely be another election. Once again, the ideologues are self-defeating and the only method they seem to know is to call for protest instead of actually trying to govern.

If the NFP had negotiated its way to a majority of seats then they wouldn’t need Macron to agree, the weight of that majority would force his hand. The truth is they haven’t got that, in fact they don’t appear to even be trying to achieve it.