French President Emmanuel Macron has named Michel Barnier as prime minister almost two months after France's snap elections ended in political deadlock.
  • boredtortoiseEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Leftist coalition wins election

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

  • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
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    11 days 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.

  • Arelin@lemmy.zipEnglish
    31·
    10 days ago

    Just liberals siding with fascists over leftists like they always do.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    11 days 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.

    • zaphod@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      11 days 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.

    • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
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      11 days 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.