Europe bracing for weakened Emmanuel Macron leadership due to unexpected election results.
French President Emmanuel Macron called for a 'governing pact' following unexpected results in legislative elections.
Macron's motives unclear, believed to be related to avoiding failure like previous French presidents.
New Popular Front (N.F.P) coalition came in first place, Rassemblement National (R.N.) was in third place.
New Popular Front plans to name prime minister this week, Macron names and has no time limit for choice.
French President Emmanuel Macron's call for a 'governing pact' in the French parliament following the recent elections has left Europe braced for a weakened leadership. The legislative elections produced unexpected results, with the New Popular Front (N.F.P) coalition of the left and centrist parties coming in first place, while Rassemblement National (R.N.) was in poor third place.
Macron's motives for dissolving the legislature are unclear but believed to be related to his belief in always being on the front foot and avoiding failure like previous French presidents. The New Popular Front plans to name its choice for prime minister this week, but under the Constitution of the Fifth Republic, Macron names the prime minister and there is no time limit for this choice.
The unexpected election results have left Europe bracing for a weakened Emmanuel Macron leadership. It remains unclear whether Macron means a delay that would mean no new government is in place when the Paris Olympics begin. For now, he has asked Prime Minister Gabriel Attal to continue in a caretaker capacity.
The New Popular Front's dependence on the extreme-left France Unbowed party and Jean-Luc Mélénchon's intolerant manner hindered its success. France is entering a period of 'normal' politics with improbable coalitions and multiparty rule, compared to Spain, Germany, and the European Parliament.
Macron's call for a governing pact comes as he attends the NATO summit in Washington. The unexpected election results have set the stage for a heated showdown between Macron and the New Popular Front.
French President Emmanuel Macron called for a 'broad gathering' of republican forces to form a coalition government after the legislative elections.
Macron rejected any role in government for the far-left France Unbowed party, setting the stage for a confrontation.
The New Popular Front, a resurgent left-wing alliance, came in first with about 180 seats in the National Assembly but was short of an absolute majority.
It was unclear whether Macron meant a delay that would mean no new government was in place when the Paris Olympics begin.
Macron has asked Prime Minister Gabriel Attal to continue in a caretaker capacity.
The New Popular Front believes it won the elections and plans to name its choice for prime minister this week.
Under the Constitution of the Fifth Republic, Macron names the prime minister and there is no time limit for this choice.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a 'governing pact' in the French parliament
French elections produced unexpected results, with Rassemblement National (R.N.) in poor third place behind New Popular Front (N.F.P) coalition of the left and centrist party of President Emmanuel Macron.
Compact made by republican parties of left and right to bow out in constituencies to consolidate around an anti-R.N candidate, called ‘voters of the left voting for the right, and voters of the right voting left.’
Macron’s motives for dissolving legislature unclear but believed to be related to his belief in always being on front foot and avoiding failure like previous French presidents.
Raphaël Glucksmann urged voters to embrace idea of voting for someone they don’t like to keep the worst away, inspired by parental philosophy that good cannot be defined but evil can.
N.F.P.’s dependence on extreme-left party La France Insoumise and Jean-Luc Mélénchon’s intolerant manner hindered its success.
France entering period of ‘normal’ politics with improbable coalitions and multiparty rule, compared to Spain, Germany, and European Parliament.
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]French elections produced unexpected results, with Rassemblement National (R.N.) in poor third place behind New Popular Front (N.F.P) coalition of the left and centrist party of President Emmanuel Macron.[
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The author expresses a clear bias against the extreme-right political party Rassemblement National (R.N.) and its leader Marine Le Pen. He describes them as insular, xenophobic, and pledging to remove multicultural individuals from public service roles. The author also uses derogatory language towards Jean-Luc Melenchon of the extreme-left party La France Insoumise, describing him as a demagogic and intolerant figure.
It was further disfigured by his intolerant and narcissistic manner, so much so that his popular deputy, Fran├žois Ruffin, had separated himself from the party.
Many possess dual nationalities, making them the kind of people that the extreme-right political party R.N. has pledged to remove from at least some public-service roles.
One could see, on the distraught face and in the mumbled defiance of Jordan Bardella, Le Pen’s twenty-eight-year-old prot├ęg├ę, who currently leads the R.N., just how unprepared the Party was for defeat.
The final result leaves formidable challenges. The N.F.P. insisted that its victory on Election Night is an endorsement of its program–a rather insulting thought to those who had been convinced that a vote for the N.F.P was, above all, a vote against the R.N.
The insular and xenophobic face of another France appeared to be about to govern it.
