re: Election stolen in France.

This isn’t very unusual for France, though. The way their elections work tends to benefit the center at the expense of the left or right extremes. In this case, the center was unexpectedly weak in the first round. So, rather than the right joining the center to defeat the left, the center joined the left to defeat the right. France deserves everything that’s coming to them. Macron fumbled a winning hand with incompetence, and the left is about to double down on all of his economic missteps.

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The globalists are really wreaking havoc on Europe.

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Scary part is France and GB have nukes. And might have Sharia law before too long. We are losing key allies without a shot fired

Explains it better

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Tactical voting isn't new to parliamentary elections. The blue checks look ridiculous proclaiming it like its news or something they have just discovered/uncovered. Both the NFP and Ensemble made it known ahead of time they were going to do this.

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WHO is importing these Africans

They didn't wander into France

They were BROUGHT

BY WHOM

Once you figure that out you'll learn

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The French have been importing them for many decades since they dismantled their colonial possessions in North Africa. The migrant issue is not as new to France as the other western nations.

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The migrant issue is not as new to France as the other western nations.

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It's worse. There are 2nd or 3rd generation French whose grandparents were Algerian, Tunisian or Sub-Saharan African, yet they despise their home country and the only place they've ever called home. There is no desire of many of these immigrants to assimilate. Say what you will about our immigrants, but if you meet a Hispanic baw who is an American citizen and whose parents were American citizens, chances are they are net contributors to our treasury and love this country. France is a boiling pot right now that will spill over in the near future.

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France is a boiling pot right now that will spill over in the near future.

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Its been 70 years since they have completely upended and replaced their government, so they are certainly due.

It makes sense for the left to import “citizens”. They are pathetic and want Banana Republics.

Lol the french getting rid of their trash

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It is the fourth example that I would like to draw the most attention to; the erosion of the political centre. France’s administrative state is the perfect example of Burnham’s “Managerial Elite”, not just because of the high level of administrative centralism in France (something that inspired the totalitarianism of fascism and communism), but because their ruling elites are a special caste all themselves, raised from their youth to be part of specific circles that attend the same schools which produce these same managers. Several generations of this method have created this caste that is distant, very distant, from the people that they govern. They are distant culturally, philosophically, economically, socially, and more often than not, geographically from their fellow Frenchmen and women. This distance has only increased over time, and has manifested itself in the huge chasm separating the ruling elites of France from the French people, especially in political terms.

We have seen the centre erode (but not disappear) throughout the continent thanks to the rising tide of populism, and France is no exception to this rule. Successive governments run by the centre/centre-right/centre-left have failed to address the causes of the malaise that has governed the country for decades now. Whether Sarkozy, Hollande, or Macron, the French have been unable to reform their own country in order to give it the necessary jolt to wake it up from its slumber. There are many reasons for this, too many to get into in this essay, but it is the inability of France to correct course that has seen French voters turn to parties outside of the acceptable mainstream in order to seek solutions to the problems that bedevil the country.

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RN got more than double the votes that Macron’s Renaissance managed to score. This made RN by far the most popular political party in France, a party that is very much not allowed in polite company in that country or anywhere else in the West.

This is how the map of France looked after the vote for the EU Parliamentary election:

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On the opposite site of the political spectrum, the French left managed to immediately cobble together an electoral coalition calling itself the “New Popular Front”, harkening back to the Popular Front led by Leon Blum that won the 1936 French election. A motley crew of communists, Marxists, democratic socialists, left-wing regional separatists, ecologists, and even Islamists, they charged ahead to challenge the election, with notorious red firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon as the face of the coalition.

President Macron kept his cards close to his chest, purposely failing to inform everyone outside of his immediate circle. This infuriated many of his allies, with ex-French Ambassador to the USA Gerard Araud describing his gamble as:

A reckless decision had thrown France under the bus. The bus has come…. France is heading towards a far-right government or an ungovernable parliament. Two unpalatable outcomes.

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Macron urged voters to support whichever candidate was up against RN, no matter which party or coalition they represented. Would it work?
The Second Round
The cordon sanitaire managed to hold.

Tactical voting saw a largely three-way split for seats in the upcoming French Assembly, denying RN not just a majority, but both first and second place. Tactical voting was aided by a very high turnout:

Where it gets very interesting is when you look at the popular vote vs. the allotment of seats:

The RN-led coalition scored 37.1% of the popular vote, but only got 142 seats in the assembly.

Macron’s Ensemble got 25.43% of the popular vote, but got 159 seats.

The New Popular Front got 25.8% of the popular vote, earning them the most seats at 180.

Despite the cordon sanitaire doing its job yet again, Macron’s gamble failed, at least according to French political analyst Francois Valentin:

“He lost 80 seats and his MPs now hate his guts. He has accelerated his "lame duckisation" And if he governs with the left they'll unravel what he did over the last 7 years. This is a pyrrhic defeat.”

Translation: France’s centre has significantly eroded.

If Macron chooses to rely on the New Popular Front (NFP), he will have to negotiate with a coalition whose economic platform includes:

“…..raise the monthly minimum wage to €1,600, impose price ceilings on essential foods, electricity, gas and petrol, repeal Macron’s deeply unpopular decision to raise the retirement age to 64 and invest massively in the green transition and public services.”

This makes investors very, very nervous:

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Macron’s only hope lies in trying to peel off enough coalition members from both the left and right to form a “national unity” government, as his party cannot govern with the NFP as it is, and outright refuses to allow RN into government. The only other option is a technocratic government that would last one year under France’s constitutional rules, with another general election to follow. There is an inevitability hanging in the air that RN eventually will gain power.

France is now on the cusp of being totally ungovernable due to the repeated failure of the ruling elites to deliver a better France. This is an indictment not just of the French ruling class, but of liberal democracy as well.

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