The France Thread: Oui Oui, Bonbons and all that bad stuff 🇫🇷
She doesn't swing your way famIf you say so ...
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What are they inclined to do?..... Surely anything other strengthens and emboldens La Merde.....
It's really fukked up.
This basically means that Macron made a deal with the RN, right?
What the fukk is the point of a "Republican front" when, in the end, Macron was more willing to negotiate with the RN than with the NFP?
I think the answer is that the "Republican front" was being cynically used by Macron for his own personal benefit, not because he actually believed in it. I think Macron's calculation was that the left parties would be unable to unite, leaving Macron's crew as the only ones who could save the electorate from the RN boogeyman. His strategy backfired when the NFP was formed and enough NFP candidates did well enough in the first round that they couldn't be coerced into dropping before the second round out in favor of Macron-ist candidates who they outperformed.
Currently, nothing they can do but be mad at Macron which they already were. Just, next time they will have 0 incentive to do the right thing
Macron always leaned right. Even when he was in the Socialist Party, he was on the Strauss-Khan wave so he was really a centrist then.
Macron really had one simple thing to do which was give something back to the left as a thank you. Macron technically got the best outcome in the second round. The three ways were benefitial to his party mostly and he got an unexpectedly good number of congressmen when they were supposed to be wiped out.
He was always technically right that a left-only government would have fallen quick but he should have pushed for a NFP-led gov to open up somehow to be able to reach up to center right, so there would not be a majority against the gov.
He could also have made a gambit by telling the left to make their left only gov and the moment they got censored, he could have told them that they failed so he would allow a right-only gov. But he made the worst choice by freezing them out totally and giving RN king maker powers.
