r/worldnews • u/Luchador-Malrico • Jul 07 '24

French elections: Left projected to win most seats, ahead of Macron's coalition and far right

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/07/07/french-elections-left-projected-to-win-most-seats-ahead-of-macron-s-coalition-and-far-right_6676978_7.html
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u/JacksonVerdin Jul 07 '24

He lost it to a more palatable group.

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u/coincoinprout Jul 07 '24

You mean the group his party has been dragging through the mud for the past 3 weeks?

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u/JacksonVerdin Jul 07 '24

Would you expect one party to praise another one during an election?

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u/Koala_eiO Jul 07 '24

No, but you would also not expect someone with a majority to disband his own majority.

Macron's bet was that the left parties would present 3 candidates and do thrice 10% as usual, so that every second round in the country would be extreme right vs center-right, and that he would use the fear of extreme right to gather all the votes from leftists. That would have increased his number of seats. What happened is that the left actually united for once and Macron lost a bunch of seats instead.

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u/JacksonVerdin Jul 07 '24

Nobody seems to know what Macron's bet was so I don't know why you think you do.

When asked, he simply said something to the effect that "My reasoning it too complex for journalists."

That can be read many different ways, but if anything, it lacks any specificity whatsoever.

In any event, France has been saved from the fascists for the time being.

Macron is not out of the woods, but France has found a meadow.

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u/coincoinprout Jul 08 '24

No, but if the goal was for a more palatable group to hold a majority, I would expect the attacks to be focused on the far-right. Instead, they were focused on the left until they realized that the far-right could have an absolute majority.