France Elections: Left-Wing Alliance Surpasses Le Pen’s National Rally
Euronews TV: “France’s anti-far right forces have pushed Marine Le Pen’s National Rally from first to third place.”
France’s left-wing alliance is set to emerge as the largest bloc in the second and final round of the parliamentary election, early projections show. The leftist New Popular Front is being followed by President Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble alliance, pushing Marine Le Pen’s National Rally to the third spot.
New Popular Front, a coalition of leftist and Communist parties, is expected to win 172 to 192 seats, according to exit polls on Sunday evening. President Macron’s pro-EU alliance is set to get between 150 and 180 seats, ahead of the right-wing National Rally, which is set to secure between 120 and 150 seats.
If exit polls prove correct, no party or bloc may be able to get an absolute majority of 289 seats in the 650-member parliament, resulting in a hung parliament, French media reports indicate.
🔴🇫🇷 France's left-wing #NewPopularFront coalition won the most seats, but fell short of an absolute majority (pollsters @IpsosFrance/@Talan_World)
💬"The President has a duty to call on the New Popular Front to govern," says founder of the France unbowed party @JLMelenchon ⤵️… pic.twitter.com/xOkc0X0Sx6
— FRANCE 24 English (@France24_en) July 7, 2024
The French TV channel Euronews reported the exit polls released on Sunday evening:
France’s anti-far right forces have pushed Marine Le Pen’s National Rally from first to third place in France’s legislative assembly elections second round, according to poll estimates following the close of voting.
The left-wing coalition, the New Popular Front (NFP), is expected to have between 172 and 192 seats, the IPSOS poll found. Meanwhile, the centrist liberal democrats of President Emmanuel Macron are to reach between 150 and 170 seats, pollsters say, while the centre-right Republicans (LR) could get between 57 and 67 parliamentary seats.
National Rally, the far-right party led by Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, is predicted to garner between only 132-152 seats, giving it likely third place, trailing recent Ipsos projections that Le Pen and her allies from the Republicans party might win between 230 and 280 seats.
France, Ipsos exit poll:
Snap national parliament election, second round (seat distribution)
NFP-LEFT|G/EFA|S&D: 172-192
Ensemble-RE: 150-170
RN and allies-ID: 135-155
LR-EPP: 57-67
Divers gauche-*: 13-16
Divers-*: 8-11
UDI-RE: 6-8➤ https://t.co/oL97q6lO3I #législatives2024… pic.twitter.com/O9jorohZSY
— Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) July 7, 2024
In the first round of the polls held on July 1, National Rally — led by its new leader, 28-year-old Jordan Bardella — emerged as the largest party, winning over 33 percent of the vote and close to winning a majority in France’s lower house National Assembly.
President Macron called the snap elections after his party was trounced by the National Rally in the recent European Union election.
Goodnight France. You’ve always been good at being rapidly conquered. https://t.co/luriE9EqF1
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) July 7, 2024
Police, shops owners fear violent leftist mobs
Business owners boarded up their shops in upscale areas Paris to prevent looting and arson by leftist and migrant protesters triggered by the election results.
“Shops on central Parisian streets like the Champs Elysees began boarding up their facades ahead of the results, DW TV reported Sunday evening as polls closed. “Some retailers in the more upmarket streets of central Paris had kept barricades up all week between the two rounds of voting, fearing potential protests or vandalism in the aftermath of the results following a fractious snap election campaign.”
Police has been mobilized to protect the French parliament from potential angry leftist mobs.
“Police vans are now parked outside France’s National Assembly building in Paris as the second round enters its final stages,” Euronews reported Sunday evening. “Politicians have warned of potential violence tonight once the results come out and have urged citizens to take necessary precautions.”
There are reports of celebrations over National Rally’s poor showing in the election.
“People gathered at the Place de la République in Paris and chanted, “Everyone hates fachos (fascists),” following the results of the snap legislative elections,” France24 reported.
« tout le monde déteste les fachos » est scandé par les manifestants présents sur la place de la #Republique après les résultats des élections législatives #ElectionsLegislatives2024 #legislatives2024 #FrontPopulaire pic.twitter.com/dtmkgHP7A3
— Timothée Forget (@xztim_) July 7, 2024
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so the violence from the leftwingers in the streets has given them the edge?
Several places I’ve read, “French Jews get out while you can.”
This is a horrible day for world Jewry, not just French Jewry. Not only will it be open season to massacre Jews in France, but a vile Jew-hating Nazi like Melanchon will not hesitate to threaten Israel with nuking it if it invades Lebanon.
It likely sets up a second Holocaust and a civilization=ending nuclear response by Israel.
You can never just flush these grasping power-hungry turds, can you?
I take it that you’ve never been to Paris?
The French sewer system just couldn’t handle it.
Besides, what did those rats crawling down there ever do to you that you’d subject them to this cruelty?
The two right wing parties, taken together, got more deputies than the left wing alliance.
The hard leftist Mélenchon, the leader of the left alliance, is now calling on Macron to resign immediately.
Pretty stupid, as the left will need Macron’s support to form a government.
I could be wrong (because I generally find parliamentary elections confusing AF), but it seems that the French system of having two rounds of voting favors the establishment. If an insurgent party – like NR – does surprisingly well in the 1st round, it allows the establishment to work with more favorable parties to marginalize the insurgency in key races. That appears to have worked a treat for the left today.
I would be really curious what the seat count would have been if France had a one-round, first-past-the-post system as exists in the UK.
It favors the voter, not the establishment. First-past-the-post is just fundamentally unfair. Nobody should ever be elected without a majority saying they prefer that person to any available alternative. If the voter has all the information he needs and makes the wrong choice, that’s democracy. Look at Georgia or Louisiana, where they do this regularly.
Preferential voting (aka, “ranked choice”, or “instant run-off”, or several other names), as has been used in Australia for nearly a century, is the best system, because it gets an accurate snapshot of voters’ wishes on election day, so everyone has the same information and there’s no room for manipulation in between rounds, as happened in France where candidates resigned so as to force their supporters to vote for someone else. Let the voters make those choices, not the candidates. In Australia the candidates recommend how their supporters should allocate their preferences, and have volunteers hand out “how-to-vote” cards with their recommendations, but their voters are free to ignore those suggestions.
A true ‘ranked choice’ would follow the same format as the weekly college football polls. So it five candidates then each voter puts them in order of preference 1-5. Then that ranking is assigned points inverse to the ranking so:
#1 gets 5 pts, #2 gets 4 pts all the way down to #5 which gets 1 pt. If the voter chooses to decline to assign any points to candidates #2-#5 that’s fine as well.
Then add the points for each candidate. Most points is the winner. One day election. Very simple. Combines elements the advocates of ‘ranked choice’ desire but removes complexity while also putting the preferences of the voter as the priority over the mechanics of the process.
I could probably get behind this system so long as it wasn’t used as gateway to jungle primary nonsense or ridiculous (IMO) ‘ranked choice’ where the voter’s political power is automatically transferred by the mechanics of the process.
Ranked choice voting is retarded
Ranked choice voting is a safety net for the establishment. Even the unpopular incumbent gets a free vote down the ranking.
if France falls in the middle of the night will Joe hear it?
While I don’t care about France and their outcome much, I am curious if this means their slide into Muslim hell will be affected by the outcome.
Yes. The slide will be accelerated.
This is France. They gave the world Robespierre’s Committee of Public Safety (if safety means death by the guillotine and nascent insane communist radicalism) and the Vichy regime. If Britain has capitulated to the leftist insanity, no way France has the integrity or courage to do it. It just isn’t in the French national character.
England has nukes and the lefties took over with help from Muslims.
France has nukes and the lefties took over with help from Muslims.
The US has nukes and Biden is kissing muslim butt to get re-elected.
Jews are an endangered spieces and soon, Christians will be as well.
And something else this, the recent British disgrace, and frankly any democrat success in this country demonstrates. Voters are stupid. I mean just irredeemably frigging stupid. Can’t quite explain how this country ever managed to come into being but voter stupidity pretty much dominates globally today.
There’s a reason that things like owning property or being able to read or being male were uses to restrict who can vote.
I’m referring to the irresponsible and ignorant exercise of the franchise to the ultimate detriment of your own country. I didn’t say restrict votes but voting with your head up your ____, probably isn’t the wisest course.
Th existing political structure will make all sorts of compromises to thwart a rising populist movement (see French elections) and if that won’t work they will run the ship aground rather than defer to prevailing populist mood/wishes of the voters (see Brexit, huge majority for Tories in ’19 squandered to result in last week’s British election).
It is absolutely delusional to think the western nations are able to fix their political problems by voting.
Has freedom ever been restored without massive use of force and the horror that goes with it.
Shades of our November?
Yep … typical French.
In 5 years, the Muslims will have run over France and England, the only fun will be seeing the Muslims and Cultural Marxists fight it out afterwards.
The fix was in
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