Can France form coalition government after Macron's election gamble?

Ahead of the exit poll last night - every expectation had been that the far right National Rally would have the largest number of representatives in parliament with Marine Le Pen's prodigee, the 28-year-old Jordan Bardella at its helm.
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But Emmanuel Macron's enormous gamble to force the French public to confront this reality seems to have worked - well sort of. After winning the first round of the election eight days ago, the second round saw a unique coalition of convenience unite some very strange bedfellows in a single cause: to keep the nationalist right from power.
But the second part of the gamble - to find a stable government - has not worked.The far left, who hate Macron as much as the far right are now more prominent than ever and France is in for weeks, if not months of chaos and confusion. 'FRANCE INGOUVERNABLE' as one newspaper put it on its front page.
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[@123brownjames]

Not even General De Gaulle can get France out of this one…….

[@robinstevenson6690]

Ces't absurd!

[@cestlextase]

go back to reading about ceaser and no bitches

[@georgechristoforou991]

The shenanigans will end up in revolt and chaos in France. The new French government will not last the full term,.

[@clarencespangle6351]

*N* orth *A* tlantic *T* errorist *O* rganization

[@edsr164]

People, this is an absolute win for Le Pen.

[@Casiian_]

2:50 Damn that guy that got denied his champagne will definitely switch parties now. That face says it all 😂

[@StarPopyful]

Yes… that was ruthless…😂😢

[@byunbaekhyun2283]

lol yeah, he looks like he's gonna cry in 1 second if not for the camera.

[@jujutrini8412]

I thought I was the only one to spot that. 😂😂😂

[@Casiian_]

@@byunbaekhyun2283 😂

[@user-ln3lh2pz8h]

.... the gamble paid off!! Now Macron has a hung parliament and can rule by decree.

[@frankyg2384]

Which is so bad for France, what happened is disgusting.

[@Normal_Boii]

Isn't that undemocratic or smtg

[@Freedomforeverall]

Better than facists runnung the country! You guys talk as if you have brains, but we all know the truth.

[@cacaulaymulkin7724]

If the majority voted for this result; it's not a "shock".

[@MonsterMind-i6o]

My thinking is... cut all the government funding for these idiots in the "think tanks" and lower the age for pensions for everyone. Money for wars and champagne in Brussels but no money to make people's lives better.

[@RobertLeighJames92]

How is the US turning towards Asia and away from Europe? 😂 What is she talking about

[@johnrussell3961]

It’s a pacific nation. There is now more wealth being created around the pacific rim than in Europe.

[@ssuwandi3240]

Because China is ,#1 threat and if you're in US you're likely more updated than the rest of the world EVs Suxkers

[@RobertLeighJames92]

@@johnrussell3961 so how exactly is the US turning to Asia? My question is not who is creating more wealth but what foregin policy has changed in the US. Last I looked it was not best friends with China. And nothing else has really changed. I also disagree with your assursion. Japans economy as well as china's is stagnating. Aus FP hasn't changed, thaliand isn't isn't exactly doing much no Laos or Cambodia, indonisia I don't know but again what is the US changing there? What else?

[@WhatNotEven]

@@RobertLeighJames92Turning to Asia in the sense that they are focusing on forming strategic partnerships to contain China, which they see as their largest and most existential rival. That used to be Russia, ergo the European theatre was the focus of their strategic efforts, but now it’s the Asia-pacific

[@danesovic7585]

@@RobertLeighJames92 America is a brown country now. That's why they're turning to Asia and LatAm.

[@undesignated3491]

All those people cheering. Your POOR !!!! No use they will never get it

[@steveellis7748]

The Front Populaire is a coalition of 4 parties; three of them hate the fascist anti-semitic LFI. No mention that the National Rally is the biggest party in the assembly. What do you expect from Channel 4 News?

[@petem9994]

It's interesting how strategically this young activist Jourdain Bardella has quickly become a strong political force.

[@robinstevenson6690]

He's a weak little "pansy."

[@kriskalpa]

RN actually got the largest vote share. You should make that clear in your report. The RN will win in 2027.

[@juxbertrand]

Branlée sur branlée - c'est comme pour Trump Pépito.Seules les nations décadentes comme la Hongrie, la Serbie et surtout la Russie résistent à la mondialisation pacifique. Le RN est mort, définitivement mort. Car transversalement, les Français n'en veulent pas.Des débiles.

[@allthenewsordeath5772]

If things become deadlocked and dysfunctional enough, they could call another election sooner than that even

[@barbstegner4639]

Long live Frances 🇫🇷 from the USA 🙏 ✨ 🇺🇸

[@chrischristof6705]

Game is over, baby 😂

[@Thichaou]

A kosher? Out of Urope now!

[@Kevin-fq3zh]

it’ll be frankistan in a few years time

[@not_ever]

Who is Frances?

[@titteryenot4524]

Yes, let McDormand live!

[@jujutrini8412]

If the left coalition do not do popular things that the majority of the people of France want then it will allow the enthusiasm for the right to build up more steam.

[@tsailor100]

That coalition will not last. Strange bed fellows.

[@robinstevenson6690]

And are we not even stranger "bed fellows?"

[@yellowlynx]

The French have got to learn how to compromise if they want their country in one piece.

[@sadjaxx]

The French know who the enemy are! Pity Americans are clueless.

[@robinstevenson6690]

We're likely to see a compromise of the left and centre to smash the right.

[@thetreelander7378]

@@sadjaxx thats is funny, yelllowlynx said learn to compromise (i.e. don't devolve into violence) and you are with your language pushing towards social violence.

[@frenzy1111]

The left did compromise, in quite a short time too.

[@TimoDyer]

Center and Left parties have to work together.

[@alexrobinson2103]

They will work together. Haha nice joke, they all hate eachother, they have to team up at 2nd round because they dont want Le Pen win the election

[@Kevin-fq3zh]

and turn the country into an islamic state

[@benusmaximus3601]

Nah the centre and centre-right need to work together to block out the Left...

[@NefetariMoonRay]

ABSOLUTELY.

[@guillaumeroger81]

Center is part of Macron's coalition. During the last seven years they managed to make far right being more and more alive. Macron has promissed he would stop their influence in french political life during is presidency. At the contrary, as a result of Macron's policy, Rassemblement National was very near to get power this sunday. That is why the left wing don't want to work with people who brought far right almost at the top. RN is the opposite of the left and RN hates Macron's party as the left wing. If the left wing and center create a coalition, it's the best way to make far right progress and to betray the left voters.

[@carlosmbaziira4137]

vive la france

[@1tr1ck]

To many frog legs for too long. U will pay 😂

[@AlderCones]

6:17 'but he also lost, the... con-Fidence

[@tamiya2323]

English is his second language... what you expect

[@robinstevenson6690]

The idea that RN will continue to gain an increased % of vote share is ridiculous. Don't they understand the tendency of growth curves toward an asymptote (leveling off)? All RN has done is reach the zenith of their asymptote. France has rejected them!

[@akashnikunj-sp8yv]

10 million vote npf is not.a party like Labour party they're coalition

[@robinstevenson6690]

@@akashnikunj-sp8yv Quite a weak attempt at an "education!" Go home, akashnikunj!

[@BrunoHeggli-zp3nl]

Sure!

[@Albert87nl]

1:36 only special people.. which have hazlenuts for brains

[@KarinRamey-uk6sq]

Did Sorros help?

[@alexandera9710]

Compare, how the far-left and far-right supporters look. And you will understand everything.

[@davidmcculloch8490]

Never judge a book by its cover.

[@chairmanRob]

"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes."

[@johnrussell3961]

When given a choice , macrons centrists voted for the far left rather than the far right.

[@IRABAH]

Wooton woooo woooo hahaha losers...

[@LA-kc7ev]

I was thinking the same.

[@mysarc]

The best part was at 2:55 when the bartender takes the champagne from the RN supporter's hands and puts it on ice, just like an adult putting a child who knows nothing in their place. A fitting metaphor for the RN.

[@allthenewsordeath5772]

When a good chunk of the new coalition is made up of actual honest to God communists in the year of our Lord 2024, saying the people who think migration has gotten out of hand judging by all the riots and Palestinian flags are the dumb ones is a little bit laughable.

[@user-sg4ei3vv2t]

Hes just triggered the next Les Mis.

[@AnjanettePlanda-ce2rj]

Wow nice

[@user-tt6sq1ft1m]

French teats in France and Canada

[@dimtool4183]

What a broken system with a president and prime minister not having to be of same majority party, or the need for president at all.

[@serebii666]

are you completely politically illiterate?

[@zyzxyz]

It was totally predictable, first question is wrong

[@VaucluseVanguard]

Didn’t Channel 4’s French correspondent work down in the basement in the IT department.

[@robinstevenson6690]

Love Channel 4!

[@braxxian]

France is all over the shop. One day it’s right wing, the next left. No wonder the place is such a mess.

[@TeresaArtilesHernandez-cr3ib]

Amazing video, really loved it!

[@holyfordus]

*”Mister Bardella, what went wrong?”* The RN only got 33% vote share, meaning 67%-or over two-thirds of the French voting electorate-did not want them. Nothing “went wrong,” better luck next election.

[@theactivecoconut6077]

37% in the second round though. They still won the most votes by far. I personally see it as a victory for RN because they can just blame all the problems on the center and left next election.

[@covfefe1787]

no they got 37.4% of vote share over 10 million votes far more than the communist bloc and the Macronists. Ordinairy French people lost due to the elites manuevering. In a proportianal system RN should be forming a government not the communists.

[@LMGuelph]

They will be back to the polls in a few months, minority governments don't last, just ask Canada.

[@Edmuresrampantmanhood-dp3jd]

​@@covfefe1787 In a proportional system there wouldn't be a second round, RN would only receive 33%, and be way further from a majority than any other party.

[@holyfordus]

@@theactivecoconut6077 Fair, they did do better in the second round. The issue though is they *demanded* a majority, straight up said they wouldn’t form a Cabinet without 51% of the legislative seats. They were never going to get to govern. The RN might get a chance if this government fails, which is possible, but if the new government ends up even marginally more popular than Macron they’re kind of screwed. This is the French, though, so they’ll probably get a shot

[@RobertLeighJames92]

Hard left ooh not far left. Only the right is far but the left is hard... Mmm...

[@CurvaceousCrow]

You're not the sharpest knife in the kitchen are you Robert

[@taekwanlew]

Heres a suggestion. Book yourself into a course on politics. You will soon understand what fascism is and where it sits on the spectrum.It'll save the embarrassment

[@connorparsfield7456]

There is no hard left maybe the communist party in France but the others are moderate left wing parties

[@RobertLeighJames92]

@@CurvaceousCrow I am not a knife no. Care to explain to me the symantics of my question or straight to ad hominems?

[@gomey70]

zzzzzz

[@robinstevenson6690]

I think the wisdom of the French people will result in a coalition of centrists to govern France until 2027.

[@-_YouMayFind_-]

This is what you get when you divide people and the media plays on this. Facebook as well by the way.

[@BillOdyssey]

BOOHOO WAAAAAHHHHH

[@udaan2001]

I could find only one comment in French language. Rest in English. Why?

[@ocean1233]

🪅MAJORITY RULES 🌟🪅 and Egomaniacs are grotesque!

[@Tymbus]

How can your reporter describe the rise of The Right in France as "inexorable" (ie relentless, unstoppable) when it was stopped in its tracks! Your journalism is getting really poor

[@1antag0nist53]

It would have been unstoppable if the good people of france didn’t come together as one to stop them. Maybe that goes to show how awful NR’s politics are

[@frankyg2384]

@@1antag0nist53 France is done now, it's going to be no different than Venezuela with these far left socialist/communist nut jobs in power, they just announced they'll be spending hundreds of billions of tax dollars to fund their ideology driven dumpster fire, what Macron and the left did is disgusting, the so called "Good people of France" didn't vote enough to win which is why the far left party dropped out to form an authoritarian coalition with Macron by giving Macron their seats, the right wing party got the most votes and was going to win, they didn't lose by the amount of votes, they lost because of a scummy slimy snake of a move the left pulled.

[@panda-ep6xo]

They almost doubled their number of seats. “Not winning a majority” does not inherently mean they lost.

[@RESIST_THE_GREAT_REPLACEMENT]

@@1antag0nist53 Bad* people

[@dimtool4183]

They're constantly rising in all european countries, it's a matter of time unless stronger left parties take the lead.

[@user-wx9ox4nx1r]

#MANIFESTATION

[@ralphmaver1489]

Not possible for extreme right and extreme left to have a coalition.

[@ralphmaver1489]

... unless they want a civil war.

[@luminousfractal420]

i dunno look at keir starmer 😂 the problem for them is the moves were not made for the far right, they were msde for the eugenicists. the far right are on little boats with the rest of us. just tools that got used.

[@MrBoliao98]

It's called a National Unity Government and it has happened.

[@frankyg2384]

@@MrBoliao98 It's called a far left nut job extremist socialist communist coalition government.

[@ryanfoo5286]

@@luminousfractal420 the tories and nr are quite different

[@makumaru]

Phahaha Uk as a role model hahaha

[@AnjanettePlanda-ce2rj]

❤❤❤

[@jeffmurray6219]

Democracy loses again, very regrettable.

[@fspg3207]

Wrong, it worked very well.

[@nemo8748]

It's very reassuring to hear the Leftwing candidate say that they are commited to supporting Ukraine in their manifesto.

[@AnjanettePlanda-ce2rj]

❤

[@casslane3932]

this is mad i get they didnt want nazis but this is realy a lesser evil and i dont think it will hold

[@dumbl4421]

helping normal people instead of parasites is the lesser 'evil'? restoring pensions to how they were before macron gutted them so he can increase the surplus army of labour is bad? stopping pollution and improving healthcare is evil?

[@justhannah3960]

@@dumbl4421 Populist bullshit and stop being a Nazi.

[@thetreelander7378]

@@dumbl4421 and you think socialists and communists will have genuine care?

[@kerozen7674]

They didn't want Nazis but they have a gay dictator with his harem as ministers now. Enjoy!

[@cypherborg81]

wallah frere tema la tète de champion qu'il a ce macron ah lala je l'addor. Macron gloire éternité wallah frere

[@philsophkenny]

😮

[@skiman6810]

Show the riots !! way more interesting !!!!

[@IRABAH]

wooo woooo woooo.hahahaha losers

[@sa.shamol]

8⁸

[@carlgreene538]

Great news for France well done!

[@aafiaturkey6748]

GAZA? genocide?

[@thetreelander7378]

but the question for that is where is the tractors.

[@zyzxyz]

France got its taste , hurray , from india 🇮🇳..now taste shariah

[@TR_Emeritus]

Of course it can. Centrist joins Left to form the government, leaving right in limbo.

[@Flexinciple]

Too much ideological differences between the centrist and the far left. Highly highly unlikely.

[@dansomething7742]

The coalition of left wing parties is already VERY broad, it ranges from far left to centre left. It might well not stretch much further

[@TimeMakerDotPH]

Yeah, it worked like how leftists, socialists, liberals, and centre-right formed an alliance during the Fourth Republic called the "Third Force" to keep the Gaullist out of the government. Then they messed up so much in Algeria that de Gaulle was brought back to power by 1958. News media like to compare the RN to the Vichy regime when it's more like the original Gaullism. They didn't stop anything, they just delayed it and the RN will grow stronger. Don't believe, they just literally got the largest vote share. So you better hope that this so-called "left-center government" governs well or else, it will just take one crisis for the so-called "far-right" to be swept into power.

[@sointaminn]

​@@dansomething7742 It could, if Macron's party accepts defeat. Faure's left-centre Socialist Party refuses to join Macron, so it will have to be the other way around.

[@EZEKIELAIA]

Thank God for Pins!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Thichaou]

Now they will have no excuses in 2027! Deliver or Le Pen is the next president!

[@ashben74]

God help us if they do !

[@maneshipocrates2264]

Le Pen will never be French president. You may have to read more about France. The left leaning voters hate the right leaning voters. They will NEVER change.

[@NefetariMoonRay]

HOPEFULLY BY THIS TIME THE DANGER FROM PUTINS THREATS UPON 250 000 000 LIVES WILL HAVE PASSED BY, BY PUTIN HAVING TO ENDURE HIS OWN CONSEQUENCES.

[@RESIST_THE_GREAT_REPLACEMENT]

Well they won’t deliver, so looks like Le Pen will be your next president 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

[@maneshipocrates2264]

France will never vote for that lady and right wing boy to become PM. U know nothing about France. Get off the drugs.

[@TheCoolsparks]

French politicians are fine

[@Freemyselfanddontcarrre4]

LVMH احب الدمى واحب الاستحمام معها انا اكل الحديد والنحاس انا من نار واقو.ا ايمان من عايشه

[@Jamietheroadrunner]

Fascist tears 😢 delicious as usual 😋

[@frankyg2384]

The irony is you're the fascists.

[@RESIST_THE_GREAT_REPLACEMENT]

It will be your tears once you start living in a sh*thole

[@johnwashingtoncountyor4954]

I don't think Macron will have any problem with "embrasser le bas" to get his agenda met.

[@titteryenot4524]

Truth is that millions of ordinary Europeans are sick of mass immigration. I’ll give you a recent personal example: I was on holiday in Provence recently. I visited the gorgeous old perfume town of Grasse. Every single resident I saw was an Arab. It felt like Tangiers or Algiers. It certainly didn’t feel like France. If I want to visit an Arab town I go to Africa or Asia (which I do regularly); Europe shouldn’t be creating whole towns of non-Europeans. No other continent does this stuff to this degree.

[@lowwfeh]

I lived in provence for almost one year from 2022-2023 and you are straight up lying

[@fxhzwingzero]

bIrth problems are the problem, our reliance of pfa's is killing birth rates and micro plastics! Plus they weren't hurting anybody, so whats your point besidesbeing racist lol

[@titteryenot4524]

@@lowwfehNo, I’m not. Go to Grasse and tell me I’m wrong. 👍

[@titteryenot4524]

@@fxhzwingzeroHow is it ‘racist’ to point out that a European town full of Arabs to the exclusion of most others is odd? It’s nothing to do with racism. I don’t care what you are. I was just pointing out how odd it feels that so many Western European towns/cities feel distinctly un-European. I have nothing against Arabs, here. I’m just against the ghettoisation of so much of Europe. Most mix. Islam doesn’t. Islam doesn’t want to mix. 👍

[@titteryenot4524]

@@lowwfehJust out of interest, where in Provence did you live?

[@noctarin1516]

That woman wearing the pink vest deserves to be the new Prime Minister.

[@davidmcculloch8490]

If the far right is the answer, you are either asking the wrong question or looking in the wrong direction because of their populist deflection.

[@covfefe1787]

arent the left just islamic populists? they are held hostage by gaza

[@luminousfractal420]

✊

[@monk3yboy69]

Total fix

[@johnrussell3961]

The rules weren’t changed since last time..

[@gomey70]

boo hoo

[@carlog5791]

french tax payers lost, free loaders won lol

[@Lenny2Lux]

Vive le Front Populaire!

[@user-jv7ug1hb5m]

الغموض الجماعي

[@ashben74]

hate will win never win

[@Thichaou]

The commies are winning, R U blind?😂

[@ciaranharrington4141]

Get back in your 20m shoe box apartment, collect your 1.5k p/m and drink your soup kid

[@thommantelokam2956]

@@ThichaouCommis & Jihadists are same

[@ashben74]

@@Thichaou I'm not sure what you mean.

[@Coltaire]

@@Thichaou rather than facism

[@TrustMeiamaD.R.]

Dad always said WW2 French resistance was a myth and that they were happy to be Nazi collaborators.

[@eca3101]

100%

[@konradsartorius7913]

It’s more complicated. Many French institutions, especially the police, largely collaborated. However, much of the French public resisted.

[@marleneboycie4004]

Thanks for sharing this context.​@@konradsartorius7913

[@RobertLeighJames92]

Communism welcome France.

[@taekwanlew]

ohh for goodness sake. If you don't know anything about politics then don't comment. Comunism?

[@gomey70]

😂 go back to sleep, this is for adults.

[@user-sb3sn8di1s]

BETTER THAN NAZISM

[@brojwz2314]

​@@taekwanlew they are communist or extreme leftist. Just accept what u are

[@RobertLeighJames92]

@@gomey70 such insight and wisdom. You managed to say nothing.. But used words to do that. That's truely incredible how you contributed to the conversation, you know like the adult you claim to be.

[@RobertLeighJames92]

Are you really asking an American about the differences of French politics and British 😂 I don't think she has a clue what she is talking about

[@shawndwayne8622]

We needed an alternative to the madness, now we got it!

[@uromvictor]

Another level of Madness

[@user-vs7nv8mo4e]

needs to form with the GREENS....and Macron's party

[@sointaminn]

Macron's political line has been hugely impopular and ineffective or the last 7 years and even the moderate left recognizes this. If a coalition forms, it will be the center joining the left and not the other way around.

[@checko_o7524]

So France surrenders yet again!

[@robinstevenson6690]

b.s.

[@devildevil2271]

Well, France is still under the US Israel management, so no worries

[@thetreelander7378]

oh shut up

[@RESIST_THE_GREAT_REPLACEMENT]

France has fallen. Such a shame.

[@robinstevenson6690]

That's completely balderdash, and utter malarkey. I feel sorry for anyone who holds such a preposterous view!

[@jebbo-c1l]

France is a great country, stop being a drama queen

[@xena2559]

Yep. RIP France.

[@robinstevenson6690]

@@xena2559 How completely and utterly ridiculous!

[@xena2559]

@@robinstevenson6690 sleep baby sleep. You'll soon see it thru

[@rarrafunfitness6230]

4 channel =fake news 📰📰

[@marleneboycie4004]

May I get some context on this and channel 4