How France’s left stopped a far-right surge | The Story

Against all predictions, France’s left wing coalition won more seats than Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France’s parliamentary elections. With Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance party losing seats and power, what now for French politics?
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[@VV-bk1wv]

Three different parties banned together to prevent the peoples choice. The people didn't reject the right, those in power prevented the peoples choice

[@raevj]

Just like Trump was beat by multiple Democrat-run swing states changing election laws illegally, the new laws were overturned by courts afterwards as unconstitutional.

[@haleffect9011]

Are you kidding? 35% of the popular vote ain't a majority kiddo

[@richardpadden]

​@@haleffect9011. 33.7%

[@notyourordinarygran]

​@@3RJSMFCBOT. RUSSIANS ARE WAR CRIMINALS

[@notyourordinarygran]

They majority voted for the LEFT, that's how it works.

[@Elfling26]

Keep going Times you are rapidly losing any ounce of credibility you once had

[@Madoldcatlady]

Ohh, I think they lost it a while back now.

[@netweed09]

@@Elfling26 But here you are, engaging and giving them your precious time. 🍉

[@Lorgar64]

​@netweed09 The times doesn't make money off of someone commenting. The guy clearly wants the Times to be better.

[@bergssprangare]

20 million mudslim immigrants on their way to UK and France..

[@MrDaiseymay]

SAME AS GBN. WON'T WATCH 'EM ANYMORE. LET THEM PAY FOR THEIR TREATCHERY.

[@shropsiberian]

It was rigged. It's that simple. You don't go from one extreme to another in a week.

[@netweed09]

Why do you even care you're not French?! 😂 Too many entitled comment nomads spouting nonsense.

[@elib9002]

C'mon, maaan. that's what all those "backup" voters are for!

[@netweed09]

@@shropsiberian No. You wisen up and vote for Winners.

[@alee_enn]

If you ever need a modern example of a conspiracy, what happened in France in the 2nd round of these elections, is a perfect example.

[@mogznwaz]

Yes, open collusion and gerrymandering. The RN got more votes than anyone else but came 3rd - like Reform’s votes in the UK being grossly unrepresented by seats

[@Sly_Wolf_1]

😂😂 I laugh because I said this in advance. I already said to several people in conversation that I genuinely believed the "system" would not allow them in. "Surprise surprise" no definitely not surprised.

[@notyourordinarygran]

There is nothing wrong with parties on one side putting forward candidates in a strategic manner. It is not illegal, in fact, it is sensible. Only 33% voted for the right, that isn't taking away people's right to vote for who they wish.

[@netweed09]

@@notyourordinarygran Thank you. 👍👍 There are some adults in the comments after all!

[@samsby14]

​@@notyourordinarygran only 33% 😂 Yes ONE PARTY got 33% 1/3rd of the entire population while 4 parties had to band together to beat them. You think thats democratic? You think thats not takong away the peoples choice? I think you probably have a tenuous grasp on reality if you believe that... 😂

[@66Pipes66]

They closed ranks because they know the French would vote out of the eu given the chance.

[@duolingo0552]

National Rally is pro EU membership, and has been since the 2017 election

[@stephenjon3502]

After seeing how it’s gone for the UK no chance.

[@111111hakar]

@@stephenjon3502 Its exposed how much the uniparty disdains the British public and the need to get them gone, the conservative party has been irreparably damaged by their actions and with the majority Labour hold they will have nowhere to hide. Come 2029 both the major parties will be in the worst state they've ever been in and I'm here for it.

[@icychipz2000]

@@111111hakar By the time the fight shall be between #Sharia4UK party and Reform. Londonistan is not far away :)

[@Cruzeoc.101]

The French LOVE being part of the EU. That's why they REJECTED Le Pen. Now learn to deal with it. You melt.

[@slowerthansound]

'How France derailed Democracy' might be a more descriptive title.

[@notyourordinarygran]

No they didn't....the left were simply tactical in their bid to defend their country against fascists. It was the choice of the people through the ballot box...that, my friend, is democracy.

[@icychipz2000]

Fully agree. France has fallen. Now we shall soon see #Sharia4France and #Sharia4UK parties take control of either side of the pond

[@CarlosOddone-z6k]

How 1/2 of the population of any country can be " far right " ? Read Orwell about ontrolling language by totalitarians ...

[@nota77thbot48]

​@peterholden3672joe mamma.

[@steveinskip4897]

The majority of French voted to repel LePen. That is democracy at work.

[@voice.of.reason]

Just like the Tories, the Times has forgotten what normal conservatism is and calls it far right

[@bertiescunsbutch9323]

They are bourgeois Pinkos.

[@bergssprangare]

20 million mudslim immigrants on their way to UK and France..

[@DisemboweII]

They also mistake lack of votes as a "swing" towards the left... the same way Labour "won" despite getting 500,000 less votes than the last election, the true message is that an alarming amount of people that consider themselves central or right wing have given up and not bothered voting.

[@Cruzeoc.101]

La Pen were far right and now the French government are going after their Russian funding and will CLOSE THEM DOWN.

[@nicoedel5606]

Le Pen and her party are far right

[@lennyh500]

Far right. Anyone to the right of Stalin.

[@gemlouise1260]

Interesting that no matter how much destruction is caused by the far left, they're always referred to as just the left, while the right, no matter how little destruction they cause, are always referred to as 'far'

[@netweed09]

As opposed to which other extreme person?

[@Kriegsman1119]

@@netweed09 he also was on the left

[@netweed09]

@@Kriegsman1119 Who?

[@Lorgar64]

​@@netweed09Moustache man.

[@stevehowell231]

Rejected Democracy more like.

[@notyourordinarygran]

The people voted, they rejected the far right....get over it. Come back and try again next time....that, my friend, is democracy. Most of us only have 2 parties to vote for.

[@TomsRandomTat]

Women don't have penis's ​@@notyourordinarygran

[@Cruzeoc.101]

What part of people voting and rejecting the radical right racists don'tr you understand. That's called democracy in action. YOU MELT.

[@MrRevolutionMars]

@@notyourordinarygran @samsby14 há 7 horas ​ @notyourordinarygran only 33% Yes ONE PARTY got 33% 1/3rd of the entire population while 4 parties had to band together to beat them. You think thats democratic? You think thats not takong away the peoples choice? I think you probably have a tenuous grasp on reality if you believe that...

[@bonglandgreg]

80% of the population didn't vote for starmer, that doesn't sound like a win to me......

[@bardsamok9221]

Wrong country. That's the UK, and FYI starmer won a large landslide victory.

[@spearmint47]

​@bardsamok9221 that's great. Come back in 5 yrs time and see if you can still whoopee and slobber at the feet of Starmer

[@ExplorewithSarahlouise]

@@bardsamok9221he got like 15/20’percent of the vote really but we have let you get on with it we are not burning London down and flying blimps of him over Parliament. I think we might push to reform the voting system now tho

[@The_Stranger1986]

​@@bardsamok9221 A landslide victory? 😂

[@jamesroberts5667]

@@bardsamok9221😂😂😂😂 really

[@StinkingBishop]

Far Left.

[@bardsamok9221]

It's not likely France Unbowed will be part of the coalition. Probably centrists, plus left and right. LFI not required to be there for the numbers

[@michaeldoolan7595]

Far right, my derrier.

[@stevendurrant1724]

To scoff at the idea that a party with roots in collaboration with actual Nazis can be called ‘far right’ says way more about you than them.

[@jake751]

Faciasts

[@cameronmcleod8419]

A party founded by a self avowed national socialist isn't far right? What's to the right of it, 1300s Feudalism?

[@fazertace6837]

@@jake751you can’t even spell the word “facist” correctly. No wonder MOST people despise individuals like you.

[@gkappa4085]

Exactly...cal them by the name that makes them proud : fascists

[@SeeLasSee]

Years of instability are most likely ahead. Big time.

[@jake751]

Cry more 😂

[@coolhand1966]

@@jake751 they're not wrong

[@SeeLasSee]

@@jake751 cry for the French being French?

[@davidrenton]

@@jake751 hahah Le pen has already won, the left 2 dopey to work that one out

[@NightimeInDeepSpace]

@@coolhand1966 They reply with the same inane cry comments. It's like they're foreshadowing their future

[@jackspring7709]

"How France's FAR LEFT stopped a populist surge". I've fixed your title for you. Btw - they didn't stop it and it'll be interesting to watch them all turn on each other, giving LePen's party more support with sane voters.

[@bardsamok9221]

Certainly if the sane wanted le pen she would have won. The lesser evil prevailed.

[@Cruzeoc.101]

Radical Right FLOPPED almost as bad as Reform in the UK.

[@rosihantu1]

Far left stopped the normal right

[@mus139]

Leftism is a cancer which is destroying cities and countries.

[@bertibear1300]

Far left stooped right surge That’s the correct way to say it Wookiee.

[@Cruzeoc.101]

Same old Russian YAP.

[@ChristineRead-ck1uq]

@@Cruzeoc.101 Oh, here we go again. You don't agree with me so you must be Russian. Same utterly pathetic comment.

[@jbstarkiller4626]

@@Cruzeoc.101Why do you have an unhealthy and irrational fear of Russia?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@drsamuelbeckett2998]

​@@Cruzeoc.101What is Russian yap? I'm genuinely interested in your thoughts?

[@Cruzeoc.101]

@@drsamuelbeckett2998 The Russians are funding the YAP. farm.

[@larrydugan1441]

Protecting your way of life and culture is not far right.

[@Lisey1]

We are in a globalised world, where we care depend on each other and for humanity not self-preservation, but human preservation. Rn is racist, they want to divide the nation.

[@_Too_Late]

@@Lisey1 Do black and brown nations 'care' for anyone? Then when your country becomes black & brown who will it be 'caring' for?

[@bardsamok9221]

It would have been an economic disaster and weakened their geostrategic position. That's not protecting France.

[@larrydugan1441]

@@bardsamok9221 I don't really know what will happen. I do know that people proud of their culture are not happy with the direction. You can only frustrate people for so long before it all blows up in your face. The left in France and the EU bureaucrats will continue on their path until it is a tinder box. Good luck. I loved Europe the way it was in the 70s when I lived there. I have seen no improvements.

[@ChristineRead-ck1uq]

@@bardsamok9221 You do not know that at all. Macron is a Schwab protegee and all he has ever done is follow Klaus & Co's orders. Just as Castro/Trudeau is doing in Canada and as Aherne was doing in NZ till they had the sense to throw her out. The Indian/Irish Teashop is another one of Schwab's protegees and it shows. I dare say Sunak is a follower too. There's plenty of evidence to suggest it. The left in the Netherlands tried the same trick as Macron but failed thankfully and now we have Starmer in the UK who said not so long ago that he preferred Davos to Westminster.

[@JoTokutora]

Can you define "Far Right"? What are its attributes?

[@londonhodnet4079]

Goodbye France, you were once great

[@alidawson6118]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@daad3595]

French people hate the fashists look how they stopped them from taking and relegated them to bottom division

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

Please stop calling her "far right" - she is anything but that. She has disowned her father's legacy, backtracked on things like getting France out of NATO, EU and the Euro.

[@motoartdesign]

France has chosen anarchy, they’ll happily elect Le Pen next time to stop the carnage 😂

[@stevendurrant1724]

Not surprising that some who finds the prospect of fascism to be funny also doesn’t understand what anarchy is.

[@peteratkin3788]

You know she Russian (Kremlin) backed, and Russia want to dismember the west, exactly how will she stop the carnage, that's in the Kremlin / China and several others interest.

[@marcellogenesi6390]

That was not democracy, that was a conspiracy to deny the majority of voters their voting right, they will regret it.

[@tom4381]

​@@stevendurrant1724Bit rich coming from someone who doesn't understand what fascism is.

[@boink800]

@@tom4381 Fascism? Le Pen

[@Madoldcatlady]

Just look at the image on this podcast. Just look at the people standing on this beautiful French monument, destroyed by graffiti, waving the national flags of their respective foreign countries. This is why Marine LePen Will win the G.E. in 2027.

[@commandingjudgedredd1841]

Don't think they will have until 2027.

[@netweed09]

Well stop destroying other countries then.

[@mrlegkick91]

It's disgusting. Our once great European nations are being defiled.

[@marietaylor2219]

@marietaylor2219 0 seconds ago I suppose it was ok when these “ “foreign countries” were being colonised; exploited & destroyed centuries ago. Now you talk about these people as if they are dirt. I bet back then those brutal greedy colonisers never thought “reverse colonialism” would be a real problem today did they

[@peterj2518]

Isn't it "far left"?

[@bardsamok9221]

No. An alliance of parties won, centrists, some moderate , some far left, etc. When the coalition forms it's likely the hard left will be dropped so Melenchon won't be PM. There's not enough support for a far left PM The coalition will be pretty mixed.

[@bardsamok9221]

No it's a mix of parties

[@peterj2518]

​@@bardsamok9221not really. All those parties (perhaps) aside from the socialists are correctly referred to as "far left". It is ridiculous to describe a party that gets 38% of the vote "far right" by the way. And on this basis it is odd that the corresponding left bloc is not similarly categorised unless there is a specific political bias behind it...

[@springwood1331]

The loony far left is not solution to anything

[@alanmarr3323]

Better than the loony Right wing led by someone whoe father was a torturer !

[@jake751]

Faciasts lost 😂😂😂

[@janebaker966]

Oy vey

[@springwood1331]

@jake 'politicians' with student union level economic policies aren't much better.

[@luciusesox1luckysox570]

@@jake751 Err no... I think you will find they won mate. The far left are the fascists.

[@miasewell1958]

They are NOT FAR Right. Why not be honest in your reporting

[@rolandhawken6628]

they are if your far left lol

[@margaretewallner2169]

Propaganda branding... in order to enable people to investigate themselves.... easier to have discouraged dump sheep to lead, where you want them ...

[@old_seadog]

In a nutshell, the People's Front of Judea would rather ally themselves with the Judean People's Front than see the far right Popular Front get in. I'm Brian, and so's my wife.

[@annabizaro-doo-dah]

😂😂

[@pierrewave7235]

What has nationalism ever done for us?

[@commandingjudgedredd1841]

How's Pilate these days? Has he still got a vewy vewy bad speech impediment? How... Cwazy is that?

[@old_seadog]

@@commandingjudgedredd1841 He has a gweat fwiend in Wome you know.

[@Liz-ek3hc]

Monty Python will live forever lol! ❤😍 Love your humour, the best era ever! 👏👏👏

[@willfox1037]

Now the French military knows for sure that there is no democratic path out of national destruction. Bon chance!

[@garypowell1540]

Oh dear France really is in trouble now. Our owners can't keep kicking this down the road a day of reconning is fast approaching and needs to come sooner rather than later. The more they put off the reaction the more terrifying and destructive it will be.

[@DextraVisual]

I'm left of centre but even I can see they are building a rightwing monster by endlessly ignoring the views of right leaning citizens. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction and this is not good. Same in the UK. The left is actively building the support of the right and they can't see it.

[@deedee-tc4fh]

We Got 5 Years

[@swaldron5558]

Very sad for France

[@RC_Zak]

They aren't "Far Right" they are just "Right"

[@delhansen2579]

It’s the far left that pose the danger branding centre right as far right

[@bardsamok9221]

"danger" 😂 Calm down. No need for hysteria

[@ce5890]

The final nail in Europes coffin

[@ulliburwood4706]

Melanchon is the worst outcome

[@jake751]

😂😂😂

[@MayorSom]

COPE! hahahaha

[@davidrenton]

@@MayorSom you know he is Anti EU, Anti NATO, Pro Putin, it's so funny

[@MayorSom]

@@davidrenton And I love it! Saying No to the Globalist cabal. You can't be against immigrants and refugee, then be pro NATIO & EU. Both whom are the primary reasons that people are seeking refuge from their death, destruction and chaos.

[@mogznwaz]

He’s a lunatic

[@paullegend6798]

It's a hung parliament. How did the right lose? Notice I said "right" not "far right" (a phrase so over-used it now has no meaning).

[@stellifriends7785]

i feel increasingly sceptical when i hear the term 'far right'; it seems anything not actually 'left' is now branded 'far right'.

[@AlexLaw-m3r]

On that day, the Palestinian flag was flying above the French flag. This is how France fell. A nation's election should be about the country itself, not about another country

[@kevinjones3900]

How the far left stopped the far right. Sorry i mean the extreme left stopped the far right

[@ShallowDepression]

There is no far-right.

[@gemlouise1260]

they constantly make assertions about far right terror and violence, how come we never actually see it, but we're constantly seeing the left doing all the things they accuse this mythical far right of doing.

[@bardsamok9221]

Why are people obsessing over the word far? The coalition will be mainly moderate left and centrists making policy and being PM

[@Flight-of-Life]

Because Macaroni is owned by China, and they had the final say. 😂

[@Cruzeoc.101]

Tinfoil hat gang.

[@marumaru6084]

Yet the Front National vote was up!

[@unlikeable8619]

It wasn't just up, they got the much more votes than any of the other parties.

[@fazertace6837]

The Times. A readership of ex boarding school toast racks and desert orchid resembling women.

[@jabbadabbajew6035]

They gamed the system.

[@adenwellsmith6908]

They still lost seats. What happens now? No budget - 5% deficit, massive EU fines incoming.

[@danielslubski1028]

it will just bring Le pen to the elizee

[@Cruzeoc.101]

She's going to jail for breaking sanctions excepting Russian money

[@johncollins3391]

Denying the inevitable will make the inevitable even more damaging than it need be,they will regret whats just happened.

[@BennyMcGibbon]

Can't think of a country more brutalized by the current status quo.

[@KP-yq8id]

Boring! I have been seeing these same headlines since I was 15. Same happens every time. With her own dad, no less!

[@fahmad7194]

By voting against the far right. How else could the voters make the far right lose 🙄

[@tonyclifton303]

Every right wing party is called far right, not once ever have I seen a headline about the far left, and there is plenty of far left parties out there, and far left people just be fair, that's all people want

[@LennonZA]

The media treats us as if we don't have eyes and ears, lol

[@elkedemeersman4997]

When a politician is talking about normal issues, and give it a name and tell the true story, its far right...

[@E_Rex_Sean]

To put it simple; some votes matter more than others.

[@bardsamok9221]

Welcome to democracy

[@guillermodominguezdelafuen2730]

Crazy how France has just failed TWICE in half a week

[@netweed09]

? They've already won 2 World Cups using mostly the type of people these people support and that you can't tolerate. Make it make sense. 🎉

[@guillermodominguezdelafuen2730]

@@netweed09 I don’t remember France using rapists, murderers and criminals imported from North Africa to win any football match, can you name me one?

[@guillermodominguezdelafuen2730]

@@netweed09 Can you name one of these people you say I can’t tolerate?

[@bardsamok9221]

​@@guillermodominguezdelafuen2730those on the left apparently

[@guillermodominguezdelafuen2730]

@@bardsamok9221 Which left?

[@somthingbrutal]

because enough of them remeber what their grandparents told them about life under the last fascist government. Never Again isn't just about the concentration camps

[@keithapps]

The French suffered under the Jackboot of the Nazi's in the 1940's, why would they want to repeat the same fate in 2024.

[@Lala-kc2fw]

Commies now...

[@keithapps]

Most left wing supporters are not communists just as most right wing supporters are not fascists.

[@Lala-kc2fw]

@@keithapps "French communist Party" and a far left fanatic populist. That's just dangerous ye I get you

[@TDMoore]

Glad to see France standing up and putting nation ahead. If the Right had won it would have eroded support for Ukraine. And France is one of the nations that can really take the lead.

[@androzani7]

They actually did better than any other party: RN got 10.1 million votes, the Left bloc 7 million, and Macron's centrists 6.6 million - just unfortunately not in constituencies where it mattered to change the outcome

[@C.kelp1879]

You mean the Extreme Left and the Conservative Right.

[@alanabowker1363]

Just stop using the word 'communist' we know it's the smug way of saying monsters.,

[@simonfenn432]

Simple fact: in the second round Mélenchon’s Left Alliance lost 2.4% in vote share while RN’s share increased by 3.8%. Whatever your views on the policies of the various factions, that is what happened. In the UK election Reform achieved 14% of the vote and got 5 seats.

[@roannamowbray3802]

RIP FRANCE!

[@markmierzejewski9534]

Right wing governments always fail. Never any reason not to be centrist / pragmatic.

[@karyne826]

RIP England too 😢

[@MamanPotentielleTLubangu]

@@karyne826 NO ENGLAND HAS RISEN BECAUSE THE LABOUR ARE BACK IN POWER 💪

[@ftdecastrolondon]

France is a true democracy and the UK as well. Very different from Italy , Hungary, Russia, China and most of the World.

[@onenote6619]

It at least shows that sensible people will band together and stop arguing when the alternative is disaster. That's not much, but better than the alternative.

[@thisandthat1265]

The right has lost nothing.... France has lost...

[@michaelmoran1964]

The Right might have lost,but their views are still there.

[@dex9789]

They lost because of the groups people always seem to call the "Minority".

[@daniels1263]

It’s always just “left” and then “far right”

[@Cruzeoc.101]

At least 500 bot farm accounts saying the same "Far Left" YAP YAP in this comment section. Come on Times radio. Get a grip of your comment section.

[@tonyclifton303]

bot? no, just people who are fed up with the nonsense that media spews, when have you ever seen a headline about the far left? because there is plenty of far left people and political parties out there, surely one should've popped up by now, i've never seen one

[@mattlebutter9162]

By the way, claiming that someone illegally in France, already arrested 25 times and asked to leave formally, should be deported, is NOT the definition of "far right".

[@davidrowley9513]

It seems evil is everywhere.

[@pagangod_Infinité]

Marine's RN, i assume, has won the largest number of votes & RN party individually(without alliance) have won the largest number of 125 MP seats

[@boink800]

@@pagangod_Infinité You got that count totally wrong

[@pagangod_Infinité]

@boink800 So could you enlighten us with the total MP seats RN alone won ?

[@boink800]

@@pagangod_Infinité Look up the results. Hint: they are the third largest faction in the AN

[@pagangod_Infinité]

@@boink800 Do you understand English & can you do basic number counting 😃 . Looks like you have very low IQ. The Rally National(Marine's party) without alliance/bloc is the single largest individual political party with 125 MP SEATS in FRENCH PARLIAMENT 2024 😃 NEW POPULAR FRONT bloc(180 seats) LFI/France Unbowed =74 PS/Socialist Party = 59 LE/Greens = 28 PCF = 9 Génération.s = 5 Miscellaneous Left = 5 Regionalists = 2 ENSEMBLE (ENS) bloc (159 seats) Renaissance = 102 MoDem = 33 Horizons = 26 Miscellaneous centre = 3 UDI = 2 Miscellaneous right = 1 Miscellaneous right Agir = 1 RALLY NATIONAL/UXD bloc(142 seats) National Rally = 125 UXD = 17 LE Republican (39 seats)

[@Benzknees]

Funny how it's always "far right" and never "far left", even though they have more similarities than differences.

[@jaynemcfarland3678]

You rep what you sow Macron

[@Lisey1]

Is Le Pen and bardella the true face and the value of the French? That would be disastrous for humanity if she had won. We need to be better human beings. Hatred should never be valiant. Well done, the people of france for choosing the right side . History will remember you.

[@ijm1963]

So the far left won.

[@ExplorewithSarahlouise]

I mean they lost because the others tricked the system to be fair lol

[@gandydancer9710]

I guess Farage was "stopped" too, since Reform didn't get a lot of seats. But it got to a massive vote from nowhere and the Conservative party may be mortally wounded so spinning it as a loss takes a lot of spinning. Same for LePen, whose vote massively increased. Saying a surge has been stopped when it is actually making so much progress is blatant gaslighting.

[@Jayh857]

The fact that le pen had 10 mil votes but yet macron and the left had 7 mil, must of been using the US voting system 😂😂😂😂

[@MrCameronian]

The narrator should be on CBEEBIES, utterly pitiful production.

[@fredmercury1314]

_There you go again with that "far-right" BS._

[@user-lv2fn4so1h]

Undemocratic. The French were voting for change and got stiffed.

[@jono_young_music]

It warms my heart when France stand up in mass, for what they believe in.

[@StratsRUs]

Why the Nazis lost.

[@SirBrasstion]

How France’s far-left stopped a right surge | The Story Fixed it for you.

[@petercotterill5105]

I flippin' love the Comments! Where the jounalism of realism abides

[@gsg9205]

The Right haven't lost!!

[@shelleyscloud3651]

Or put differently, how the biggest kid on the playground ´lost’ when a handful of bullies conspired to jump him from behind….

[@loonaticsrunningtheassylum]

Because politics and voting is theatre.. the cabal put who they want where they want

[@ozzy8286]

It's a shame but France is gone. Would really liked to have visited some time , but no more.

[@cechzc2e]

The Times is the new Daily Sun.....how embarrassing

[@bobbymozza]

Unsurprising for a country which eats slugs.

[@TheJon2442]

As Joe Stalin said, it's not the vote, it's who does the counting!

[@johnrawlins6147]

The west is doomed

[@SLonxxxx]

"what now for French politics?" you say. Student Marxism by the looks of it. Good luck with that. 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@cocopots]

" how far left lead to a split vote" would perhaps be more accurate

[@Cruzeoc.101]

The left DESTROYED the racist right.

[@okayeg_eg836]

you mean far-left.

[@HolbeachTiger]

you forgot it was the extreme left....not just the left

[@simonwilton3546]

Hmmn, seems an abuse of democracy to me.

[@E_Rex_Sean]

They had a tantrum in Paris.

[@RevRMBWest]

The far right?

[@barriewilliams4526]

The will of the people once more evaded, just like here with Reform. The time will come however for the right people to get their way.

[@rogerconnolly3688]

The far left stopped the centre right