How France’s left stopped a far-right surge

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Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@richardpadden Ай бұрын

@@haleffect9011. 33.7%

@notyourordinarygran Ай бұрын

@@3RJSMFCBOT. RUSSIANS ARE WAR CRIMINALS

@notyourordinarygran Ай бұрын

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

@shropsiberian Ай бұрын

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

@netweed09 Ай бұрын

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

@elib9002 Ай бұрын

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

@netweed09 Ай бұрын

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

@Elfling26 Ай бұрын

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

@Madoldcatlady Ай бұрын

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

@netweed09 Ай бұрын

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

@Lorgar64 Ай бұрын

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

@bergssprangare Ай бұрын

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

@MrDaiseymay Ай бұрын

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

@alee_enn Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

😂😂 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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@samsby14 Ай бұрын

@@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... 😂

@stevehowell231 Ай бұрын

Rejected Democracy more like.

@notyourordinarygran Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

Women don't have penis's @@notyourordinarygran

@Kursk_Is_Nova_Ukraina Ай бұрын

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

@user-lb1ye1pv4q Ай бұрын

@@notyourordinarygran No, the far left banded together with the extreme far left to steal the election away from the people's choice, the right. At least know what the F you are talking about.

@MrRevolutionMars Ай бұрын

@@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...

@slowerthansound Ай бұрын

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

@notyourordinarygran Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@user-bm8uw8oj4k Ай бұрын

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

@nota77thbot48 Ай бұрын

@peterholden3672joe mamma.

@steveinskip4897 Ай бұрын

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

@66Pipes66 Ай бұрын

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

@duolingo0552 Ай бұрын

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

@stephenjon3502 Ай бұрын

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

@111111hakar Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

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

@Kursk_Is_Nova_Ukraina Ай бұрын

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

@SeeLasSee Ай бұрын

Years of instability are most likely ahead. Big time.

@jake751 Ай бұрын

Cry more 😂

@coolhand1966 Ай бұрын

@@jake751 they're not wrong

@SeeLasSee Ай бұрын

@@jake751 cry for the French being French?

@davidrenton Ай бұрын

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

@NightimeInDeepSpace Ай бұрын

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

@jackspring7709 Ай бұрын

"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 Ай бұрын

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

@Kursk_Is_Nova_Ukraina Ай бұрын

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

@michaeldoolan7595 Ай бұрын

Far right, my derrier.

@stevendurrant1724 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

Faciasts

@cameronmcleod8419 Ай бұрын

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

@fazertace6837 Ай бұрын

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

@gkappa4085 Ай бұрын

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

@lennyh500 Ай бұрын

Far right. Anyone to the right of Stalin.

@gemlouise1260 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

As opposed to which other extreme person?

@Kriegsman1119 Ай бұрын

@@netweed09 he also was on the left

@netweed09 Ай бұрын

@@Kriegsman1119 Who?

@Lorgar64 Ай бұрын

@@netweed09Moustache man.

@StinkingBishop Ай бұрын

Far Left.

@bardsamok9221 Ай бұрын

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

@voice.of.reason Ай бұрын

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

@bertiescunsbutch9323 Ай бұрын

They are bourgeois Pinkos.

@bergssprangare Ай бұрын

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

@ChainsawGutsFuck Ай бұрын

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.

@Kursk_Is_Nova_Ukraina Ай бұрын

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

@nicoedel5606 Ай бұрын

Le Pen and her party are far right

@rosihantu1 Ай бұрын

Far left stopped the normal right

@mus139 Ай бұрын

Leftism is a cancer which is destroying cities and countries.

@larrydugan1441 Ай бұрын

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

@Lisey1 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@bardsamok9221 Ай бұрын

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

@larrydugan1441 Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

@@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.

@bertibear1300 Ай бұрын

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

@Kursk_Is_Nova_Ukraina Ай бұрын

Same old Russian YAP.

@ChristineRead-ck1uq Ай бұрын

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

@jbstarkiller4626 Ай бұрын

@@Kursk_Is_Nova_UkrainaWhy do you have an unhealthy and irrational fear of Russia?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@drsamuelbeckett2998 Ай бұрын

@@Kursk_Is_Nova_UkrainaWhat is Russian yap? I'm genuinely interested in your thoughts?

@Kursk_Is_Nova_Ukraina Ай бұрын

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

@londonhodnet4079 Ай бұрын

Goodbye France, you were once great

@alidawson6118 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@daad3595 Ай бұрын

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

@bonglandgreg Ай бұрын

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

@bardsamok9221 Ай бұрын

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

@spearmint47 Ай бұрын

@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 Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

@@bardsamok9221 A landslide victory? 😂

@jamesroberts5667 Ай бұрын

@@bardsamok9221😂😂😂😂 really

@JoTokutora Ай бұрын

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

@motoartdesign Ай бұрын

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

@stevendurrant1724 Ай бұрын

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

@peteratkin3788 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@tom4381 Ай бұрын

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

@boink800 Ай бұрын

@@tom4381 Fascism? Le Pen

@peterj2518 Ай бұрын

Isn't it "far left"?

@bardsamok9221 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

No it's a mix of parties

@peterj2518 Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

The loony far left is not solution to anything

@alanmarr3323 Ай бұрын

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

@jake751 Ай бұрын

Faciasts lost 😂😂😂

@janebaker966 Ай бұрын

Oy vey

@springwood1331 Ай бұрын

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

@luciusesox1luckysox570 Ай бұрын

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

@delhansen2579 Ай бұрын

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

@bardsamok9221 Ай бұрын

"danger" 😂 Calm down. No need for hysteria

@Madoldcatlady Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

Don't think they will have until 2027.

@netweed09 Ай бұрын

Well stop destroying other countries then.

@mrlegkick91 Ай бұрын

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

@marietaylor2219 Ай бұрын

@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

@miasewell1958 Ай бұрын

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

@rolandhawken6628 Ай бұрын

they are if your far left lol

@margaretewallner2169 Ай бұрын

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

@alphabetaxenonzzzcat Ай бұрын

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.

@RC_Zak Ай бұрын

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

@garypowell1540 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

We Got 5 Years

@swaldron5558 Ай бұрын

Very sad for France

@marumaru6084 Ай бұрын

Yet the Front National vote was up!

@unlikeable8619 Ай бұрын

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

@ulliburwood4706 Ай бұрын

Melanchon is the worst outcome

@jake751 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@MayorSom Ай бұрын

COPE! hahahaha

@davidrenton Ай бұрын

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

@MayorSom Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

He’s a lunatic

@old_seadog Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

😂😂

@pierrewave7235 Ай бұрын

What has nationalism ever done for us?

@commandingjudgedredd1841 Ай бұрын

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

@old_seadog Ай бұрын

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

@Liz-ek3hc Ай бұрын

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

@willfox1037 Ай бұрын

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

@ce5890 Ай бұрын

The final nail in Europes coffin

@fireman3857 Ай бұрын

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

@Kursk_Is_Nova_Ukraina Ай бұрын

Tinfoil hat gang.

@paullegend6798 Ай бұрын

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).

@jabbadabbajew6035 Ай бұрын

They gamed the system.

@adenwellsmith6908 Ай бұрын

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

@stellifriends7785 Ай бұрын

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

@fazertace6837 Ай бұрын

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

@danielslubski1028 Ай бұрын

it will just bring Le pen to the elizee

@Kursk_Is_Nova_Ukraina Ай бұрын

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

@tonyclifton303 Ай бұрын

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

@kevinjones3900 Ай бұрын

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

@ShallowDepression Ай бұрын

There is no far-right.

@gemlouise1260 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@fahmad7194 Ай бұрын

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

@BennyMcGibbon Ай бұрын

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

@AlexLaw-m3r Ай бұрын

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

@LennonZA Ай бұрын

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

@E_Rex_Sean Ай бұрын

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

@bardsamok9221 Ай бұрын

Welcome to democracy

@johncollins3391 Ай бұрын

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

@C.kelp1879 Ай бұрын

You mean the Extreme Left and the Conservative Right.

@KP-yq8id Ай бұрын

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

@somthingbrutal Ай бұрын

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

@elkedemeersman4997 Ай бұрын

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

@androzani7 Ай бұрын

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

@roannamowbray3802 Ай бұрын

RIP FRANCE!

@markmierzejewski9534 Ай бұрын

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

@karyne826 Ай бұрын

RIP England too 😢

@MamanPotentielleTLubangu Ай бұрын

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

@Suckeggs-q5m Ай бұрын

NOT the Far right just PATRIOTS

@user-jc4lb5mm7x Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

Commies now...

@user-jc4lb5mm7x Ай бұрын

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

@Lala-kc2fw Ай бұрын

@@user-jc4lb5mm7x "French communist Party" and a far left fanatic populist. That's just dangerous ye I get you

@michaelmoran1964 Ай бұрын

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

@thisandthat1265 Ай бұрын

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

@alanabowker1363 Ай бұрын

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

@TDMoore Ай бұрын

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.

@Kursk_Is_Nova_Ukraina Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@jaynemcfarland3678 Ай бұрын

You rep what you sow Macron

@dex9789 Ай бұрын

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

@ftdecastrolondon Ай бұрын

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

@guillermodominguezdelafuen2730 Ай бұрын

Crazy how France has just failed TWICE in half a week

@netweed09 Ай бұрын

? 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 Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

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

@bardsamok9221 Ай бұрын

@@guillermodominguezdelafuen2730those on the left apparently

@guillermodominguezdelafuen2730 Ай бұрын

@@bardsamok9221 Which left?

@simonfenn432 Ай бұрын

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.

@daniels1263 Ай бұрын

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

@onenote6619 Ай бұрын

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.

@pagangod_Infinity Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

@@pagangod_Infinity You got that count totally wrong

@pagangod_Infinity Ай бұрын

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

@boink800 Ай бұрын

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

@pagangod_Infinity Ай бұрын

@@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)

@davidrowley9513 Ай бұрын

It seems evil is everywhere.

@StratsRUs Ай бұрын

Why the Nazis lost.

@mattlebutter9162 Ай бұрын

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".

@fredmercury1314 Ай бұрын

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

@cechzc2e Ай бұрын

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

@johnrawlins6147 Ай бұрын

The west is doomed

@ExplorewithSarahlouise Ай бұрын

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

@user-lv2fn4so1h Ай бұрын

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

@gsg9205 Ай бұрын

The Right haven't lost!!

@MrCameronian Ай бұрын

The narrator should be on CBEEBIES, utterly pitiful production.

@SCMcDonLon Ай бұрын

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

@loonaticsrunningtheassylum Ай бұрын

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

@Benzknees Ай бұрын

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

@okayeg_eg836 Ай бұрын

you mean far-left.

@gandydancer9710 Ай бұрын

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.

@Lisey1 Ай бұрын

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.

@s0ycapitan Ай бұрын

Pretty simple - it was a stitch up.. It seems that French "proportional" representation is just as flawed as first past the post if the other parties game the system by selectively withdrawing candidates.

@josephnye3088 Ай бұрын

Cope. Parties uniting against you to avoid vote splitting is the nature of an extreme party and not even close to being shady. The entitlement to think that anything other than your side winning must be a stich up is breathtaking. The French people voted against the RN, get over it.

@s0ycapitan Ай бұрын

@@josephnye3088 But they didn't, did they? RN got the most votes 37%. More than Labour got here.

@boink800 Ай бұрын

@@s0ycapitan The far-right lost yet again. Deal with it. Ha ha 😂 🤣 😆 😄

@s0ycapitan Ай бұрын

@@boink800 The Commies subverted democracy again you mean.

@therichardbatt Ай бұрын

@@s0ycapitanthe centrist and left coalitions didn't stand in all seats as left/centrist candidates stood down in over 150 seats where there were three way run offs. So their vote share would always be lower than RN who had candidates in most, if not all, run offs. So the national vote share doesn't really explain what people voted for. It just explains what they voted against.