France's Insane Election Results Explained

[@user-bk7to8gn5l]

I'd hate to be a Peugeot parked in Paris this week

[@T.A.-]

No strikes yet. No parties want to loose vote by creating chaos in the capital. It is surprisingly confortable. We should have some election more often 😂😂

[@ARSR]

​@@T.A.- just for the final results and you'll see 😂

[@T.A.-]

@@ARSR that’s why I said yet haha. There will be chaos

[@BarrenBones-t2h]

lmfao

[@slovenianwotgeekerfromslov3563]

more like i'd hate to be a Peugeot in general

[@inaworldfulloftrashbagsbet2023]

The fact that Macron, the youngest french president of tye 5the republic, has his party to be the most popular only among french people aged above 75 years is so funny for me for some reason. I guess his bougie ways didn't appeal to the youth

[@desichalkos5627]

He isn't called the president of the rich for no reason.

[@Por-poI]

Having an older wife reveals he's more in line in tastes with the generation before him than his own lmao

[@johanneskarlsson3859]

The reverse Berni Sanders.

[@apz202]

because they already have their retirement so he can't take that away.

[@Bruteforce765]

He serves the pensioneer class

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[@davidjma7226]

Whatever happens, the French will be on the streets breaking some serious glass!

[@trolleurdurden5534]

It's kind of a tradition here.

[@iljagaimovic9166]

Well mostly they are not French 😂

[@little_dandelion]

And the MSM and establishment will keep blaming it on the "far-right".

[@Fluxwux]

@@iljagaimovic9166Um… what are you talking about? French people regardless of ethnicity has rioted against their government and rulers since the French Revolution up to the more recent violent yellow vests and farmer protests. It’s very much a sacred tradition and part of French culture just as strong as baguettes, wine and having mistresses 😅

[@ChrisCrossClash]

They are already doing it, what is it with the French and protests, i mean my word..... 😂

[@PotionSeller721]

Imagine being a glass manufacturer or car insurance company in France right now...

[@RankinMsP]

It's boring

[@diegodelbustocollina7714]

Here comes the moneyyy🎶

[@yaush_]

💶💶💶🤑

[@jakubjohnson6741]

Insurance may or may not cover for riot it depends on what type of coverage your talking about and how good your policy is.

[@PotionSeller721]

@@jakubjohnson6741 All the better for the Insurance companies. They get to raise their rates without actually paying out much.

[@sodog44]

Considering how crazy things are in France these days, both internally and internationally, this is probably more a sign of how sick people are of centrists.

[@etienne8110]

Macron and lepen are the same. So i wonder if they are really that fed up...

[@CptMark]

@@etienne8110 So, Le Pen is now a centrist? This keeps getting wilder! :)

[@artiefakt4402]

@@CptMark Far right lovers are now saying everywhere that there's no such thing as "far right"... they pretend it's just good ol' "right"

[@DanJuega]

​@@CptMark I think he's referencinh to how Macron moved to the right

[@soundscape26]

So they prefer the extremes? That's hardly a recipe for success.

[@TheAndyCraven]

What the French call a "Menage a Trois" is what I was hoping he'sd say! lol

[@hukama6911]

Carnage a trois... thats a grand tour special

[@french907]

Carnage a trois excellent😂😂😂​@@hukama6911

[@caramelitoalegre]

Missed the golden chance

[@jjt1881]

Bravo for saying your only french words!

[@jjt1881]

@Booz2020 I suppose that's Le Penn

[@yadusolparterre]

The results are not insane, what is insane is that some people see this as a surprise after 50 years of terrible handling. That's like being upset that it rains on a cloudy day.

[@gijane2cantwaittoseeyou203]

Terrible handling doesnt make you a great power. It's the far right media that caused all this and everyone just watched them brainwash people and lie. It's much worse than Fox News

[@Benjamin1986980]

I have to say it's actually completely expected for the rise of a third party. The only thing unusual is that most of the time in a 2-party system, a third party that gets this big ends up getting absorbed into one of the main parties. Like America's Greens with the Democrats and the Republicans with the Libertarians.

[@euboss219]

Loooool! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@zergling6802]

Lol, people all around the globe are all voting for right-extremists, and no one seems to notice how fucked the next decades are going to be for humanity. I guess history doesn't teach you anything

[@TR4R]

That's called oligarchy. The people are sick of it. And immigration too. But I seriously doubt that an extremist right wing government will fix the situation. In the best case scenario they'll have some restoration of order but only at the expense of making the middle class even poorer as the oligarchs concentrate even more power.

[@theJACKATIC]

Nothing insane about that result, completely expected

[@jairkerker2821]

I think that the strategic ignorance behind the use of the word "insane" is exactly the reason for the result. These are the same kind of people who pretend to be surprised by Biden's appearance in the first debate.

[@Redskies453]

But..but..far right! It's the far right sound the alarms! I've seen reputable news sources drawing parallels with the occupying Nazi administration 😂

[@The_Midnight_Bear]

I think he's talking about having so many triangles.

[@patavinity1262]

You seem to be suggesting that what is insane cannot be expected, which is clearly not the case.

[@jairkerker2821]

@@patavinity1262 Insanity and predictability are mutually exclusive. The top commenter means that his expectation was based on logical, observable factors. In the context of the use, insanity either implies that no one saw it coming, or that the expectations were greatly surpassed, neither of which is true.

[@thebeanstalker631]

The French did not suddenly get racist. Any honest person has to admit, things aren't going well.

[@Aikko77]

No they’ve just always been racist

[@Sencifouy]

"Ordre nouveau" was founded as soon as ww2 ended, basically. To be perfectly fair, it did take the racists quite a lot time to be openly so. That said, I don't believe everyone voting for Le Pen is a racist. There's a good chunk of anti-establishment votes and anti-Macron votes in there.

[@jurgnobs1308]

there are obviously issues. but Le Pen doesn't offer any solutions. france didn't suddenly get racist. racism has been a significant issue for decades and has been slowly growing. doesn't change the fact that only a racist would possibly vote for Le Pen, considering how openly racist she is. I mean, for fucks sake, her party literally has the "eternal flame" of Mussolini in it's symbol.

[@Dagon1820]

Caring about your country and your culture is now racist if you're white

[@chuck948]

why do you hate black people

[@countdooku1363]

The fact that Macron didn't see this coming shows just how delusional he is.

[@JuanArielPommier]

If the RN gets the majority not absolute, he can use that to blame the next 2-3 years of government chaos. Same for the Left, plus shows a RN defeat. He knows his party power is deteriorating and it was likely it was going to be législative élections anyways in a future if they had to trigger another 49.3 so better get out on his own terms than giving someone else a winning argument.

[@etienne8110]

More like isolated in a ivory tower. Whenever he moves outside, police filters people allowed near the place (so only supporters can come to cheer him up), place is cleaned beforehand to make nice shots for the cameras etc... A true Potemkin village... No wonder he is out of it and disconnected with reality.

[@gagagagagagagaism]

Who said he didnt see this coming?

[@BigBlack81]

@@gagagagagagagaismSame! I think he and Rishi have mutually agreed to quit right when the merde will hit the fan 😂

[@gagagagagagagaism]

@@BigBlack81 His situation and Rishis are very very different

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

Can they elect some Napoleon descendant and call it a day?

[@bramobin]

each time we've had a napoleon, we've lost militarily and socially. better make a new republic

[@peterfireflylund]

Napoleon XIV comme le Président!

[@Mousquetaire-du-Roi]

@@bramobin Every time we had a Napoleon, France was pulled out of grave political deadlock/chaos, and we had healthy growth and pride until external forces attacked and forced the end of the Empires.

[@jonathanbuzzard1376]

@@Mousquetaire-du-Roi I think you will find the first Napoleon is the one who went on the attack. The consequence of this was external forces went Non.

[@JackChurchill101]

I was surprised after living 20 years of "Napoleon was a tyrant" to hear that it was the European monarchies who attacked him first.

[@jd4501a]

To call this the craziest election in French history shows a shocking lack of historic perspective when it comes to French elections.

[@Arrzarrina]

*Modern* French history not French history.

[@doriaarama9077]

He mentioned the 5th republic which is not te entire french history

[@ChinoBzH]

Sous la 5eme République, environ 60 ans

[@ChinoBzH]

On parle bien d'avoir un parti descendant de collaborateurs de nazis, un parti raciste, homophobe... Extrême droite, qui veut cracher sur les droits de l'homme, faire plusieurs classes de français, autoriser certains dérapages sur certains français...

[@ringsaphire]

they should have said in recent history or of the 21rst century lol

[@mjock392]

Guillotine: "Hey guys, remember when we were best friends? I miss those days..."

[@chameleon28]

The champagne socialists are first on the chopping block

[@jeebusk]

wouldn't want any competent people ruining it for the rest of us :p

[@asmo1313]

I wonder whose heads you want under the thing

[@etienne8110]

Don t worry,we never forgot you. Still have your number btw, give us a call when you pass nearby 😅

[@TheBathrobeWizard]

​@@etienne8110The Rack: are you seeing someone else?

[@mardasman428]

I don't think Macron wanted the RN to fail in the election. I think he wanted the RN to win in it, so that they had to be in control and utterly fail at doing it. Macron wanted the RN win a Pyrrhic victory that could potentially harm them in the long term. I am always surprised that people only think about "winning" or "losing" in the short term, as if there was no difference between a tactical and a strategic victory. Sometimes you have to retreat and lose the battle to win the war. I do not know however if such a strategic victory can be acquired this way. Only time will tell.

[@incurableromantic4006]

Power is a drug - politicians are addicts. They don't want to give it up. Ever. However bad things are.

[@felixp535]

That's precisely what happened with Hitler. They placed him in power thinking he would utterly fail, and well... we all know what happened

[@justanotherman1114]

Yes. I also think this is Macron's get out of jail card. His unimpressive performance will be shadowed by Le Pen's time in the parliament. He will be able to blame Le Pen's for economic(or other) failure and absolve his own mistakes.

[@Freedmoon44]

The truth is, the legislative will barely matter anyway, since Macron is still the executive and he can have the last word, hell it may not even bother him because both him and the RN wants to favor the rich, Macron the ultra rich more than the rich, but thats semantics

[@silverfox97480]

This is why Bardella said he would refuse to become prime minister if they don't win the absolute majority. Also for the past year Macron was just traveling and I would even say he was running away, avoiding his responsibilities as a president while there were so many protests, riots, social issues and other meltdowns left right centre in the country. Borne was pretty much running the country with Darmanin to her side. In theory, the executive power is held by the president but in the case of a coalition, the executive will be held by the prime minister.

[@planningto]

You won't find a proper explanation of the French voting system anywhere in the mainstream media. This was excellent, and I now understand it. Thank you!

[@Steve-xl1en]

I am still a bit confused though. I thought that young guy (who is big on tik tok) was groomed by Le Pen to take over??

[@TR4R]

I think this second round in legislative elections is a bit too much. It destabilizes the system. In Costa Rica you only have one election for members of Congress and two for president if nobody gets at least 40%. Demanding majority (that is, 51%) is a bit too high in a multiparty system.

[@basillah7650]

If you did not understand it before how do you even know if this is accurate - answer you don't.

[@TR4R]

@@basillah7650 if you're telling that to me, let me tell you that at least now I know why do they make two rounds of legislative elections in France. The media in my country practically don't speak about this, they just repeat like parrots "crisis, Le Pen, fascism, end of the world"...

[@Merecir]

@@TR4R Any result for a vote to a national Assembly needs to be proportional to the vote.

[@VVEGA2940]

The Pendulum Swingeth

[@taysondynastyemperor5124]

Not really; the right-wing parties will solve NOTHING. They’re just controlled opposition

[@blazoraptor3392]

The Marine Le Pendulum

[@The13thRonin]

We have been waiting.

[@jabloko992]

@@The13thRonin Two wrongs don't make a right. The cause is just, the answer is not. Extremism isn't the answer, but I know all too well how incompetent crooks have convinced you otherwise. I see you, I hear you, I feel you. I don't like being told that I'm evil because of my skin color or my genitalia either...and yet, I disagree. This will make things worse. If the Pendulum swings this way now, it will swing back to the Left yet again, is that what you want? The ball is in the Far Right's court and if history is anything to go by, they will do an even worse job.

[@thehighfresh3348]

But to which direction?

[@dulnithliyanage]

Good on the french people! France should be for the french first.

[@gourkernow5694]

Interesting that Bretagne stands out via its voting habits.

[@napoleonfeanor]

How? They have all three winners

[@jeanmartin963]

it does not. Until 2004 Bretagne was on the right side, that was its voting habits. Magically it became on the left. Perhaps because the atlantic front is the place in metropolitan France where you have the less mass immigration. The raise of the RN vote in the atlantic front is huge from 2022 to 2024, higher than elsewhere.

[@Minimmalmythicist]

@@jeanmartin963 The FN vote is smaller in Britanny than anywhere else outside the big cities though as it is in the French Basque country. I think it´s the kind of place where bombastic French nationalism doesn´t really sell that well for historic reasons. It´s true the FN have made inroads, but it´s still considerably less than in other parts of small town France

[@soleenzo893]

​@@jeanmartin963 it's important to remember that actually, the more cosmopolitan an area, the less people vote for xenophobic parties like the FN/RN. most migrants and descendents of migrants are in cities and historically city population and not very receptive to the RN. on the contrary the less interaction people have with foreigners pr theur descendents (rural areas), the more they votz FN. this is why it sort of is surprising to see a fairly rural area (though with several latge cities) like brittany not vote that much for the RN. as said before, i think because of the strong regional identity they pight be less attracted to the bombastic nationalism of the RN

[@jeanmartin963]

@@soleenzo893 You have two opposite ways of seing the phenomenon. First what you say and what people from the left think, the guys voting RN / FN are afraied of what they don't know. And then the way people from the far right think. Some people did not vote FN / RN during a long time because they were not a banch of racists and xenophobs and then they, or a member of their close family, made a terrible encounter with immigration and became awake. These two ways of seing the evolution cannot be right together. There is a simple way to know which one is true. Both theories agree on the fact that the RN vote is related to the contact with immigration, but the correlation is opposite. In the last 40 years the immigration has increased, and thus the contact with immigration. Did the RN/FN has decreased like the "left theory" predicts, or increased like the far right theory" predicts ?

[@sandyacombs]

Thank you for explaining the process and the different players.

[@arcadianfox8127]

It's not insane to explain these results. Europeans are tired. Tired that over the last few decades 100 million migrants from Africa/Middle-East have been taken to Europe. We're tired seeing our social programs abused and malnourished. We're tired seeing women and children being assaulted and men being mugged. We're tired being told we're not welcome in our own countries. Unless Europe rises up, it'll be too late to fix these issues and we're doomed to end up broken and devastated.

[@spacemarine3482]

"We're tired seeing our social programs abused and malnourished" maybe blame decades of neoliberal austerity rather a few migrants that only came after the west destroyed Syria and Libya also nowhere near 100 million migrants have come to Europe.

[@queen_simp3273]

100 million migrants? I'd love to see data on that Also blame neoliberal austerity for your shitty social services. Even in places with low immigration the systems are failing because they lack funding, not because there's been a small increase in population

[@TrueNativeScot]

@@spacemarine3482"a few migrants". Does 100 million seem like a few?

[@ahfei6847]

​@@spacemarine3482they would blame natural disasters on the migrants (and make it a billion of them)

[@Kyryyn_Lyyh]

Isn’t it funny that those two guys shillin for Browns both said “blame neoliberal austerity” Who says neoliberal these days. Seems sus.

[@vladimirtrifunovic9367]

Le Pen ❤

[@phoenixfire6433]

Well, well, well…how the turn tables.

[@josephberrie9550]

is it 33 1/3 or a 45 RPM

[@KipIngram]

Oh my goodness - a magazine actually CALLED "Too Long"? That's both audacious and genius - I like it. 🙂

[@chronomatomkairos4874]

Please, please go back to using bar charts or something else. These ring graphs are unclear at best and seem convoluted at worst. It is just not possible to get a good grasp of how much percent one section is out of the total - especially with the grey parts in between (are these spacers? Or are these votes for none of the shown parties? And if that is the case, why are they distributed over the whole ring and are not bunched up in one place?)

[@YllaStar95970]

The type of language, and vague graphics, are not just there to subliminally promote doubt. They also reveal this news channels bias.👍

[@ugiswrong]

So what is the bias then champ?

[@ariuss3009]

I think rings would be fine if they got rid of these meaningless gray spacers. Why are they even on the plot?!

[@chuck1804]

​@@ugiswrong I can answer that for him (because) this channel obviously has a leftwing bias.

[@d.b.2215]

​@@chuck1804oh please. everything not foaming-at-the-mouth fascistic is apparently "left wing bias" to you

[@ivansmith3718]

Watching this after round 2 is incredible

[@edmundprice5276]

Come on everyone, marshmallows at the ready 🔥🔥🔥

[@JohnTCampbell1986]

I have to say this is my first time seeing this channel and I'm pleasantly surprised by how balanced and seemingly impartial this was. MSM, especially BBC and C4 could learn a thing or 2.

[@tengbeng9756]

The results aren't insane. The RN have steadily increased their vote share in every election since 2002. It's the culmination of a long strategy of hard work legitimising themselves.

[@derekmahon1652]

True, previous administrations created increasing dissatisfaction

[@incurableromantic4006]

And also the "mainstream" parties de-legitimizing themselves.

[@InitialDraal]

Also the work of all the other parties to delegitimize themselves

[@annabarr1304]

Also Steve Bannon has been consulting the RN for years.

[@didd2810]

​@@derekmahon1652and then they band up together as "republicans". The constant desperation makes them look rightfully as losers.

[@iplz]

Make france french again

[@dehydratedmanatee3586]

Too late.

[@user-bp2ol4wi1c]

Based on situation in France this is to be expected, even not as extreme as situation demands.

[@zboy2020vision]

Yep I don’t get what you expect when they’ve had uncontrolled Islamic immigration leading to many terror attacks and violence was obviously gonna be a rightward shift

[@PersimmonHurmo]

French glass and car insurance companies are gonna be having a rough time 😂

[@nouche]

One common argument from Macron is to say that the NFP (mostly Mélenchon’s France Unbound) are just as much extremists as the National Rally. And that is utterly false, they’re reformists, maybe a little radical for some of them, but not extremists. It isn’t anticapitalist far-left. But that’s a strategy they use to make the NFP look bad. Admittedly, Poutou was a part of the NFP as well, and he is far-left. But his party’s candidates were like… 2% of the NFP at most.

[@Dagon1820]

Insane results!? Are you high? 🤣

[@zaydalaoui9397]

Insane as it’s a first time we have this split, what bothers you ?

[@44ThaNatos44]

An almost perfectly equal three way tie all accross the country is insane. It's also almost impossible to govern.

[@rationalfreak]

Insanity in Anglo standards is normalcy in French standards

[@SomeFreakingCactus]

A perfect three-way tie is pretty nuts, no matter who’s on what ballot.

[@enric-x]

This election is not chaotic, it's unprecedented and unpredictable. But that we cannot know (in advance) does not make it 'chaotic'. Your channel is more and more mainstream sensationalism every day, I have to say.

[@soundscape26]

That's the media landscape for you today. Much better to have democratic "chaos" than authoritarian peace.

[@herrairlunk]

Yeah, noticed this also. Wish all the best for France

[@nespppp]

Yeah, I noticed this too. Too much speculation and hyperbole

[@seansean2929]

It was called out of nowhere + the far right is gaining + the greens, communists and social democrats formed an unlikely coalition to counter this. As RN the other parties scrambled to create a barrier against it, massive demonstrations. Yet calling all this chaotic is "mainstream media", when I see these idiotic comments I really feel like there´s no hope.

[@ajmore]

These elections might change the face of Europe as we know it. From an empire, to a 3rd world country

[@no.6660]

People need to see that Europe hasn’t just shifted right for no reason. More and more people are starting to feel that it’s enough

[@Donut-fr7is]

You saw what the Turks did to the Syrians? Copy and paste that. If they fear for their lives they'll go.

[@greenlime8726]

Yeah, you are right. The only problem is that the right usually do not propose any solutions either. I am not French but the only good things National rally proposed are extension of direct democracy and switch to proportional representation system. The problem is that this is pretty much it.

[@BlacKi-nd4uy]

le pen isnt there to stay. ask poland and Kaczyński. they had enough of there right wing party. ppl need to learn how bad right wing parties are for their country. there will be more protests then ever before.

[@Darkprosper]

@@greenlime8726 The only reason why the RN proposes representational systems is that it would benefit them. It's not for the good of democracy. The traditional parties only oppose it because it would be to their detriment. None of that discussion should be taken into account when choosing who to vote for, it's all political calculations.

[@patrickbateman1660]

But the france hasn't shifted right. The far left has gained almost as much.

[@Mosern1977]

Thanks for explaining the French election system for a non-French in an understandable manner. Of course the French has made it complex they love complexity in France.

[@etienne8110]

Two turn élection isn t rocket science. 18th century illiterate farmers were able to grasp it, you should be able to too. 😅

[@motan7864]

@@etienne8110 he must be american, anything complex is difficult for them

[@thegoodpimps]

@@etienne8110 American democracy is mostly for show, the unelected actually run the country. The only difference between Trump and Biden is that Trump was outrageous and Biden was sleepy. It’s like choosing between watching a comedy and a drama. The actual policies were about identical.

[@2adamast]

Minority based majorities as so much more simple. Under Corbyn labour got more votes than Starmer

[@drriccat]

Waiting on the 2nd round analysis

[@altrag]

Snap elections don't seem to be going in the incumbent's favor too often these days. Not really surprising when you think about it. People are desperate for change. Western ideology has been falling apart rapidly ever since the 2008 financial crisis and covid-19 exacerbated the problems immensely. Trouble is, no major party anywhere is willing to address the real problem: the neoliberal economic policies forced on the west by Reagan and Thatcher back in the 1980s. We've slowly been eroding the middle class in order to transfer wealth to the already-wealthy. We got away with it for far longer than we should have primarily because of the computer revolution. Technology had been reducing costs faster than bad economic policies were stagnating wages for a good few decades so with a few exceptions (primarily housing), nobody really paid much attention. Unfortunately computer advancement hit the top of the 'S' curve somewhere around 2015 - notably right between the two largest disasters of this century (so far). Technology is still improving (we haven't hit an absolute peak yet - just a massive slowdown) but no longer anywhere near fast enough to compensate for the stagnant wages, especially in the wake of post-covid inflation. But no (major) political parties anywhere are really intent on addressing this. The right just wants to blame immigration (because you know, all those people who aren't even in their country yet are definitely the reason for already-existing economic problems) and despite significant research showing that immigration tends to make economies stronger. The left on the other hand is vaguely toying with the idea of actually caring about their constituents, but only the furthest left have actually gotten serious about things like increasing corporate tax rates or bringing capital gains taxes in line with actual income. (And then you have the far far left and right who both just want to burn it all down and create their own versions of fascism - USSR-style communist fascism on the left and Iran-style theocratic fascism on the right. Luckily the far far left hasn't gained much traction, but the far far right is unfortunately having more luck. Both are equally bad for the majority of any nation's citizens, and for the world as a whole when we're talking about significant world powers like France, Germany, the UK and especially the US.)

[@DutchDesires]

Being labelled far right just means your opposition is far wrong ~ Beermanmcdrink4151

[@CristianmrWuno]

Maloni was called far right and she is more centrist than Macron and is hanging out with the world leaders that the leftists love. It is just an ad hominem at this point

[@glike2]

As an American voter I am drooling over the French Ranked Choice Voting that we need to fix the dis functional Congress

[@ahfei6847]

Still not proportional. empty areas in the country get as many lawmakers than highly populated urban areas (for these elections).

[@SlovakPerson-ql6ez]

the congres dont want it because a reasonable party would come to be

[@holdenennis]

It's not ranked choice voting, it's a two-round system, you are thinking of Ireland.

[@liliangimenez4461]

As a French I am drooling over any country with a proportional system. Or even the EU parliament minus the 5% threshold.

[@mamatess4940]

As a French person, you resumed it perfectly 👍🏻

[@segalanicolas5608]

"to resume" en anglais ça veut dire "continuer/reprendre", il faut plutôt dire "sum up"

[@segalanicolas5608]

Ou summarize

[@d.b.2215]

They summed it up. Resuming means to continue after a pause

[@soundscape26]

Grammar accent there

[@elingrome5853]

Ffs language pedantry much?

[@Mastah2006]

Dear French - thank You for having enough sense to reject the Putin’s puppet

[@DrEhrfurchtgebietend]

Why don't they just use star voting and get rid of all this craziness?

[@bbudding]

The people lose 100% of the time when they vote far right. 100% of the time

[@jasonmaguire7552]

Tell me how importing the third world has helped any non-rich person in europe

[@_qw3rtyXxYz_]

Macron is ideologically closer to le pen than he is to melenchon.

[@zenster1097]

LMAO. Is that why they're allying with Melenchon, clown boy?

[@thegoodpimps]

Neither Macron nor Le Pen are friend to us Algerians! We’re moving onto to the English world, Africa is done with these French. They needed us more than we needed them.

[@pooky4565]

@@thegoodpimps nibba what

[@AgentK-im8ke]

@@thegoodpimps we dont need you gtfo

[@coci-nu6ky]

@@thegoodpimps Ew.

[@BlakeLyon-xw7of]

Wow crazy how you hold elections sunday and tuesday you have all results for next elections. In america you have states still "counting" a week after the election.

[@GamerFromJump]

They needed to know how many ballots to print.

[@Wezqu]

In Finland elections are usually counted already in the same day as they are hold but we only have 5.5 million people so its not surprise France takes a little bit longer as they have 67.9 million.

[@capitaine6423]

It's even more impressive because usually, 99% of the counting is done by 11pm on election day. But, contrary to the USA, the french only vote for 1 election at the same time and the voting places are way smaller (no more than 1500 people voting at the same place) which make the counting is extremely easy.

[@44ThaNatos44]

We have most results by midnight the same day. Elections day are always on a Sunday so that everyone can turn up, the number for each voting booth is not that big and most voting booth close at 6pm. We count the ballots just after they close, usually we're done by 8pm, sometimes even earlier. The numbers are then sent to the ministry which publish them as they come after 8pm. Honestly it's crazy smooth.

[@JOKERATM]

And still after all thos hours you can't guarantee a fair result

[@jojackson2818]

Why is it insane when the people want something different

[@SP95]

Because it's always smarter to call your political opponents mentally ill

[@buuga610]

Cuz media said so

[@keatonwastaken]

Because there is nothing different, you're just being fooled to not realize that 99% of the same economical and foreing policy decisions will be made by the other parties. Your life quality won't change, you'll just be lead by a carrot on a stick, just held by someone else that promises something else and never delivers.

[@44ThaNatos44]

Depends what "different" is. RN ran on an almost empty platform, except for immigration and safety issues. It's honestly kinda insane that they got so much support without having to state what their policy is on a lot of subjects. They don't even fake anything, they straight up dodge questions about most topics and have pulled back on a lot of national promises they made during the european election.

[@JOKERATM]

@@44ThaNatos44 maybe because people are so fed up with inmigration

[@ymustitho6343]

The question is are we ready for season 6 of the french musical chairs of polical chaos

[@spork3526]

i am

[@kortexounet]

Look, i've always been a leftist, but we live in the real world, and this have been sad to watch from my pov... For the past decades I witnessed every elections in France, the gig is that no recent French president was actualy elected for who he was, but who he faced, Le Pen's party always had that aura of racist and extremist party wich mean peoples who had same convictions were motivated enough to vote for them, leading the second turn as a " We need to vote to prevent Le Pen from reaching power !" not vote for the best of two candidates. We call it the vote barrage ( dam vote ) After so many years we got the results of such catastrophic politicals schemes. Non far right politicians realised that if you let immigration go rampant, it means always more and more peoples that will vote against Le Pens, because of their positions on immigration. And no matter how bad a president can be ( Take Macron as an exemple ) when he faces the far right, he's sure to win and get to power, but as years passes, the country is in a turning point, some citys are scary to live in, criminality and violence skyrocketted, unemployement and insecurity just keep going up, gang violence reached peaks, and even with our very strict gun laws, shootings in the streets between criminals are more and more common, killing civilians in their homes as collateral damages. France is also kind of a " USA sponge", whatever americans do, we copy them within few years span, french politics his slwoly turning in an immitation of american bi party system, and medias in generals are filled with more and more anti french / white propaganda, hate against french peoples has gone wild and unpunished on tiktok and twitter, using racism and colonialism as an excuse (like some blacks peoples still use slavery today to be racist against whites americans ) but the left have a simple moto, " Living together " and they won't fight against the hate coming from non whites in order not to alienate their potential voters. And to "everyones" surprise, hate leads to more hate and peoples grew pissed enough to vote for far right en masse. Weird how that happen ?

[@ElliotKeaton]

_"some citys are scary to live in, criminality and violence skyrocketted, unemployement and insecurity just keep going up, gang violence reached peaks, and even with our very strict gun laws, shootings in the streets between criminals are more and more common, killing civilians in their homes as collateral damages."_ Remember kids, anyone who tried to prevent this from happening was F A R - R I G H T. I guess you're far right now too.

[@pikoche6406]

perfect summary

[@aturchomicz821]

Buddy you are not a leftist, racism is a disease😂

[@papillonrouge2609]

Thank you! American needs to know what is really happening in France.

[@mrroams5812]

As a right leaning American i thank you for your empathy in understanding the whole picture and opposing viewpoints. Its very rare at least where I am.

[@Nejedlej07]

Not insane, but expected and understandable. We see what's happening there from another country.

[@patrickbateman1660]

What are you talking about? An almost perfect three way tie is crazy and makes the second round even crazier. It's going to be impossible to govern. You saw this coming?

[@houssineatm7827]

And you think voting for bardella is gonna solve it? That dude knows nothing beside "immigrants bad". A total NPC

[@Achillionable]

@@patrickbateman1660 It's going to be impossible to govern, exactly! Exactly the plan of Macron. If he win the election: he reaffirms his strength as the President. If he loses, it will be impossible for the RN to govern, so he can plan a simple "see? They can't do shit either". It's a win-win situation for Macron. ...for Macron. Not for the French people.

[@JewKiller]

@@houssineatm7827 Too bad I don't care what a "Hussein" says, you will go back.

[@mohsen9763]

@@houssineatm7827 I have a Muslim name too, but the fact that your name is "Houssine" explains why you're against Bardella. He is def right that "immigrants bad" considering what Arabs/Muslims are doing in western countries.

[@aaronsung1989]

First Macron, then the Tory

[@ungaaatioo2359]

Damn this channel went to sleep after election result😂

[@BrendanP]

The tumultuous political scene in the US, UK, France (and other countries) is in a way, fascinating to observe.

[@lifelearner47]

as of Tuesday evening, 190 triangulaires are now duels, as 190 candidates have stood down to permit votes against the RN.

[@MarcusCactus]

OR... for RN. Because a lot of people cannot vote for La France Insoumise.

[@AmicusAdastra]

pretty funny macron and mélanchon's sides critisizing each others all years long decide suddenly to associate with each others just t obeat RN and wil lcontinue arguing later completly ignoring what peoples voted for

[@TheLegitAlpha]

10,000 bucks says that it says Academy is going to end up declining as a result of this.

[@matthorrocks6517]

We never had a choice.

[@Pidalin]

Macron got completely crazy.....

[@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462]

I think he's just sick of it all and wants out.

[@Pidalin]

@@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462 it looks like that

[@edmerc92]

@@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462 He's still the president for three more years. This is about making him/his party look more reasonable by comparison.

[@padriandusk7107]

There are canyons and falls everywhere, if he wants to end it. No need to take the whole country along....

[@willcozine3795]

God forbid they use ranked choice voting

[@paulhall170]

Thank you for this analysis. Now, can you possibly explain the AMERICAN political system LOL LOL????

[@Uzeil21]

We need about a century of results like these everywhere just to correct the damage.

[@elrevesyelderecho]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="409">6:49</a> He is right about it.

[@davidwelty9763]

Called “insane” when your side looses😂

[@ChipsBruh]

You guys really have become the voice of objective truth in the news-world. Just straight facts. Love it!

[@edmerc92]

Is it really "insane" when the results followed almost exactly what the polls predicted, and what the European results were a month ago? It would have been insane to expect a different result.

[@guyh9992]

If France had Australian style preferential voting it would all be over after the first round.

[@jamesbryant8133]

If your calling the results insane your probably not aware enough to explain the situation 🤔

[@taxibaanyoutube9156]

Wondering who would end up in civil war first: 🇲🇫 or 🇺🇸

[@trailguy]

The NFP might be benefitting from anti-war sentiment. Since the 18-25 block seems to be strong supporters, I’m wondering if they feel at risk of being drafted into war. In the u.s. the youngest tend to be the most liberal, so this is interesting to me.

[@thylacina5989]

There's not many things I'm nationalistic about, but Australia's ranked-choice electoral system is one of them. My head starts spinning every time I try to understand any other kind of electoral system lol

[@Hardcore_Remixer]

It's not chaotic. It's just a turning point.

[@patrickbateman1660]

A turning point in to complete chaos? A three way tie makes it impossible to govern. This is very chaotic as forming a coalition will be extremely hard.

[@Hardcore_Remixer]

@@patrickbateman1660 What happens when you run in a direction and you want to turn the opposite way? You slow down to a stop before you can run in the opposite direction. That slowing down is where France currently is, aka a point of turning towards the opposite way, the change being a shift from left wing to right wing. This 'chaos' is the transit status of France and it's entirely normal. Sure, the fact that France is bound to stay in place untill a solution comes is indeed a problem.

[@Sebhon]

Congratulations France greetings from Poland. STAY STRONG !😊

[@AstroAnarchist37]

Macron: Calls a snap election after the disastrous EU election, hoping the French people don’t want National Rally, and hope his Centrist alliance comes out on top French People: Want National Rally, so they vote them in with the highest vote and seat share Macron and the Centrists: Surprised Pikachu Face

[@bobrong9645]

To be fair to most other "centrists", they knew from the start it wasn't a very bright idea. e.g.: Attal begged Macron to have him replaced instead of calling an election. EDIT: Macron is hardly a centrist, moderate right is a better description.

[@berkekadircelik6282]

Perhaps Macron's strategy is to allow the National Rally to win the upcoming elections in order to halt their growing momentum. Historically, a party often loses voter support gradually after assuming power.

[@almondandfriends]

i caution to add here that National Rally won a majority not an absolute majority, its arguable the majority of french people dont want the far right party to win given over 60% of them voted against them with a majority voting for either a left leaning coalition absolutely opposed to NR or Macrons centrist alliance.

[@mardasman428]

I don't think he wanted the RN to fail in the election. I think he wanted the RN to win in it, so that they had to be in control and utterly fail at doing it. Macron wanted the RN win a Pyrrhic victory that could potentially harm them in the long term. I am always surprised that people only think about "winning" or "losing" in the short term, as if there was no difference between a tactical and a strategic victory. Sometimes you have to retreat and lose the battle to win the war.

[@asdasdasddgdgdfgdg]

​@@bobrong9645Macron is at best a centrist. He used to be a member of the socialist party and minister in a socialist government under Hollande and Valls for crying out loud. French politics is extremely left wing anyway.

[@randomimprovise1918]

This is,however, better than US and UK system that drive both major parties to have centrist stance and not so different from each other. Most people not vote for the best choice the vote the least evil that they believe can win against party they dislike In French system more left and right still have chance to win and people can vote for the best one in their mind at least in first round

[@tellmewhenitsover]

The political maps are always so telling to me. Its a small concentration of people dictating to the rest that they must provide for them. Every time.

[@andrewcabral3117]

Far right for wanting borders. lol

[@prunomars1410]

they also want to privatize the television, to ban the hijab, and so on. They dont SEEM far right-wing because they attempted not looking like a far right party thanks to a subtle communication

[@RoDaX55]

Yeah apparently it's the new normal since the left has been pushing their anti right propaganda... EU is waking up for the stupidity of the far left and how we were moving towards a communist EU with many pushed towards censorship, anti private wealth and more slaves in the form of unregulated immigrants that accept any level of job/pay

[@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.]

@@prunomars1410 : They aren't Far-Right. They are Right leaning at best.

[@rogerodle8750]

Best explanation of the French voting system I've seen. Kudos.

[@Diegomax22]

Vive la France 🇫🇷

[@micaeloliveira2727]

Toujours ❤❤❤

[@tomatoheadfd]

Let's hope yall won't elect woman Hitler.

[@shiramaro]

why did you give back algeria

[@elingrome5853]

@@shiramaro zzzzzzzzzzz BORRRINNNNG

[@micaeloliveira2727]

@@shiramaro we're sorry 😂

[@atiger4716]

Little micron a clear narcissist can not see beyond his mirror 😂

[@dog-ez2nu]

It's important to understand that centrists always expect the left to back them when it matters, but the centrists will never back the left when it matters - centrists would rather have the right wing around than the left wing and it's been like this for most of modern history. Macron, Biden, Starmer - they concede to the right wing everytime.

[@brianferguson7840]

An introduction to French elections. Elections are in two "tours" the first is open to any parties or independents. To win outright in the first tour a party must gain 51% of all the votes cast "and" 25% of the entire electorate. This prevents someone profiting from a low turnout. In the second tour, only the top two are allowed to present in each constituency. There can be a certain amount of coalitions formed and parties joined. The winning candidates can then if they have a majority take power or lesser parties can again form a coalition. Bare in mind that this has no effect on the President, he remains until the end of his tenier. The President then choses ministers of state including Prime Minister. It is entirely normal for people to make protest votes in the first tour, and obviously supporters of minority groups will gravitate to their closest candidate ideologically in the second tour. Paradoxically a good result in the first tour ça be detrimental to that party in the second. Imagine a second Brexit vote after people had been startled by the initial result.... Et maintenant, on verra !!! Also the Premier tour has never reflected the results of the deuxiem for 70 years.

[@NormanF62]

Made sense as long as people rallied to the mainstream parties. They’re so widely disliked today the old tactic of stopping someone else you despise through strategic voting alliances has lost its effectiveness. Add to that the fact the centrists and the left loathe each other, you can see why finding common ground is so difficult. The 70 year rule might just get to be broken this year. Blame the result on Macron who called an election he wasn’t compelled to call in the first place.

[@RankinMsP]

Merci beaucoup ❤

[@stephendalton1648]

Why is it "Wild"?

[@Vincentovich89]

I'm an American and even I know France needs Le Pen, Britain needs Farage, and the Kippah will stop both from happening.

[@EllRiver]

Both lost

[@Vincentovich89]

@@EllRiver like I predicted. That almighty Kippah is omnipotent.

[@ungaaatioo2359]

Have the courage to remove the EYpac from US? No? ​@@Vincentovich89

[@jasonmaguire7552]

Is china fascist for having steucter immigration policies than anywhere in europe?

[@panzerbanz7296]

"France's Insane Election Results Explained" Nothing is insane in this case...

[@anthonyrinaldi1331]

The established "defenders of democracy" seemed determined to cynically game said Democracy all to push any threat to the status Quo away and pretend the real grievances of the French people don't exist.

[@TimeMakerDotPH]

Haha, France is on its way to 1933. France use semi-presidential system in the same way Weimar Republic use semi-presidential system. Macron dissolve parliament in the same way Hindenburg dissolve parliament while the government still enjoys confidence. Macron defeated Le Pen in the presidential election in the same way Hindenburg defeated Austrian Painter. Now, Le Pen's right-hand man is posed to become PM in the same way Hindenburg appointed Austrian Painter chancellor. I can't believe this is happening in the 21st century 😂😂😂.

[@mrsupremegascon]

Execpt Le Pen doesn't want to invade Poland or anyone else, nor want to remove any rights. Le Pen is moderate.

[@Evemeister12]

People have differing points of view. What a surprise.

[@nithinkiron4462]

Dear french people protect your culture and country from far left radicalised people.

[@snowcold5932]

I'm french, and what you call "far-left radicals" is our country. We overthrew the king, we sing the Marseillaise and Liberté Égalité Fraternité. We wrote the universal declaration of human rights, we questioned authority and fought for our rights. The far-right was always allied with the germans, the austrians, the british, now the russians. Le Pen and her movement are the anti-France.

[@aliceg6745]

​@@snowcold5932 😂😂😂 Le RN est clairement le parti le plus pro France. LFI soutient plus les étrangers et les minorités que la masse française. Quel homme politique ferait ça dans n'importe quel autre pays ? Arrêtez de raconter n'importe quoi aux étrangers qui, pour beaucoup, souhaitent une victoire de ce qu'on appelle "extrême-droite". Et vive la France, sa culture, son patrimoine, le peuple. 🇫🇷

[@NEX1-t7j]

Hope the RN win. don't want to end up like germany or belgium

[@so8060]

Result we don't like = insane result, amazing

[@njnikusha]

Yeap Leftist nut jobs narrative

[@bertile]

I'm french and i'm outraged how you speak of le Pen She is fascist not right wing Please correct this

[@spacemarine3482]

Bro these guys love painting the far right as regular standard conservative parties they aren't going to.

[@juggerfox]

French and outraged? How odd! Right-wing is the gateway to fascism.

[@ronmastrio2798]

Maybe actually read some time and actually find out what the definition of fascism is. It's actually an ideology and not just a slur to use against anyone to the right of Mao.

[@joelbartor]

lol another sheep « Le pEn iS fAcHisT » the problem we have in the west is those ignorants learning about the world on medias such as cnn or tf1

[@jeyna8243]

@@ronmastrio2798 It's what she aims. She will first privatize the audiovisual whih will brainwash the population the same way Fidesz in Hungary brainwashed them. After that she'll be able to do whatever she wants and still get re elected. She's a populist and a conformist. She will never stops and each time claim a new group is responsible for the shit economy. First the migrants. Then the unemployed. The Homeless. The LGBTs and feminists. The artists.

[@Minimmalmythicist]

Je pense que la seule façon d´empecher l´arivée au pouvoir a longe terme du FN (je ne parle pas de ces éléctions législatives) c´est que Macron retire les mésures les plus polémiques qu´il a prises. Il faut aussi se rendre compte qu´on ne bat pas l´extreme droite en imitant ses idées.

[@Sacrevert]

Les gens veulent moins d'immigration, et voteront RN tant que cela ne sera pas réglé

[@prunomars1410]

ça aurait dû être fait avant... Ici, soit le NFP fait une politique de rupture dont les gens veulent, soit le RN se retrouve au pouvoir et ne fait pas ce que les gens attendent d'eux... et alors là je ne sais pas vers qui ils vont se tourner après... si il y a un après

[@Minimmalmythicist]

@@prunomars1410 oui, vous avez tout a fait raison, j´habitais en France pendant la présidence de Sarkozy et je pensais qu´il y avait déja de mauvais signes.

[@tpower1912]

There's no stopping the far right rising when you let in millions of non-Europeans turning cities into the third world. It's a done deal. Good job.

[@ahfei6847]

Ce qui me rend malade c'est le taux de participation tellement faible dans les populations sur lesquelles le RN tapera en premier: 45% de participation en Seine-Saint-Denis. Quelle misère.

[@danieldorn9989]

What is there to explain? The ruling parties made a big oopsie and people are reacting to that.

[@robertgammon-ross9983]

Seems weird they dont use preferential voting, would mean both rounds could be done with only one vote

[@jimpaddy79]

Thats what I was thinking, it seems to be designed to help centrist parties

[@Arthur-vb3se]

​@@jimpaddy79 No because if the centrist candidate is too low he cannot win. Whereas in a preferential system he would often win.

[@etienne8110]

Few countries use it. All systems have pro and cons. The preferential scoring tends to favours the milder candidates for ex. Tending to lead to the same politics going on whatever the winner is...

[@ozbaz99]

@@Arthur-vb3seI think you may have a point there. Either system is better than The British first past the post. However they are all better than China’s and North Korea’s system of government.

[@twicethegalo]

​​@@ozbaz99 so refreshing to see a comment thread with common sense

[@RafaelW8]

Actually, very well explained. Good video.

[@bad_choyces]

" aacccttuaallllyyyyyy "

[@istoppedcaring6209]

interesting to note how National rally is actually represented by members that ethnically represent their regions, for instance in departement Nord there is at least one member with a flemish surname that won 45%+ of his district. In French Flanders there is actually a lot of flemish pride all be it primarily francophone and given how economically strong flanders is, how many people travel from departement nord to work in flanders with it being quite flemish nationalist now but still very open and respectfull to work migrants the feeling may have caught on. that's just it, this isn't your great grandfathers nationalism, this is a pan european nationalism, flemish nationalists go to the same events as french nationalists despite one being statebound and the other seperatist. to that extent there was an event in Brussels just months ago and maybe that is the biggest contribution of the EU to these parties, they forced them to sit together and they realised that to succeed they needed to actually organise together. whether they will deliver in the end remains to be seen but Europe is not the US, we need to stop the demographic collapse of native europeans and most of all the cultural war it has brought with it

[@psier11]

Elderly vote for couple's male, the 80 yrs old xdresser Jean Michel

[@BlazeLycan]

I foresee crazy protests and demonstrations occurring regardless of who wins. This seems like a setup for a crazy controversy.

[@jeyna8243]

Right, that will happen during the olympics. Macron really timed that well. We're approching the end of the mexican standoff. This feels like the end of a Netflix serie.

[@armintargaryen9216]

Coming back to see how all the comments from fascist apologists saying "it was a normal result", "that's what the French people want" blablablah have aged 🍿🍿🍿🍿