experimental musical composition ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyaPNGNblLk
#FrenchElection
When I last wrote about the fallout from France's election this summer, and President Emanuel Macron's refusal to nominate a Prime Minster from the coalition of left and left leaning parties that gained the most seats in Parliament, many people predicted (and I agreed) that Macron seemed likely to work with the right (including the fascist National Rally and its leader Marine Le Pen) to effectively steal the election. Perhaps to the surprise of no one, Macron has now done just that and appointed Michel Barnier as PM despite the fact that Barnier's party gained only 8.3% of the seats in the election.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/macron-rightwing-prime-minister
Macron Names Right-Wing Prime Minister, 'Turning His Back' On French Voters
"The election ended with the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP), the left coalition, winning a plurality of seats at 32.6%, Macron's own Ensemble coalition of centrist neoliberals winning 27.9%, and the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) winning 24.6%. NFP and Ensemble coordinated their efforts in the final round, forming a "republican front" to block the RN—a successful effort that drew praise from left and centrist figures across the world.
Barnier's center-right party, Les Républicains (LR), once a powerful force in France, gained only 8.3% of the seats, yet emerged victorious in the prime ministerial sweepstakes following Macron's negotiations with RN leader Marine Le Pen, who's thought to have agreed to Barnier's appointment. Without RN's support, Barnier could be ousted by a no-confidence vote in parliament.
In late August, Macron rejected the NFP's proposed prime minister, Lucie Castets, a little-known civil servant and economist whose nomination was itself a compromise reached by the parties within the NFP, which include the center-left Parti Socialiste (PS), the left-wing La France Insoumise (LFI), and Les Écologistes, a green party.
Les Écologistes on Thursday condemned Macron's choice, saying he was "obsessed with the preservation of his neoliberal record" and he'd aligned with the far-right."
The important thing to understand here is that Macron has ultimately stolen the election, and ignored the will of the people; who banded together and cast votes for the expressed purpose of stopping the fascist right in France from taking power. Of course he was able to do so because no party won a true majority, but the left coalition (Nouveau Front Populaire) did finish with the most seats, and would reasonably assume the right to form the government under normal circumstances, so Macron has told French voters to pound sand because he'd prefer to work with the fascists regardless of how people voted.
There will of course be those who argue that this is not an open capitulation to fascism, because Bernier is not a member of the National Rally, but as the article notes given his rightward turn on immigration, and the fact that he didn't support the republican blockade to stop La Pen and the fascists from winning, I think that position is obtuse; at a minimum he will be relying on support from National Rally to stay in office, and is thus likely to appease them and support significant portions of their fascist agenda. Of course, Macron himself has spent several years appeasing the fascists by tacking hard right on migrants, nationalism, and anti-left policies, and also didn't support the republican blockade so the argument that there even is a French center has rightfully been derided by many left wing observers with far more experience in French politics than you or I.
Stepping back into an American perspective however, I think this speaks to a larger problem in capitalist, Pig Empire politics I've been talking about for a long time. The simple truth is that when push comes to shove, the capitalist "center" (which is objectively a right wing position and always has been, even if it's not expressly fascist) hates the left, their electorate, and the idea of restricting predatory capitalism so much that they will invariably align with fascism, and against sharing. This is because at the end of the day, this so-called "center" has far more in common with the fascists, than it does with socialists, or even just poor people who want a better deal for their families. They both think some deserve to live, and some deserve to die, that some deserve to enjoy opulent wealth, and some deserve to toil in servitude to that opulent wealth. They only disagree about how to sort out who is who, but if you examine the final tally the folks doing the dying are mostly the same in either outlook.
Furthermore, this dynamic is only magnified under the specter of fossil fuel induced climate crisis; when the choice becomes capitalism and mass murder, versus socialism and sustainability, these folks will pick capitalism every time, even if it means working with nazis. Mark my words, we will see many more Macrons in the Pig Empire in the near future.
#FrenchPol #Fascism #Coup #Neoliberalism #FrenchElection #Macron #Barnier #LePen
How the French political impasse is undermining Macron in Europe https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/podcast/how-the-french-political-impasse-is-undermining-macron-in-europe/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #coalition #EmmanuelMacron #EU #France #Frenchelection
"Scène Vivante" teableau for 07/15/24
This teableau signifies “le cordon sanitaire,” meaning the French election's result in various parties coming together to maintain a safe corridor against far right extremism. It's shaky, but it's holding for now.
#Tea #Teableau #TeaCozy #TeaCosy #BlackTea #FrenchVanilla #VanillaTea #France #Paris #FrenchElection #CordonSanitaire
@Moodys Moody's who has issued this diatribe against government spending on social programs is the same company that sold Triple "A" ratings to the banks and investment houses that were pushing those dogshit mortgage bonds that almost collapsed the western economies in 2008. US Gov't used billions in taxpayer money to bail out the offending banks and investment houses. Yeah, we're gonna take advice from Moody's. #Moodys #FrenchElection #FrenchElections #France #Euronews
NEW PODCAST 🚨
A surprise left-wing election win? In Europe? In 2024? This week, we turn to our resident Parisian journalist to try to get our heads around what just happened in France, as well as what might happen next.
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/what-happens-after-frances-surprise-swing-to-the-left
#podcast #france #FrenchElection #election #news #europe #eu #politics
For years on this channel, we've been talking about the need for the US left to detach from the Democratic Party and for the existing, mostly quite small left parties to join together in a #LeftCoalition or #LeftCongress to intensify the class struggle and increase workers' economic and political power. This week in France, the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) or New Popular Front, which has done just that, took the lead in the national elections and, together with the "center" ("moderate" right) forces behind Macron, pushed the extreme-right Marine Le Pen and her fascist National Rally party into third place at a time when they had been expected to win control of the government.
The NFP includes parties from the center-left to the far-left such as Jean-Luc Mélenchon's France Unbowed (La France Insoumise or LFI), Mitterand's and Hollande's Socialist Party (PS), the French Green Party (LE-EELV), and the French Communist Party (PCF), among others. While all of these deserve significant criticism and most likely will not be able to guide the French masses out of capitalism in their present form, they are far preferable in the short term to Macron's neoliberal austerity ghouls or the flat-out neo-Nazis of the National Rally. The French masses now must take every opportunity to strengthen the fight for better conditions, increased class consciousness, and an independent, internationalist, revolutionary party of the proletariat as they struggle to build a movement capable of ending capitalism in France.
From the NFP's website:
"You asked us; we did it: the new Popular Front was born to govern and change everything.
"We have united, beyond political parties, around a program of rupture, solid, coherent and fair, quantified by economists and experts:
"1) To defend purchasing power and wages;
"2) For public services everywhere, from overseas to the countryside via working-class neighborhoods;
"3) For all women who demand equality and an end to violence;
"4) To defend the climate and living things;
"5) For all those who experience racism, anti-Semitism or Islamophobia;
"6) To defend the Republic against the far right.
"We are the camp of social, ecological, popular victories and peace. Progress and bright tomorrows. Our history is great. We must now write the future of our country."
source: https://www.france24.com/en/france/20240707-france-s-leftist-new-popular-front-wins-a-shock-victory-%E2%80%93-but-now-the-hard-part-begins
source: https://www.nouveaufrontpopulaire.fr/
#news #politics #france #nfp #newpopularfront #socialism #communism #socialist #communist #marxism #marxist #revolution2030 #rev2030 #s4a #socialismforall #marxismleninism #election #elections #frenchelections #frenchelection #macron #tatertube
Aw, poor baby. Did Putin's election influence campaign not bear fruit? World's smallest violin and all that.
Jackass dictators.
#frenchelection #frenchelections #frenchpolitics #FuckYouHardRight
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Kremlin mopes over French election results – POLITICO
@AlisonCreekside And this is a bad thing why? It was Conservative economic policies in the UK including Brexit that, to quote John Carney, turned the UK into "Argentina On The Thames." Why this assumption that progressive policies are incompatible with a strong economy? Doesn't research prove the opposite? I think some uninformed biases maybe at play here.#Cdnmedia #Cdnmediafail #Canada #Cdnpoli #FrenchElection #FrenchElections
https://bbc.com/news/articles/c51y4zev0x2o
Right wing fascists blaming the process for their party's defeat in the #FrenchElection on Sunday. That process is known as democracy. They hate it when they lose elections because centre and progressive parties get more votes. Sound familiar. #France #cdnpoli #uspol #democracy
Can't help sighing every time I hear/read of France being 'left in a mess' after their elections... more of a mess than a far right bunch of neo nazis taking power then? 🙄
🗳️🇫🇷 #FrenchElection
France finds itself in gridlock after the surprise victory of the leftist New Popular Front.
Since Macron came to power, traditional bipartisanship has given way to a divided Assembly ⤵️
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-french-election-results/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcyMDQ0NTA5NCwiZXhwIjoxNzIxMDQ5ODk0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTRzlTMUhUMEcxS1cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJEMjk1RDc5RkRFQzc0QjQ4OEJDMUY1Mjc1Mjg1RUQ2NSJ9.SB-lardCewYbYTc-ipGmDtaPS2KzDWIrQ4UvpJUqSj0
I don't think that the missile strikes on children hospitals #Kyiv today should be taken out of the context of the #FrenchElection The strike would have spoiled Le Pen's election results if happened two days earlier. Which makes it a premeditated attack on civilian targets planned on the highest of levels in Kremlin #Ukraine #PutinIsaWarCriminal
Gotta eat my words here...
Dass #Macrons Partei überraschend auf Platz 2 gelandet ist, zeigt dass das Kalkül gar nicht so verkehrt war.
Hmm odly muted news. Methinks the mainstream corporate media didn't get what they wanted with the #FrenchElection result.
#farright
I’m not sure the UK media know how to cope with French politics.
It just doesn’t fit the nicely defined boxes.
Liberté feeling a little relief this morning. As do I.
Well done France!
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