EU French far right obliterates Macron’s camp in EU election - Macron dissolved French parliament following crushing EU election defeat and called fresh legislative elections June 30.

French far right obliterates Macron’s camp in EU election
Politico EU (archive.ph)
By Victor Goury-Laffont
2024-06-09 19:53:39GMT


Jordan Bordella and Marine Le Pen. | Stephane de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images

PARIS — The far right National Rally (RN) is projected to win the European election in France with 31.5 percent of the vote — more than twice the presidential list, a shock result which has pushed President Emmanuel Macron into calling snap elections Sunday evening.

The RN, headed by Jordan Bardella, is set to achieve its highest-ever finish in a nationwide election, while President Emmanuel Macron’s coalition party would register the second-lowest EU election finish ever for a party in French government.

“The president of the republic cannot remain deaf to the message sent this evening by the people of France,” Bardella said in front his supporters at the Parc Floral in Paris. The far right leader demanded the president call early legislative elections, pointing to the “unprecedented gap” between the main opposition party and the party in power.

Macron announced that the French National Assembly would be dissolved this month, with new elections set to be held on June 30th.

The pro-Macron list, led by Valérie Hayer, is currently at 15.2 percent — one point ahead of the social democratic list led by Raphaël Glucksmann at 14 percent, according to an estimate by polling institute Ipsos.

The center-left list of Glucksmann rose steadily throughout the campaign, closing the gap with the pro-Macron list, which failed to gather momentum despite French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s strong involvement. “I am proud of what have we achieved, but I don’t feel like celebrating,” Glucksmann said in response to the first estimates. “Everywhere in Europe, we are witnessing a wave that is shaking our democracy.”

The radical left France Unbowed list, led by Manon Aubry, is expected to have bagged 8.7 percent of the vote — roughly 2.5 percentage points above its 2019 finish. The conservative Les Républicains party, meanwhile, is shown receiving 7.2 percent of the tally.

The French Greens and the nationalist Reconquest movement led by Marion Maréchal are both shown around 5 percent — the minimum threshold in France to elect MEPs.

A final tally of the vote will be released later this evening.

 

[Edict of Expulsion]

Sweden

It really is incredible how you can have an entire country that is so suicidal and so against its own people and interests. Canada and Australia are not far off.
Really is disgusting and cowardly but also fascinating how entire countries and cultures can become and stay suicidal.

 

[FedPostalService]

The cycle of the UK really seems to me to be this
Vote in Conservatives so they stop Migration >>> They don't >>> Vote for labor, they invite even more migrants >>> Vote in Conservatives so they stop Migration >>> repeat

The weird thing is that traditional Labour voters are some of the most racist people I’ve ever met but have a complete blind spot when it comes to this.

 

[David Brown]

Is this one of those times when "far right" just means they ask for lube before volunteering to be spitroasted by a Muslim and a tranny or is it actually far right? "far right" could mean anything

 

[Molly Millions]

Do it the Dutch way

Eat him

 

[HairyBadger]

Is this one of those times when "far right" just means they ask for lube before volunteering to be spitroasted by a Muslim and a tranny or is it actually far right? "far right" could mean anything

Pretty much.

 

[cybertoaster]

Possibly because he's actually scared the French population will do something violent about it if he tries to ignore this.

Guess at least one western leader paid attention during history class...

Is this one of those times when "far right" just means they ask for lube before volunteering to be spitroasted by a Muslim and a tranny or is it actually far right? "far right" could mean anything

Would be interesting if a new party showed up that openly talks about racial purity, extermination of foreigners, mandatory religious education, expansionism and imperialism, reestablishing slavery, etc, only to see the libshits having multiple strokes trying to frame them in ideological terms given that they would be to the right of the og nazis who are themselves light-years to the right of anyone in the current "far-right".

 

[NevskyProspekt]

The people of France have demonstrated overwhelmingly that they want a change of government, so he has dissolved the government to allow them to have their say.
This does contrast with recent politics elsewhere which boiled down to "I know you all hate our political party, but you can't force us to call an election for x years so we're going to hang on anyway and there's nothing you can do about it", and represents some sort of wanting to do the right thing for the country (or at least wanting to hand over power with dignity without clinging on). Possibly because he's actually scared the French population will do something violent about it if he tries to ignore this.

I hate to be a doomer but I can’t shake the feeling that there will be some sort of massive disappointment in the near future, regardless. I really hope that sense is wrong. Also I fully expect the US to do what it normally does, kvetch and prepare glowie crap to nip this tide in the bud. My default is nothing ever happens.

 

[变性黑鬼]

Is this one of those times when "far right" just means they ask for lube before volunteering to be spitroasted by a Muslim and a tranny or is it actually far right? "far right" could mean anything

"Far right" in Europe is just an extremely sticky slander term. The so-called "far right" parties are only called that by their opponents.

 

[Bloom Worm Cross Field]

I didn't realise Le Pen stepped down, is the new guy based or cringe?

The weird thing is that traditional Labour voters are some of the most racist people I’ve ever met but have a complete blind spot when it comes to this

The racism of those working class northerners is dwarfed by their unending, burning hatred of Margaret Thatcher. That and the fact that they're buck broken from 70 years of politicians going against 50 million different electoral expressions of stopping immigration. Seems like every couple of decades a real "send the buggers back" party comes about in the UK, the last being the BNP in the mid noughts.

 

[Orc-Chud]

Is this one of those times when "far right" just means they ask for lube before volunteering to be spitroasted by a Muslim and a tranny or is it actually far right? "far right" could mean anything

You know the answer when we are talking about eurocucks

 

[Jex]

So the UK also recently pulled a snap election, one where the conservatives are pretty much handing it to Labour. I’ve read some analysis and it makes sense, both the UK’s Labour and Conservative Party form a kind of uniparty where they’re more or less the same thing with a different flavour. Both are large, established parties capable of fielding candidates throughout the country on short notice. So calling a snap election catches smaller more anti establishment parties out, ensuring that seats are kept within the two dominant parties.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but hasn’t France effectively killed off their uniparty over the last few decades. Macron and Le Pen are relatively new. So what’s the calculus for the snap election if Macron doesn’t think it looks good for him?

 

[Instant_Pot_User]

Europe just wants ausländer raus

 

[im5!XxhO]

I actually respect Macron a lot for this move. He could have played for time like most European politicians do but instead he put it in the hand of the voters. Still won't save his party but at least he is facing his fate

 

[Ewan McGregor]

I actually respect Macron a lot for this move. He could have played for time like most European politicians do but instead he put it in the hand of the voters. Still won't save his party but at least he is facing his fate

How altruistic! There probably is a catch, but by the time we know what it is, it'll be late

 

[Slur Generator]

I actually respect Macron a lot for this move. He could have played for time like most European politicians do but instead he put it in the hand of the voters. Still won't save his party but at least he is facing his fate

Bad shit is on the horizon and the people in charge will get the blame.

 

[mister fireworks]

Macron will burn in hell and its interesting to see any kind of right wing flare-ups in europe, but I dont really understand how anyone in power is gonna fix their problems.

Isnt the open borders thing specifically in place to bring in low paid workers to fill tax coffers for the pensions/healthcare of their large and growing population of elderly people? Even if all the white europeans start having families now, theres a 20-30 year gap of workers who will be needed to keep their system going. How will they manage that?

Also, the socialist systems of all these European countries are built off of two things. first, investing their pension funds into low risk but extremely high yield (compared to anything else in the world) mutual funds which increase in value because of the basically endless growth of the US economy. burst bubbles aside, its been this way since WWII. A US recession/depression would fuck up European entitlements until the market recovers. second, their budgets dont include significant defense spend, so they can use all that money on healthcare and shit. do these right wing parties support investing in their own national militaries? I'm gonna guess not, simply because the money that these countries get to save by relying fully on the US for military pressure (lol NATO) is the other major reason why they get to have their little socialist paradises where people can retire with full pension at 52 or whatever. They have their small regiments of marching men, but they arent dropping billions on aircraft carriers and or nuclear subs.

Western Europe made the deal with the devil post-war, and its great to even have the chance to see their chickens come home to roost. I respectfully disagree with our dear leader when he says that those greatest gen retards died for nothing. They died so that the side that the US funded would win, and could leverage the debt owed by the allies to bend them to its will. They died so that the US could use the marshall plan to reconfigure European powers to best suit its own interests. They died for Bretton Woods, American Hegemony, and for victory of capitalism over communism.

I dont play map games and I've only read a bit about Russo-german relations during the war. But I know that when Ribbentrop and molotov signed their non aggression pact, they drank to the death of England. The Russians hated England first and foremost and had they been more strategic and organized, could have fought the British and French with Germany. What would the world be like today if Russia and Germany had become allies?

 

[Greggs]

Globohomo bros, we'll wait it out on Isle of Man

 

[im5!XxhO]

How altruistic! There probably is a catch, but by the time we know what it is, it'll be late

Oh there's an obvious catch. It's easy to vote for radicals in the EU election since the EU parliament doesn't matter much.
Macron is betting the won't have the balls to do it in a national election. I think that's a loosing bet though.

 

[doodoocaca]

I actually respect Macron a lot for this move. He could have played for time like most European politicians do but instead he put it in the hand of the voters. Still won't save his party but at least he is facing his fate

I don't think he minds doing so tbh.

 

[MirrorNoir]

Someone explain it to me like I'm retarded ( American ). Why would he dissolve the national parliament if it seems clear his party will lose seats ?

Damage control.

A snap election is used in parliamentarian government as a tactic when the ruling party knows they are going to get tossed out of power, as a form of triage to stop the bleeding and keep power. You don't wait for shit to hit rock bottom for an election, you do it when you realize you are fucked and have some semblance of high ground in the impending fight that will lead to your collapse.

Best case scenario, you basically call your opponent's bluff and the bluff of the pissed off population who you realize hate you/want you out of power and basically tell them "go ahead! throw me out of power! I double dog dare you!". The idea is that you call their bluff and the public at least, fold like cowards and vote to keep you in as part of a "devil you know" situation. Worst case, you call a snap election and lose BUT because you don't drag shit out, you manage to turn a blood bath into a narrow loss and keep most of your people in power, which also grants you the ability to bullshit an aliance with a rival party to create a coalition government and keep power that way.

It's one of those things that is akin to bluffing in poker. You rarely call a snap election from a position of strength but from a position of weakness designed to call the public out and call their bluff in wanting you gone and praying the public are cowardly shits who don't really want change.