Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

[Bofferbrauer2]

Ryuu96 said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

The biggest problem with this is now how France is going to govern. Not having a majority in the Assemblée is akin to an American president whose party is in the minority both on the House and Senate, making it very hard to govern or getting anything done really.

There are already some talks about Macron's party Ensemble potentially making a deal with the PS (Party Socialiste, center-left) and potentially also Les Républicains (The Republicans, center-right) if the seats from the PS won't suffice to get above 289 seats and an absolute majority, but with a more left-leaning bend going forward.

Predictably, the RN is already calling the result "undemocratic".

Yes, now it's on Macron to not fuck things up, which I'm not that confident in, Lol.

Far as I'm aware, only RN is adamantly in favour of limiting Ukraine's support, as long as Macron stays away from those twats, I don't like seeing them have that many seats still but overall good news, the left united when it mattered and pulled off a great feat, Macron's gamble backfired on him and RN got far less seats than projected.

He wanted to avoid a RN government, and he got what he wished.

The biggest problem between the NFP (Nouveau Front Populaire, the left-wing alliance in this election) and Macron's Ensemble! coalition is that the NFP has some parties that are considered unsavory, mainly the LFI (La France Insoumise, France unbowed, a left-wing populist party) and the PCF (Parti Communiste Français, French communist party), the former mostly because it's somewhat Eurosceptic and in that regard not much better than the RN, though for different reasons (Nationalism for the RN, anti-Imperialism for LFI).

If they manage to set those differences aside, then Macron basically got everything he wanted - his policies will just skew much more to the left instead to the right like they did in the last years.