Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

[Ryuu96]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Ryuu96 said:

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.

What I read from some is that Macron wanted RN in the PM spot to expose how incompetent they are in time for the next French Presidential elections and isn't particularly a fan of many in the left, has he not lost seats from this gamble too? Ah well, I hope you're right and he does skew more to the left, either way I'm happy with RN performing way worse than projected.

It feels like the biggest winners were the Left Alliance.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 07 July 2024