French elections update

[Dr. Who]

I di elsewhere.

Basically it is the response to stupid $#@!. I will not invest my time with silly crap. My zen deserves better.

And I really recommend the meditation apps for people. You have to zero out the tone of the news. It is not healthy.

Ah, so c. is short for crap.

[Ethereal]

Hearing the EU anthem when Macron took the podium made ma almost teary eyed. The wave of xenophobic nationalist populism is over. It was quite a ride. Next up: Germany.

You were crying for the wrong reasons. The EU is a big step on the march towards globalism and the erasure of cultural identity.

[Peter1469]

You were crying for the wrong reasons. The EU is a big step on the march towards globalism and the erasure of cultural identity.

And decidedly non-democratic.

[Peter1469]

It looks like there will be a majority for Macron's new party.

Emmanuel Macron's party is set to win the biggest parliamentary majority for a French president since Charles de Gaulle's 1968 landslide, a survey of voter intentions for the coming legislative elections showed on Tuesday.
Such a majority would give Macron's government a strong mandate to push ahead with economic reforms, starting with a pro-business overhaul of France's labor code, a notoriously difficult area of policy to agree with trade unions.
(For a graphic on Election, click tmsnrt.rs/2rWjPPp)
Macron's centrist Republic On The Move (LREM) party, which launched in April last year and has revolutionized the French political scene, was seen scoring 29.5 percent of the vote in the June 11 first round, the Ipsos Sopra-Steria poll found.
With a solid lead ahead of other parties, LREM would go on to win 385-415 seats out of 577 in the lower house of parliament in a June 18 second round of voting, the poll showed.

[Peter1469]

Macron pulled it off. His new party has a majority and now they can make policy without forming alliances.

French President Emmanuel Macron pulled off something extraordinary in 2017. At the beginning of January, he was a 39-year-old maverick politician with a roguish smile and no institutional backing from the country’s dominant political parties. Six months later, he is France’s unlikely 39-year-old head of state and — as the results of Sunday’s final parliamentary vote indicated — the architect of an astonishing dismantling and remaking of the country's political establishment.

Macron's Republic on the Move party, which was only formed last year, was projected to win at least 355 of 577 seats in Parliament — a commanding majority. The center-right Republicans will be his main opposition, albeit with a shrunken total of about 125 seats. The center-left Socialists, France's ruling party until a few weeks ago, suffered a ruinous and perhaps fatal collapse, losing hundreds of seats and emerging with just about 48 members in Parliament.

[Bo-4]

"Trumpslide"?



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