The Times of Israel – June 20, 2022
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday lost his parliamentary majority after major election gains by a newly formed left-wing alliance and a surge from the far right, in a stunning blow to his plans for major second-term reform.
The result from Sunday’s second round poll threw French politics into turmoil, raising the prospect of a paralyzed legislature or messy coalitions with Macron forced to reach out to new allies.
Macron, 44, now also risks being distracted by domestic problems as he seeks to play a prominent role in putting an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and as a key statesman in the EU.
Macron’s “Together” coalition will still be the biggest party in the next National Assembly. But with 245 seats, according to full interior ministry results announced in the early hours of Monday, it is well short of the 289 seats needed for a majority in the 577-member chamber.
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party made huge gains and will send 89 MPs to the new parliament, up from eight in the previous parliament, making it the biggest rightwing force in parliament ahead of the traditional right The Republicans (LR).
Le Pen, who lost to Macron in the presidential election, was re-elected as MP in her stronghold of Hénin-Beaumont, in northern France.
“The Macron adventure has reached its end,” Le Pen said. The group of National Rally lawmakers “will be by far the biggest of the history of our political family.”
Acting National Rally president Jordan Bardella compared his party’s showing to a “tsunami.” “Tonight’s message is that the French people made from Emmanuel Macron a minority president,” he said on TF1 television.
Le Pen has for years sought to distance herself from the antisemitic legacy of her political group and her father, with mixed success. In 2017, Le Pen faced criticism for denying that France was responsible for its role in rounding up French Jews for deportation to Nazi death camps.
The National Front has made considerable electoral gains since Le Pen became its leader in 2011, succeeding her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, a Holocaust revisionist and openly antisemitic nationalist. The party advocates pulling out of the European Union, stopping immigration from Muslim countries and imposing limitations on religious freedoms, as well as harsh punishments for violence and incitement.
Marine Le Pen kicked out her father from the party in 2015 following his conviction for inciting racial hatred against Jews. (He suggested a Jewish singer critical of the party be “put in the oven.”) She has kicked out several party members for antisemitic rhetoric.
The new left-wing coalition NUPES under 70-year-old hard-left figurehead Jean-Luc Melenchon won 135 seats, according to an AFP count based on the results published by the ministry.
The coalition, formed in May after the left splintered for April’s presidential elections, brings together Socialists, the hard left, Communists and greens.
Melenchon called Sunday’s results “above all an electoral failure” for Macron.
“The rout of the presidential party is total and there will be no majority” in parliament, he told cheering supporters in Paris.
A prominent MP from Melenchon’s party, Alexis Corbiere, said the result meant Macron’s plan to raise the French retirement age to 65 had been “sunk.”
Failure for Macron
“This situation constitutes a risk for our country, given the challenges that we have to confront,” Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said in a televised statement, vowing: “We will work from tomorrow to build a working majority.”
The outcome severely tarnished Macron’s April presidential election victory when he defeated the far-right to be the first French president to win a second term in over two decades.
“It’s a turning point for his image of invincibility,” said Bruno Cautres, a researcher at the Centre for Political Research of Sciences Po.
Le Monde daily headlined on its website: “Macron faces the risk of political paralysis,” while the Le Figaro daily said the results raised the specter of a “stillborn new mandate”.
Macron had hoped to stamp his second term with an ambitious program of tax cuts, welfare reform and raising the retirement age. All that is now in question.
“This will complicate the reforms… It will be much more difficult to govern,” said Dominique Rousseau, professor of law at Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne University.
“The slap,” said the headline in the left-leaning Liberation’s Monday edition, adding the results represented the “fall” of Macron’s way of governing.
There could now potentially be weeks of political deadlock as the president seeks to reach out to new parties.
The most likely option would be an alliance with the Republicans, the traditional party of the French right, which has 61 MPs.
LR president Christian Jacob however made clear there would be no easy partnership, saying his party intended to “stay in opposition.”
Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire denied that France would be ungovernable but admitted “a lot of imagination would be needed” from the ruling party in an “unprecedented situation”.
Macron had called on voters to hand his coalition a “solid majority” last week, adding “nothing would be worse than adding French disorder to the world disorder.”
In another blow, key ministers standing for election were set to lose their jobs under a convention that they should resign if they fail to win seats.
Health Minister Brigitte Bourguignon, Maritime Minister Justine Benin and Environment Minister Amelie de Montchalin — a pillar of Macron’s administration over the last years — all lost and will now exit the government.
Two other close Macron allies, parliament speaker Richard Ferrand and former interior minister Christophe Castaner, both acknowledged defeat in the fight for their seats.
In a rare spot of good news for the president, Europe Minister Clement Beaune and Public Service Minister Stanislas Guerini — both young pillars of his party — won tight battles for their seats.
On the left, Rachel Keke, a former cleaning lady who campaigned for better working conditions at her hotel, was also elected, defeating Macron’s former sports minister Roxana Maracineanu.
Nothing to see here.
Le Penn is not like her father. She’s a pseudo-nationalist. She’s a Zionist and only where she is because she capitulates to the Jew, unlike her father who saw them clearly as the enemy. I’m amazed French nationalists do not see this.
They need to either remove Le Penn or create a new nationalist party, specifically catering to anti Jewish policy.
Once you remove the jew from your land, or at least remove them from their power and influence, the rest falls into place. Politicians can then make policy to start repatriating immigrants and non whites. They can then take back the school education system from the far left. They can end the LGBTQ nonsense…
All of the depravity and wrong that exists within the west (and most of the world) is being held together by glue that is the Jew.
Controlled opposition. Griffin tried to create a Le Pen style nationalist franchise with his own family in the BNP.
If she was truly a real alternative she would not be leader. Gigantic honeypot operation. All major political parties are controlled by the funny handshake, and the smaller ones that gain any prominence are all infiltrated by the intelligence services. There are no shortage of idealists who will be seduced though.
It seems like a Vedic aphorism, but the path of knowledge is certainly superior to the path of action in politics. But the path of action is the one to take for people who cheer lead for Farage et all; at least they will learn first-hand about the crooked nature of party politics.
This is the first real visible sign that Europe, and the UK are going to the far right and even further.
Please note, Le Pen doesn’t get a mention until paragraph 5!!!
I don’t think Le Pen is far right enough for what’s coming. Maybe she will quickly revert to her old ways, and some more. Eventually most of Europe will become Nazified, but the thicko sheeple won’t see it, until its too late and we have another Hitler type with affiliates in other states.
The system is already in place, its called, or best described, as the technocratic neo-feudal fascist system, which is the NWO, but will appear to be an organically growing entity. A bit like BLM, Antifa, and ER.
We are going to see the NWO morph into a very nasty right wing system. As I tap away, the thicko sheeple are being primed for it, and those who don’t tow the line in Europe and the UK, we’ll be shipped off to FEMA camps in the US, a bit like it’s acceptable to ship sheeple to Rwanda.
The euphoric effects of central bank money printing have caused the sustained rise of insane left lunatic policjes. The rise of the right and common sense is taking a while to coalesce from lunatic left policies of immigration, welfare, anti-capitalism, anti-freedom vaxx.
If a politician robs Peter to pay Paul, he can count on Paul’s vote. The Liberal Socialist Democrats know this and they try to buy off the biggest amount to stay in power, But when the crash comes their fortunes reverse.
So if the system crashes – which means Amerika has to crash then Europe follows, then Europe will be right back in 1932 looking for far right leaders. Amerika is currently throwing Europe under the bus – feeding Ukraine then more European states into the Russian bear war grinder so it will stay on top.
Europeans are damn fools to follow pedo Biden.
The upwave is followed by a downwave, you can follow this progress by simply looking at a stock chart
go to bigcharts,com,
enter ticker XX:SXXP (STOXX Europe 600 Index (INDEX))
or Fench bourse
FR:PX1
CAC 40 Index (INDEX)
or german stocks dx:dax
If and when stocks crash like 1929 to 1932 expect huge gains for the far right or nationalists.
Welcome to your Jewocracy masquerading as a ‘democracy’. This Semitic system can be extrapolated to all ‘western democracies’ of the world, where the moronic white masses persist in voting for the State controlled parties/candidates in rigged elections unaware of the scam. Nothing will ever change or improve for the whites, because its ruled from the top (Oligarchy) by an anti-white Jewish cabal & not from the bottom (democracy).
this 50 years slow rising of french
right Le Pen movement i dont wish
for germany ! Deutschland must be
ruined by lefts,greens,antifas,gretas,
WEF Young Global Leaders+perverts
TO THE GROUND. there is no other
way ! there is no time anymore for 50
years .
(aka) chewing the chewed..
In the UK, the marxist dominated BBC was deperately trying to play down the swing to Le Pen. It even tried to portray it as a swing to the Left – classic Doublethink.
The left has always been about class struggle and taking back some of the gains the labour force produces. The current leaders of once-leftist parties not only will have nothing to do with class warfare, they’re from the class the left used to fight. All this “the left is in charge and is screwing us over” is clueless bollux.
Wanting White people to continue to exist is the biggest sin in Jewish eyes, and “Far Right” is one of their slurs for it, as it is with Carl Jones and his Pole Reversals and micronovas
White Elephant.. As a Frenchman, I have to say that unfortunately, you are 100% correct !
More waffle hoping to shore up the collapsing ‘voting makes a difference and now we’re really worried’ psyop.
Marine is, as others here have astutely posted, not a patch on her pere.
Grovel to the chosenites and get a lifelong gig as the bogeyman..er woman.
Were she instead to call for the burning of the synagogues and masonic halls, then maybe French nationalists faith might not be misplaced in Ms Le Pen