Why France Can't Form a New Government

France is ungovernable laughs in Belgian

It looks like 2024 is the year in which a lot of electoral systems will be questioned

Fuck it, congratulations Kylian Mbappe for your new role as Prime minister

It's worth noting that while the NFP has achieved a major victory, it is the RN that benefits from Gridlock. They are possibly the largest anti establishment party in France, and the strategy of the Republican Front only boosts this image.

Is this the famous Macron master stroke that everyone kept telling me about?

What the hell is going on with Macron's hair in the thumbnail lol

France is going back to the 1945/6/7/8/9 when their Governments changed almost monthly.

I think long term this is great for RN because tough decisions about budgets after to be made and the poltical mess that this will entail will allow RB to blame both the centrists and the left for the economic chaos that ensues.

Time for France to experience what Bulgarians are going through

Alternative intro: with PM Gabriel Attal's finger firmly pressed on the eject button...

Table is back!

2:29 This is misleading. The percentages are skewed towards parties who don't desist in the second round and thus can get vote in a lot more places.

2 days ago: French politics is the craziest in the world right now Today, the USA: Hold my beer!

The chances of the NFP staying together for more than 3 - 6 months is extremely doubtful...

This mess all started because people are fed up with centrists ignoring their needs in favour of international issues. First in the EU parliamentary election and then on the national level in France. If Macron attempts to install a centrist led coalition then that animosity towards centrists is going to get worse and drive voters to even greater extremes.

It's very rich to hear the NFP claim they deserve to form a government with less than 180 MPs, while they were the first ones to argue that the presidential coalition was unfit to govern with their 245 MPs back in 2022...

So a few additional informations here : It is worth saying for future reference, that the results can be interpreted in two ways, the first and most obvious one is that there are now 3 factions in the assembly, being the centrist liberals of Ensemble, often called Macronists, the broad left united under the NFP, with LFI (France Unbowed) being the most prominent one and technically the one that's the most on the left, and the far right RN party, which is the single most popular party on the National assembly, however the other reading we can make of this result is that the assembly is in majority against the RN, since the reason we came in this gridlock to begin with, is because of the "Front Républicain" where Macronists and Leftists that came in third place delisted themselves in favor of the candidate that had the most chances to beat the RN candidate, and i think this read is more telling than we make it to be France as of now still is divided between giving the RN a chance, and not letting them get in power, and that struggle will only be moore clear in next presidential elections, where Macron can't run a third time, so unless the Macronists stay united and find a successor to Macron, they will likely be on third place, if they stay united even, else they'll have the same situation as the left in 2022 elections Either way this election is a lost opportunity for RN to govern, but still a win for them since they're a single party that has a third of the assembly These elections also got rid of the eventuality of having a fractured far right, since the other far right party "Reconquête" got absolutely soloed and didn't even get a single seat if im not mistaken To summarize, we have a far right that's united and represented by a single party, although still lacking good candidates as we've seen the circus of some RN candidate. A left that's united under the urgency of the situation, mainly the threat of the far right in power, but still squabbling about who should do what. And finally a central block that seems in shambles as they oppose Macrons latest actions, and need to find a suitable candidate for 2027 or else they will be left in the dust by a left slowly growing in popularity, and a far right basically flying over everyone else both in the poles and in the popular votes

1) RN is the biggest party in the elections. It only "lost" because of these coalitions like Ensemble and The Left. 2) These coalitions will have a really hard time forming a government, so who will win because of all this chaos? Yes, RN. So, in the end, RN wins.

Thank you so much for explaining this to me!

Jordan Bardella and RN dodged a missile with the prime minister due to finish a budget in September for Chiefs in EU.