The left won but it didn’t have an absolute majority, not even close, macron got second place and the far right got third. Ultimately, the president has to appoint a prime-minister (a government) to be approved by the parliament.
How it usually goes in france is that even if the president is not of the same party as the largest party in parliament, he’ll still appoint a PM from that party and you have what’s called “co-habitation” between the president and government sharing power.
Macron instead of doing that made a deal with the far-right to get their votes in appointing a center-right (not from the far-right party) prime-minister instead. So, ultimately yeah he probably has the right to do that legally but when you see people calling that outrageous they’re making a political statement that macron preferred to share power with the far right than with the left
The outrageous part is that Macron was using the left/socdem front party to stop them getting seats, and then turns around and forms government with them
134 NFP and 82 Ensemble candidates withdrew despite qualifying for the run-off in order to reduce the RN’s chances of winning an absolute majority of seats
How does that work? What’s the point of a parliment if the president just appoints whoever they want?
The left won but it didn’t have an absolute majority, not even close, macron got second place and the far right got third. Ultimately, the president has to appoint a prime-minister (a government) to be approved by the parliament.
How it usually goes in france is that even if the president is not of the same party as the largest party in parliament, he’ll still appoint a PM from that party and you have what’s called “co-habitation” between the president and government sharing power.
Macron instead of doing that made a deal with the far-right to get their votes in appointing a center-right (not from the far-right party) prime-minister instead. So, ultimately yeah he probably has the right to do that legally but when you see people calling that outrageous they’re making a political statement that macron preferred to share power with the far right than with the left
My norms!
He just wants normal beer!
The outrageous part is that Macron was using the left/socdem front party to stop them getting seats, and then turns around and forms government with them
to give an illusion of democratic representation while making sure the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie always has a veto on movement to the left
Spectacle, bread and circuses
the fifth republic orbits around the president (no surprise, it was created by de Gaulle), it’s not a real parliamentary system
It’s called the illsuion of choice.