Political earthquake in France after European elections
I think this deserves it's own thread
Absolutely unexpected snap elections called in France because of the exceptional success of Le Pen party (exit polls only for now) in the European elections
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French President Emmanuel Macron has dissolved the National Assembly and called a snap election after an exit poll predicted his party would suffer a heavy defeat at the hands of the far-right.
Speaking after exit polls put Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally ahead of the governing camps, he said the outcome is "not good result for parties who defend Europe".
Projected results from France put Ms Le Pen's party around 33%, with 31 seats in the incoming European Parliament - more than double the score of Mr Emmanuel Macron's liberals back on 15%.
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Too understand France one must understand that if the 6th of January 2021 attacks had happened in France, they'd have called it a Wednesday.
Since the Republic's inception some 225 years ago, France has gone through time as the 1st republic, dictatorship, empire, monarchy, constitutional monarchy, 2nd republic, empire, 3rd republic, partial socialist commune and a country in revolt, under occupation and ruled by a collaborationist fascist regime (and a government in exile), 4th republic, ruled by threat of military coup, and finally the 5th republic.
Where other countries grow tired of their politicians and they slowly whittle away, France is a country of large dramatic political shifts and swings that puts heroes in power and a few terms later dethrones them as villains.
It's just more of the same excitable hyperbabble.
That a "fully powered" (voted by parliament and with powers to deal with more than strictly only current affairs) government is less useful and less necessary than people think it is, given countries can work without one, as proven by France right now and by many other european countries many times.
The Netherlands has been without a (fully powered) government for more than 150 days this year. They voted november 22 2023, a very hung parliament came out of that vote, parties discussed coalitions for months, new government was sworn in July of this year.
Belgian once stayed 652 days without a government. And that included the first waves of covid in 2020
So the point is, we have proof that there is too much state, given when it's powers get vastly reduced (by lack of political agreement) life continues as normal for people. The optimal amount of state in society of course being, the absolute minimum required to run society smoothly.
Are you saying there is someone in the world who thought olympics wouldn't happen if there was no governement for a month (which isn't the case btw) ?
Or are you just writing platitudes to get some wins?
