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July 2024: Protests sweep Paris

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Protests sweep Paris as humiliated Macron is DEFEATED by Le Pen's National Rally in election first round: President's allies say hard right 'stands at the gates of power' and there are 'seven days to stop catastrophe' ahead of second round



Rioting engulfed the streets of Paris last night as thousands of enraged left-leaning voters set light to rubbish, smashed up shop windows and launched fireworks after Marine Le Pen's RN steamed to victory with 33% of the first round vote.

The hard right sure sounds like the bad guys in France.

Mod edit to clarify which specific French riots we're talking about here, given it happens from time to time :) - Milnet.ca staff
 
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Hopefully this unrest doesn't bleed into the Olympics.
 
Sounds like a lot of the French are fed up with the Lefts management of things like the economy and immigration. Keeping in mind the French have been the only country to riot over the definition of bread, most riot over the lack of it.
 
I expect the same will happen in the other EU countries having elections. Indications are more right leaning governments are positioned to take over. I also expect to see riots if Trump wins. The question there, will be how bad they are. If co-opted by the likes of antifa, they could be really bad.
 
Gazas are being setup all over Europe, it’s only a matter of time before the locals are fed up.
 
Sounds like a lot of the French are fed up with the Lefts management of things like the economy and immigration. Keeping in mind the French have been the only country to riot over the definition of bread, most riot over the lack of it.

When you are as far left as many western Gov's have become anything to right becomes extreme.

I am excited to see what the National Party can do for France. Bon Chance! And if they suck, the French will have a chance to replace them in a couple/few years.
 
All of this vaguely reminds me of descriptions of the lead-up to England's 1688 "Glorious Revolution". Governments are failing to adequately manage challenges presented by changes driven by technology and economics; the parties who think they're in control attempt to move change in the directions that suit themselves and it turns out that the people disagree.
 
I think this was predicted about a week ago.
That a left coalition would win? I’m pretty sure most people (myself included) thought that Le Pen and the NP was going to win this after the first round.

A last minute drop of candidates to avoid vote splitting seems to have changed that.
 
That's what was being predicted. I'm sure I saw it a few times on my social media pages.
Oh maybe, but most people thought it was a forgone conclusion that the RN would still win despite those last minute efforts.

It’s being described as an upset and was unexpected.

This isn’t still good for Macron and the centrists but it seems that France rejected Le Pen for now as they ended in third place. A year with the leftists will probably be an unstable one. So either Le Pen Rallies then or the centrists regain control.
 
There is positives here for Le Pen and crew, they gained 53 seats and earned the most of any single party by way of popular vote. And if the gaming the game hadn't gone on it probably would have ended differently.

Either way, the momentum still resides with Le Pen I would reckon. I feel like we may see this sooner happen again sooner than later.
 
There is positives here for Le Pen and crew, they gained 53 seats and earned the most of any single party by way of popular vote. And if the gaming the game hadn't gone on it probably would have ended differently.

Either way, the momentum still resides with Le Pen I would reckon. I feel like we may see this sooner happen again sooner than later.
It will likely be a hung parliament for a year (French electoral law apparently states that another election can only happen in a year in that case).

I suspect a year of economic turmoil will only help Le Pen.
 
Very exciting - confusing of course because: 'France' ;)

Le Pen has been defeated by the left, but who will govern France? Our panel responds​



At least one thing is clear: the French people do not want the extreme right in government. The National Rally (RN) had never been so close to the gates of power. After the first round of elections a week ago, Jordan Bardella, Marine Le Pen’s 28-year-old protege, was being talked about as Emmanuel Macron’s future prime minister. To everyone’s surprise, everything was reversed between the two rounds.

While Marine Le Pen has succeeded in “de-demonising” the party founded by her father, the rebranding is clearly not enough to make voters forget that the RN is not an ordinary political party, that it has never rejected its history or broken with a xenophobic ideology rooted in the extreme right through supporters of the Vichy regime and French Algeria.

But the relief felt by a majority of French people is a delusion. The national assembly is ungovernable, divided into three almost equal blocs that are more hostile to each other than ever before, and none of which is in a position to impose itself.

Emmanuel Macron will no doubt argue that he won his election gamble. But he has not won – he has lost his political power. The centre of gravity has shifted from the Élysée palace to the national assembly, which is now in gridlock and can no longer be reelected for a year.

There are no winners. The RN may have doubled its seats; it did not win the majority that was within its grasp. The president’s centrist alliance may not have disappeared, but it has lost the relative majority it had. The New Popular Front, made up of a motley alliance of leftwing parties, certainly came out on top, but it has no leader, no majority and no common objectives. The radicalism of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his party, France Unbowed (LFI), is a repellent for many others.

France is on borrowed time. The barrage (wall) against the far right by a cobbled-together opposition will feed the resentment of RN voters who feel like victims of deals done between friends. If the “republican front” parties fail to build constructive coalitions, they will be proving Le Pen right. She declared on Sunday evening: “The tide continues to rise” and “Our victory is only postponed”. France avoided the worst, but the price is chaos and a time bomb.

 
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