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Macron wins shock vote to keep coalition hopes alive

Emmanuel Macron’s party formed a last–minute agreement with right-leaning lawmakers to win a key vote in parliament on Thursday that opens the door to the French president playing a greater-than-expected role in forming the country’s next government.

The two political groups put together an ad-hoc alliance to reelect Yaël Braun-Pivet as head of the French National Assembly, the fourth highest-ranking official in France. The vote was widely seen as a test to see who could work together in France’s fractured parliament to name a future prime minister.

In combining their forces, the centrists and the center right seized political momentum while also delivering a stunning blow to their rivals further to the left.

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notsure ,
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When the left finally understands compromise, we shall save the human race about 50 years too late.../s?

FlorianSimon , (edited )

You chose the worst example to illustrate this. The left aligned and agreed on an ambitious list of reforms in record time, and they beat the far-right because of it. The biggest party in the leftist coalition withdrew a lot of candidates to keep the far-right out of power, and succeeded.

A left-wing alliance with Macron is impossible. If the left is supposed to do politics like right-wingers, what is even the point?

conditional_soup ,

Wow. Just wow. I shouldn’t be surprised, but I’m nonetheless amazed that they’d rather flee into the arms of the far right fascists than try to work with the left. Incredible.

ceenote , (edited )

I can’t find the interview, but a week or so ago, a Democrat congressman admitted that Joe Biden didn’t gain the Democrat nomination in 2020 because he was the best choice to beat Donald Trump. He won the nomination because he was the best choice to beat Bernie Sanders.

There are genuine, good-faith moderate centrist voters, but at the higher levels of government, there aren’t any good-faith, genuine moderate centrist politicians. They work for their wealthy donors, and they know it.

Edit: Found it, quote is at ~7:20

gravitas_deficiency ,

Definitely interested to see that article if you can track it down.

ceenote ,

Here is the interview, the quote is at ~7:20

timbuck2themoon ,

But that really doesn’t matter because the primary voters chose Biden.

ceenote , (edited )

Bernie was winning handily until half the field dropped out and endorsed Biden right before Super Tuesday, which is when Biden started winning. Pretending he just won in a purely fair and honest race is silly, we all saw the collusion.

And if you’re referring to the 2024 primary, pretending that was a real race is even more silly.

timbuck2themoon ,

So he didn’t win in a head to head. How about that?

He LOST. I say this as someone who voted for him even when my state didn’t matter. He wasn’t the most popular candidate. End of story.

Stop feeling sorry for yourselves.

Until progressives get more popular or show the fuck up, they’ll continue losing.

ceenote ,

I said the Democrat leadership chose him. You said that doesn’t matter because he won the primary. I said he won the primary in part because Democrat leadership chose him, and here’s how. I never complained. What they did wasn’t cheating or illegal, and I don’t think it should be.

No need to project a bunch of feelings onto me.

febra ,

Funny how quickly liberals will jump into the right’s arms just so they won’t need to hurt the interests of their rich owners by entering a coalition with the left.

Deceptichum ,
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Centrists are just right-wingers at the end of the day.

NaibofTabr ,

And extremists are just extremists at the end of the day.

Deciding that you’re too good for centrists is the same thing as deciding that you never want to accomplish anything politically. You’re all talk and no practice.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

You don’t know what words mean. Including your so-called “centrism”

Deceptichum ,
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I’ll gladly be an extreme leftist, at least I fucking stand for something beyond folding to the right every chance I get.

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The two political groups put together an ad-hoc alliance to reelect Yaël Braun-Pivet as head of the French National Assembly, the fourth highest-ranking official in France.

The vote was widely seen as a test to see who could work together in France’s fractured parliament to name a future prime minister.

In combining their forces, the centrists and the center right seized political momentum while also delivering a stunning blow to their rivals further to the left.

The dramatic vote came just 11 days after the New Popular Front (NFP), a broad alliance of left-wing parties, secured a surprise victory in this summer’s snap election, winning the most seats but falling far short of an outright majority.

The conservatives have publicly rejected the prospect of an outright coalition with the pro-Macron camp, but they have steadily signaled their openness to finding common ground on policy — putting forward a “legislative package” focused on policies aimed at “better recognizing work and restoring authority.”

The alliance’s bickering and infighting prevented it from rallying behind a single candidate for prime minister, and even agreeing on Chassaigne — a congenial and well-respected parliamentarian — required negotiations that lasted until the day before the vote.

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