EU French far right obliterates Macron’s camp in EU election - Macron dissolved French parliament following crushing EU election defeat and called fresh legislative elections June 30.

French far right obliterates Macron’s camp in EU election
Politico EU (archive.ph)
By Victor Goury-Laffont
2024-06-09 19:53:39GMT


Jordan Bordella and Marine Le Pen. | Stephane de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images

PARIS — The far right National Rally (RN) is projected to win the European election in France with 31.5 percent of the vote — more than twice the presidential list, a shock result which has pushed President Emmanuel Macron into calling snap elections Sunday evening.

The RN, headed by Jordan Bardella, is set to achieve its highest-ever finish in a nationwide election, while President Emmanuel Macron’s coalition party would register the second-lowest EU election finish ever for a party in French government.

“The president of the republic cannot remain deaf to the message sent this evening by the people of France,” Bardella said in front his supporters at the Parc Floral in Paris. The far right leader demanded the president call early legislative elections, pointing to the “unprecedented gap” between the main opposition party and the party in power.

Macron announced that the French National Assembly would be dissolved this month, with new elections set to be held on June 30th.

The pro-Macron list, led by Valérie Hayer, is currently at 15.2 percent — one point ahead of the social democratic list led by Raphaël Glucksmann at 14 percent, according to an estimate by polling institute Ipsos.

The center-left list of Glucksmann rose steadily throughout the campaign, closing the gap with the pro-Macron list, which failed to gather momentum despite French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s strong involvement. “I am proud of what have we achieved, but I don’t feel like celebrating,” Glucksmann said in response to the first estimates. “Everywhere in Europe, we are witnessing a wave that is shaking our democracy.”

The radical left France Unbowed list, led by Manon Aubry, is expected to have bagged 8.7 percent of the vote — roughly 2.5 percentage points above its 2019 finish. The conservative Les Républicains party, meanwhile, is shown receiving 7.2 percent of the tally.

The French Greens and the nationalist Reconquest movement led by Marion Maréchal are both shown around 5 percent — the minimum threshold in France to elect MEPs.

A final tally of the vote will be released later this evening.

 

[Kankichi Ryotsu]

Perhaps precisely for that reason? Because he no longer legitimately represents the country?

Lol, as if that ever stopped anyone. We're ruled by essentially vultures, they don't have a sense of morality or fairness. It's like another poster said, some risky political maneuvering.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

People generally don’t take EU elections seriously, they’re usually low turn out and get a lot of protest votes. The people you vote for go to Brussels and the bureaucrats in Brussels will carry on regardless no matter who you voted for.

He‘s hoping France shits themselves, the left and centre stop fighting, and unite behind him.

It is a very risky tactic and pretty much a rubicon moment for his career.

It'll probably work.

EU elections elect people that literally do nothing.

National elections affect you life. NF will do pretty good but they'll end up second.

 

[Sister Miriam Godwinson]

She's like a hundred years old, that's what up with her. Her kids are like the same age as her husband

Older, actually. Macron is 42 and his stepchildren are 43 and 45. He is the youngest member of his family.

 

[Orc-Chud]

The reason they push immigration is because they think it adds workers.

That’s the cope they will use when it’s the day of the rope. The real answer is that it’s a psychotic attempt at genocide and ending the 3000 year old Jewish blood feud against amalek

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

The sad thing about this that a Trump US and a right leaning/populist EU is fantastic for the UK, but we’re going to end up getting a Labour government which will virtue signal its way into isolation because Twitter will be angry at them.

Ironically if the EU goes more right wing when Labour are in power we will see a near inverse of people's opinions about them. Everyone screaming against Brexit will demand they stop dealing with the fascists and everyone in favour yelling we need to take more hardline stances like them.

BBC did a long list of bullshit around these results, my favourite being the news at around 6 in the morning equating the right wing of French politics with Nazi collaborators (not even hyperbole, that's the parallel they drew) which was a fun reminder of why journalists are scum. My favourite thus far is has been this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv22p9dl415o

In Brussels, at past EU leaders’ summits, Emmanuel Macron has at times been accused of trying to steal the limelight.
He certainly managed that on Sunday night. Although probably not in the way he’d have liked.
As votes for the European Parliament were still being counted, Mr Macron dominated the headlines.
His drubbing in the poll by French hard-right nationalists had been expected. His decision to dissolve France’s national parliament as a result, came as a shock.
He had played with the idea last year, after getting trounced in France’s last general election but few expected this move now.
It’s a huge gamble. From a position of weakness.
Emmanuel Macron describes himself as a centrist and a passionate European.
This snap general election, taking place in two rounds on 30 June and 7 July, could result in him having to work alongside a French prime minister from the Eurosceptic far right.
Marine Le Pen, regularly portrayed as his political nemesis, declared on Sunday that her party was ready to govern.
It’s happened before in France that the president, who is the country’s most powerful politician, and the prime minister, hail from different political parties.
But if the new prime minister were to come from the far right, that would be a first for France.
Marine Le Pen has worked hard in recent years to try to broaden the appeal of her political movement and to soften its extremist image.
She and her supporters hope this significant victory at EU level (her National Rally party garnered more than double the number of votes of President Macron’s Renaissance party) will translate into huge wins in the snap election back home.
Her dream would be that those successes would then bring her, or her hugely popular prodigee, the 28-year-old Jordan Bardella, a big stride closer to eventually becoming French president - something she’s attempted and failed to achieve a number of times before. The next presidential vote in France is scheduled for 2027.


Staying with this election for the European Parliament, the hard right and nationalist right made gains in many parts of the EU, with voters worried about migration, inflation and the cost of environmental reforms.
But whether they will be able to really influence future EU policy is unclear.
The majority of seats in the EU chamber where the bloc’s laws are debated, modified, passed or rejected, remain firmly in the hands of centrist parties.
To affect EU policy, hard-right parties from across the bloc will have to unite, to give them clout.
And that’s a challenge. They have differing national priorities and some deep-seated differences, like how far to support Ukraine against Russia.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8009e2z4xlo
One issue affecting the lives of all EU citizens, that the hard right has already influenced, is environmental reform. It’s a trillions-of-euros priority for the EU which has long been ambitious about wanting to be a world leader in climate action.
But green parties lost a whopping 20 seats in this EU Parliament vote.
EU taxpayers, faced with the cost-of-living crisis, are increasingly nervous, even resistant to new environmental rules, putting them under pressure to purchase a new heating system for their home or a less-polluting car.
Farmers across the EU have staged mass protests about environmental rules they label unfair and ruinous.
The hard right across Europe visibly used their grievances to portray themselves as the voice of the people, standing up to "remote elites" in Brussels and in national government.
The result: under pressure ahead of this EU Parliament vote, a number of EU environmental regulations were watered down or rescinded, including one governing pesticide rules. This weakening of green goals could well be an indication of things to come.
A final thought: When trying to make firm predictions about the kind of power the nationalist right will, or will not, exert in the EU going forward, labels are often not that helpful.
Some hard-right nationalists are becoming more mainstream to woo more voters and increasing numbers of centre-right politicians have been aping the language of the far right on hot button issues like migration and the environment, in an attempt to hold on to supporters.
Overall, the centre-right won the largest number of seats and made the biggest number of gains in the European Parliament.
You might not see that headline all that often though. It’s less eye-catching than a debate about far-right gains.

FAR RIGHT HARD RIGHT FAR RIGHT HARD RIGHT!
Remember labels are unhelpful. BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL THE FAR RIGHT!

 

[FedPostalService]

I wonder how a lot of these basket case European economies are coping now they can’t send their graduates to the UK.

I work with a bunch of southern Europeans and they grew up with the plan to learn English, work in the UK because there was near zero youth employment in Spain/Italy/France/etc., then maybe return one day if they hadn’t married a Brit, and had the experience to waltz into a corporate job.

That’s a lot harder now.

I’m glad I’m off this week as I’d be humming L’Amour Toujour around them.

 

[mister fireworks]

@mister fireworks Need to first answer the question of what the elephant across the Atlantic and Pacific is or isn't going to do. On the plus side FDR is quite happy being Stalin's chamberpot and will try to throw the American industrial might entirely behind Stalin. On the congressional level and the American people however will try to stay neutral however.

Why this matters is with just German and Soviet forces, they're not crossing the Channel to get at England or to England's and France's overseas colonial processions. With which they can play the attritional long game for a while.

Stalin didnt think about the US/FDR at all with respect to German relations prior 1942 . He was more concerned with Japan and how to manage China. His primary concern was dealing with continental Europe and England. Do you really think Stalin and hitler were fretting about if the US congress was going to give the OK for FDR to go to war lol? That wasnt even on the table until the war had been hot for several years. And the anti-aggression pact was signed in 1939. My entire point was that the alliance couldve happened before they officially went to war with each other. Germany and Russia wouldve crossed the channel and taken England in a few months. I dont know which french colonial possessions youre even referring to, but France rolled over and became the German's most enthusiastic collaborators early in the war even without help from Russia, so what remained of the french colonies would've been served up on a platter to germany if they had won the war.

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

Why is Italy somewhat based, then?

It isn't. Cunt Melonhead promised no more boats and instead increased immigration. Italians are all spineless cucks.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

French election shock hits stocks, banks and the euro

https://lite.cnn.com/2024/06/10/investing/french-election-stocks-euro-reaction/index.html

https://archive.ph/xlnIH

What could it all mean?

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

I wonder how a lot of these basket case European economies are coping now they can’t send their graduates to the UK.

You do realize that the UK is a bigger shithole than the EU?

I work with a bunch of southern Europeans and they grew up with the plan to learn English, work in the UK because there was near zero youth employment in Spain/Italy/France/etc.

They don't sound very smart

they hadn’t married a Brit

They're really stupid if they would try and marry a bong.

 

[FedPostalService]

You do realize that the UK is a bigger shithole than the EU?

They don't sound very smart

They're really stupid if they would try and marry a bong.

Then why do they all learn English to come here?

You’re watching too much MATI and ignoring our glorious cheese.

 

[TitusOvid]

I'll believe the "far right" won in France once they actually forcibly expel all the sand niggers and various other shitskins. Recall Italy. Meloni was declared Mussolini Part 2 but she did absolutely fuckall to stop the simian hordes-if anything, she actively made it worse.

This. Meloni was so hyped as the second coming of Mussolini and she has done nothing to stop the invasion. The Italian navy still picks up and brings over as many invaders as they can.

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

Then why do they all learn English to come here?

Cause they are the kind of morons that somehow screwed up free college and think that if they split a crack shack 10 ways and work minimum wage for a decade they will go home and make some great investment. Though after Brexit not even that kind of drop out goes there anymore.

 

[FedPostalService]

Cause they are the kind of morons that somehow screwed up free college and think that if they split a crack shack 10 ways and work minimum wage for a decade they will go home and make some great investment. Though after Brexit not even that kind of drop out goes there anymore.

I’m referring to graduate jobs and not crappy factory work or service industry.

Brexit was pretty good though. I was wondering the fallout in ten years when the middle class saw that their kids couldn’t get jobs after university because you can get a graduate and multilingual pretty Greek girl to work a professional job for the price of an unskilled labourer.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Oh shit, I missed this thread.

 

[Coccxys]

Ironically if the EU goes more right wing when Labour are in power we will see a near inverse of people's opinions about them. Everyone screaming against Brexit will demand they stop dealing with the fascists and everyone in favour yelling we need to take more hardline stances like them.

Everyone on the remain side seemed to conveniently forget that Corbyn and co were the biggest anti-european market voices in Parliament originally. Leftists were the biggest anti-globalisation protesters shitting up every g7 and the like. They realised that globalisation is the biggest threat to the working class and their standards of living.

Then they swallowed globohomo and pretended they always thought globalist dick was their favourite flavour.

 

[FedPostalService]

Everyone on the remain side seemed to conveniently forget that Corbyn and co were the biggest anti-european market voices in Parliament originally. Leftists were the biggest anti-globalisation protesters shitting up every g7 and the like. They realised that globalisation is the biggest threat to the working class and their standards of living.

Then they swallowed globohomo and pretended they always thought globalist dick was their favourite flavour.

Nothing made me lol more than watching people who used “neo-liberal” as their worst insult passionately defending EU membership just because the poors and about 5 people on the right of the Tory party wanted to leave the EU.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Everyone on the remain side seemed to conveniently forget that Corbyn and co were the biggest anti-european market voices in Parliament originally. Leftists were the biggest anti-globalisation protesters shitting up every g7 and the like. They realised that globalisation is the biggest threat to the working class and their standards of living.

Then they swallowed globohomo and pretended they always thought globalist dick was their favourite flavour.

Because Corbyn never outright said he would not stop Brexit they convinced themselves voting Labour would do so. Ignoring the fact that most of his nationalisation plans would not have been possible in the EU.

 

[23 bold flavors]

So apparently 16-24 year old on Germany are leaning more conservative. Look at the growth in AFD! it should be noted 16-17 year olds couldn't vote in the last election. I highly doubt that under 18s had that much of an impact tho. Green support plummeting in the youth.



In baguetteland. The brown are "far right" votes.

 

[Der weiße Teufel]

So apparently 16-24 year old on Germany are leaning more conservative. Look at the growth in AFD! it should be noted 16-17 year olds couldn't vote in the last election. I highly doubt that under 18s had that much of an impact tho. Green support plummeting in the youth.
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In baguetteland. The brown are "far right" votes.
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The Greens are just too embarrassing, full of trannies and idiot women, I don't know who is braindead enough to vote for them. But I've seen lots of comments on social media blaming Tiktok etc. for "brainwashing" young people, because the ruling parties are running out of excuses and would never admit it's their own fault. But their main argument for why you should vote for them was "the others are nazis!!!", quite literally. Just for that, I would never give them my vote.