Macron rules out naming leftist prime minister, prolonging political crisis
French President Emmanuel Macron ruled out naming a prime minister from the leftist New Popular Front alliance and will instead start a new round of consultations on Tuesday with parties to try to form a new government, Macron's office said.
"See! You voted for the left, but they don't solve your problems because we won't let them!"
One of the most popular strategies in Europe... Followed by total confusion when neither that 'ineffective' left nor the obstructionist center to center right gets votes anymore and the far-right rises.
This clown said "My responsibility is that the country is neither blocked nor weakened. Government political parties must not forget the exceptional circumstances to the election of their deputies in the second round of the legislative elections. [...]"
What an hypocrite
L'État, c'est moi.
Man, this is the kind of shit the Greek Constitution gets right. It defines a very strict order of assignment of potential prime ministers and strict and tight deadlines for them to try to get a vote of confidence, with new elections called if it doesn't work out for them.
Mind you, the original 1974 Constitution allowed some "semi-presidential" shenanigans, because Karamanlis was indeed inspired by France, but the 1986 amendment did away with them.
A problem of his own making. His "center" party could work together with the NFP, but just chose not to.
Most main figures or the center parties came out of the bush and admitted they wouldn't work with a Left government, even after its most radical component (LFI) proposed not playing an active role in this hypothetical government
The problem is the "left government" has adopted the most radical component's entire program (except on nuclear energy and some foreign topics).
If a different minister passes the same "we will tax all french abroad and raises marginal tax to 90%" law, doesn't really changes anything to the bottom line.
The left also doesn't want to work with his party. Both Mélenchon and Castes have made it clear it would be their program and only their program and that they would not ally with the presidential party which they blame for everything wrong.
That's because his party is not remotely center
Ok, so my interpretation is that Macron fully expected to be naming Le Pen as the prime minister when calling the election. Right now he begrudgingly submits random other names. Someone please tell me I am wrong.
I think he expected for the people to grudgeingly rally behind his party to prevent le Pen. They rallied behind the left instead.
Sounds astonishingly reasonable but your user name says otherwise. ;)
With our current two-round election system and a fragmented left landscape, the far-right gamble has worked wonders for Macron and the center-right in the past. I'm so glad they fucked up even if for just this one time.
And now he's vindicated their choice.
The left didn't increase its score from past election (about 25-30% of votes). The difference is they went united.
But technically the far right got the most votes and only cross party agreements with the centre and right avoided a far right dominated parliament.