French National Assembly Elections, 06/30-07/07

[KaiserDave]

I sincerely hope that a Popular Front of all socialist, social democratic, and progressives forces is constituted to oppose the threat of the far-right which Macronisme has clearly proven incapable of addressing.

Question, will R! be included in an alliance with RN and LR? If so, LR may just implode entirely.

[KaiserDave]

Spreading rumors of his resignation if his bloc performs poorly seems to be an obvious electoral strategy by Macron to get his voters out.

[KaiserDave]

What will happen to the MPs from LR who don’t want to be in an alliance with RN? Will they run as independents or will they join/create a party in the Macron bloc?

I wonder whether LR could actually break apart over this dispute? They're already de facto a minority party. The party's right-wing could just join RN while the moderates switch to Macron's camp.

That already seems to be happening, given the reactions to Ciotti's announcements. In theory the party hasn't broken apart yet, but if half of its MPs get elected thanks to RN support and the other half get elected thanks to Macronista support, I have no idea how they could possibly survive that. If your party's MPs belong to different electoral coalitions, you don't have a party.

Spreading rumors of his resignation if his bloc performs poorly seems to be an obvious electoral strategy by Macron to get his voters out.

He's doing the opposite, though. He explicitly denied he would resign.

I didn’t know that, maybe he should consider doing it anyway.

[KaiserDave]

I love the French.

[KaiserDave]

LR mainstream showed rare courage, they would prefer irrelevance to alliance with the devil. I am assuming it is due to pride.

[KaiserDave]

Poutou of NPA is standing in Carcassonne. Fitting choice as the city has a history with weird religious fanatics.

Poutou is the best politician in France.