2022 French legislatives

[Velasco]

RN candidate Melanie Fortier has "a moment of hesitation" when asked about her party's policies on public services. "Can we cut this?"

https://twitter.com/2022Elections/status/1523614056602832896?t=cwBJSkvlsxfHEtSBX...

[Velasco]

What a terrible setback! I thought Emmanuel Macron was planning to appoint Manuel Valls PM, in order to boost the second presidency

More seriously,  regardless of whether Valls is disgusting, he played a role in Barcelona preventing a separatist mayor took over and allowing Ada Colau to remain. Had Albert Rivera listened to him and the former Cs leader could have been the most powerful man in Spain.

Adieu Manu

[Velasco]

Is there any chance of the other parties under the Macronist specter betraying Dear Leader or are all of them basically non-entities?

Horizons is the personal vehicle of Edouard Philippe and there are definitely rumours that Macron's political vehicle were very reluctant to give the ex-PM a political space. I highly doubt they leave the majority but they follow their own Dear Leader, not Macron's inner circle.

Worrh noting that, alongside the demise of the traditional Gaullist and Socialist artifacts, the main political groups in French politics are personal vehicles: EM/Ensemble £Macron), FN/RN (Le Pen) and LFI/NUPES (Mélenchon). I mean, the former vehicles of De Gaulle and Miterrand were apparently more resembling of proper political organizations