2022 French legislatives

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Coalition talk between LFI and PS, LFI and EELV and generally all of them are hilarious as usual. I would be shocked if there will be any deal with LFI.

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Btw. are talks also including regionalist parties, Corsican or Breton ones?

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Nationwide results: 55% counted

24.1% Ensemble
21.8% NUPES
21.7% RN
11.3% LR
  3.9% DG
  3.8% Reconquête !
  3.1% DD
  2.3% Ecologists
  1.9% Regional parties
  1.5% DC
  1.2% Sovereign parties
  3.4% Others

47.3% Turnout

So basically an overperformance for RN and LR? That is certainly not what I expected.

France has a massive counting bias in favor of smaller municipalities and "peripheral" areas. Now we're at 80% counted and still nothing has come in from Paris and the Petite Couronne. Until they start reporting, you can't really discuss the national results.

Other thing that national results are kinda useless.

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Morbihan 4th (Brittany)

Paul MOLAC *
rég. 21 900 -37,65 %

Rozenn GUEGAN
Hor.-Ens. 10 624 -18,26 %

*apparently elected as LREM in 2017???

Molac was first elected in 2012, at the time with the support of EELV and the PS, and reelected by the first round as the LREM candidate. In his first term, he initially sat in the ecolo group, but was part of the more 'right-wing' (pro-Flanby govt.) faction and quit the group in 2016 to join the Socialist group. In his second term, he quit the LREM group in 2018, after dissenting with the majority (from the left) on several major issues, and formed the catch-all 'Libertés et territoires' group (which included the three Corsican nationalists as well as Jean Lassalle, Olivier Falorni).

At the time of his first election in 2012, he was a member of the centre-left regionalist party Union démocratique bretonne (UDB), traditionally the 'strongest' of the Breton regionalist movements and historically allied with EELV and the left. He seems to have left the UDB in 2017 but declared himself attached to the regionalist coalition Régions et peuples solidaires (R&PS) for political financing purposes. In the regional council of Brittany, he leads a three-member regionalist group in the governing (PS-left) majority, alongside notably Christian Troadec, having been reelected last year on the PS-left list in Morbihan.

Good guy, would definitely have voted for him.

Well, he is a person behind "loi Molac", so at least in a field of minorities right he did a lot of well needed stuff. Unfortunately, I have not paid attention regarding what happened to loi Molac after those constitutional shenanigans in 2021, so I don't know if there was anything salvaged from that effort.