That's a results map from France's EU parliamentary election.
The brown parts are the far right parties.
I don't know exactly what this means, or what I'm talking about on this topic for that matter, but it looks like after the election was called, Macron panicked and surrendered and dissolved the entire French parliament, which I think is their equivalent of our house of representatives.
Anybody who knows how any of this works, please jump in and get me off the hook.
Snap election set (I guess? 🤷♂️) for June 30th.
And why the faaaack isn't that dissolving congress thing in the United States Constitution? 😣
I am far from an expert, but the right wing campaigned on (partly) ending mass immigration and returning France to it's economic roots. The populist party under Le Pen was polling at almost 32%, double Macron's party in the upcoming national elections. Rather than be humiliated and forcibly voted out of office Macron tossed in the towel and basically said "fine, vote for your new Parliament now." First stage is on June 30th with the runoffs scheduled for July 7th.
Macron has been losing support over his pushing for unlimited immigration and also for his war mongering attitude towards involving France directly in the Ukrainian war.
I am far from an expert, but the right wing campaigned on (partly) ending mass immigration and returning France to it's economic roots. The populist party under Le Pen was polling at almost 32%, double Macron's party in the upcoming national elections. Rather than be humiliated and forcibly voted out of office Macron tossed in the towel and basically said "fine, vote for your new Parliament now." First stage is on June 30th with the runoffs scheduled for July 7th.
Macron has been losing support over his pushing for unlimited immigration and also for his war mongering attitude towards involving France directly in the Ukrainian war.
I don’t understand it either, and it seems like it should be bigger news than it is.
Looks like Macron is a sore loser.
If MSM reports on something like this.... their followers might start thinking we can change poitical direction here on this side of the pond as well