French Presidential and Legislative Elections 2017-News and Updates

[mike2000 is back]

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Socialist Party 2012 vs 2017. More than 280 constituencies to 29 today. Total obliteration. @Nilgiri @mike2000 is back @LA se Karachi @Philia

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Surprisingly, seems socialism is dead in France while it has been reborn in U.K under the Cobynism mantra.

makes even Bernie Sanders look like a moderate.

 

[LA se Karachi]

With 308 seats,Macron and LREM can easily rule alone. (majority is 289 seats.)
The President can now count on 350 MPs (including the 42 of the MoDem) to conduct his reforms and get his laws voted. Not adding of course those from other parties who might support the President.

Yup, Macron should have no problem getting things passed, even if some of his own party members defect from time to time.

Every other party received quite a drubbing.

 

[Vergennes]

Yup, Macron should have no problem getting things passed, even if some of his own party members defect from time to time.

More than 400 MPs would have probably created a big mess and a challenge to discipline all the troops in my opinion.
I hope for all those LREM and MoDem MPs to show total loyalty to Macron and his government,in fact they owe everything to him.
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Finally after various failed attempts to get elected as MP,Marine Le Pen is going to enter the Palais Bourbon.
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Government spokesman Christophe Castaner said Monday on RTL radio that Prime Minister Edouard Philippe would resign "in the coming hours" and a new government would be named in the coming days. It's a largely symbolic move required after legislative elections.

Since LREM won an absolute majority in the 577-seat National Assembly, Castaner said the government reshuffle would be "technical and not far-reaching."

 

[LA se Karachi]

More than 400 MPs would have probably created a big mess and a challenge to discipline all the troops in my opinion.

I agree. It also would have been bad for democracy. Macron has a healthy majority, but not one so huge that dissenting voices will not be heard.

I hope for all those LREM and MoDem MPs to show total loyalty to Macron and his government,in fact they owe everything to him.

Indeed, they do. It will also be interesting to see how many members of the other parties will vote with Macron as well. Some have already signaled that they will support him on many key issues.

Finally after various failed attempts to get elected as MP,Marine Le Pen is going to enter the Palais Bourbon.

After so many defeats, she finally gets a victory, eh? There's a lot of turmoil in her party right now. She's on the "hot seat", as we like to say here in America. It'll be interesting to see what happens with the party as whole.

Just curious, will the National Front still accept EU money and miss votes?

 

[Vergennes]

@LA se Karachi

The European parliament despite the rantings is a great source of funding for the National Front,like other similar European parties,especially because of its relative big presence. (Well it is the first French party)
The European elections allow parties like the FN to achieve a relative success when they totally fail at home. Why ? One round proportional election + endemic abstention.

Talking of the EU,the National Front is about to abandon the ideas of Frexit and to ditch the € for an hypothetical franc. Marine understood the fears around these issues and that French people didn't want that. Instead,they are only planning to re-negociate some treaties. A U-turn that could split the party.

 

[mike2000 is back]

Workers' Struggle and New Anticapitalist Party : 1% (-1)

I never knew there was a party like this in France?

 

[Nilgiri]

Thanks for all the updates @Vergennes and @LA se Karachi

Is @Taygibay active any more for his analysis? Also that louis guy (forgot his name) @Louiq XIV I think.

Also is Macron party more like coalition itself now (like say republicans in US) or it is more or less consolidated?

 

[Vergennes]

Thanks for all the updates @Vergennes and @LA se Karachi

Is @Taygibay active any more for his analysis? Also that louis guy (forgot his name) @Louiq XIV I think.

Also is Macron party more like coalition itself now (like say republicans in US) or it is more or less consolidated?

There's the Presidential majority,LREM of Macron which is in an alliance with the MoDem of François Bayrou. Together they represent 350 seats. (308 for LREM and 42 for MoDem.) Now there could be MPs from other parties that could form a separate group from their own parties to support the Presidential majority,but not being in it necessarily. They said they would support Macron and his government and vote for most of their laws and reforms.

As for the government of PM Philippe,it's a melting pot of persons coming from the right,the centre,the left and coming from the civil society. PM is due to form a new government,should be revealed today or tomorrow.

@LA se Karachi you among others,thanks for following the campaign with me/us. Long months of campaigns,elections,primaries whatever,I am glad this is over. The next election is in 2019 for the European parliament,so we 've got enough of time to breath.
Well,there's still the Senate elections in september,but senators are elected indirectly.

 

[Vergennes]

@LA se Karachi @Nilgiri

Since Macron’s new party, Republic on the Move!, won an absolute majority in the 577-seat National Assembly, government spokesman Christophe Castaner said on RTL radio the government reshuffle would be “technical and not far-reaching.”

Lot of things happen in 48 hours ! What seemed like just a small and technical reshuffle will in fact be a big one. 4 ministers have already resigned (or have been ejected?) and will not be part of the next government !

François Bayrou : Minister of Justice (MoDem)
Sylvie Goulard : Defence Minister (MoDem)
Marielle de Sarnez : Minister for European Affairs (MoDem)
Richard Ferrand : Minister for the cohesion of territories (LREM)

All because of affairs.

We must note that the first three were the only ministers from the MoDem,we don't know yet if the alliance will be broken or not,or if other MoDem figures will enter the new government.

Anyway,Macron's party won an absolute majority so it didn't need the MoDem anymore,especially with all the suspicious affairs that were revealed against it and its boss. It would have only dragged down Macron,who vowed to clean-up French politics.

Ironically,Bayrou,then justice minister planned a law to clean up French politics.

New government is due to be announced before 6pm!.....

 

[Vergennes]

Now that Macron successfully destroyed and divided the left,he's doing the same with the right!

French conservative lawmaker says forming splinter group in parliament

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-france-politics-conservatives-idUKKBN19C19J

 

[Taygibay]

Does France have a policy to monitor and possibly impound any of their Citizens clearly returning from say Syria, Libya and other terrorist-swamped warzones?

Yes.

Is @Taygibay active any more?

Oh, yes!
I was unavailable due to work.

Talk to you all soon, Tay.

 

[Nilgiri]

Yes.

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Oh, yes!
I was unavailable due to work.

Talk to you all soon, Tay.

Yay! Hope you are well my friend.

 

[Taygibay]

^^^


Mouais, disons! A bit tired with still a lot on my plate
and projects to restart after 2 months of "all waking
hours on the job" save for WC breaks and food but
fine in general.

I'm glad to join back with you and the gang here of
course and after reading backlog threads tomorrow
and watching the défilé, we'll pick it up.

Thanx for the friendly hail, mate; see you in -24H, Tay.

 

[Cell_DbZ]

PUBLISHED 09:20 AUGUST 3, 2017
UPDATED 09:20 AUGUST 3, 2017
Macron’s popularity rating drops to 33%, lowest ever for a French president
By Dan Alexe
Contributing Editor, New Europe

Emmanuel Macron’s popularity dropped to 33% in July, the lowest rating for a French president two months into his term, down from 45 % a month before.

This is according to YouGov, in an opinion poll made for Le HuffPost and CNews and released today, in a sign that controversy over spending cuts and tax reform is taking a toll.

Only 33% of pollsters have a positive view of Macron’s action as president.

(NBC News)


Even Socialist Francois Hollande, who turned into France’s most unpopular president in modern history early in his mandate, still benefited from 55 % positive rating two months into his term.

Macron, who swept to power in May on promises of non-partisan rule and an end to traditional Left-versus-Right politics, has had a tough month, marked by a public row over military spending cuts with top armed forces chief General Pierre de Villiers that led to de Villiers’ resignation.

Other controversies linked to his tax and spending plans have also emerged.

Macron’s popularity rating remains higher than that of most French politicians, with only Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot ahead of him in Ipsos’ poll.

https://www.neweurope.eu/article/ma...ops-to-33-lowest-ever-for-a-french-president/

 

[Nilgiri]

@Vergennes can you explain a bit what you think on the above?