When Charles De Gaulle stated that it was impossible to govern a country which produced 246 types of cheese, he was really talking about politics. So in a country where there are at a rough guess about five political parties per voter, national elections are two-rounders: the first round eliminates most of the outliers, and the thing gets serious in the second round.
Even so, I was surprised at the first round results: National Rally garnered a full third of the votes cast, with FrogPres “Granny-Shagger” Macron’s “globalist” party a distant third (after the Socialists).
Marine Le Pen‘s far-right* National Rally party led France’s snap parliamentary elections on Sunday with 33% of the vote, according to the interior ministry, with the leftist alliance New Popular Front following in second place at almost 28%. President Macron’s ruling coalition trailed in third place with 20%.
Of course, the Left accepted the election results stoically… nah, just kidding, they went all hair on fire and screaming riots, as is their wont when the people don’t vote the way they want them to.
The French people may have spoken at the ballot box, but the result clearly left some feeling very upset. Protests erupted in several French cities overnight, most particularly in Paris, where thousands gathered. The New Popular Front, which represents a spectrum of left wing parties from the pro-European Union centrists to full-blooded communists has earlier threatened they would “resist” the result if the RN won, and the protests may be the firs throes of that, although given there is a week to run until the second round of the election actually allocates the majority of the seats and decides whether Le Pen’s RN can command a majority in the house or not, perhaps expect more violence next week.
Comment of the week: “Every dead cop means one less vote for Le Pen”, thus combining support for lawlessness with political terrorism in one pithy sentence.
On a parallel note: the Greens got no votes at all (being part of the 3.1% “Other”, which encompasses over a dozen parties.
Roll on, Sunday.
*they aren’t, except by the standards of the Howling Left.
The French are Revolting! yeah? and?