BREAKING: Snap election in France called by Macron

What the fuck is happening?

If Europe and America fall to far right forces over the next few months, there will be no where to hide and no where to flee.

Le Pen's party made significant gains in this election. Good god.

You have to wonder how much Russia has been pushing disinformation into their social media as well. The US isn't the only target - it's all of NATO.

The European left fucked themselves with immigration. They have only themselves to blame.

OP, Macron will remain president until his term ends. These are parliamentary elections.

Stasi Merkel's legacy

Except Merkel's party came first in the elections in Germany, r5, while her European-level party, the EPP, came first throughout Europe and increased its seats. Moreover the AfD's vote didn't increase that much. What happened is that the government coalition parties collapsed, because the current German government is shit.

I'd also add that it's precisely failed laughable attempts to present the AfD as being funded by Putin that led to their increase in votes - because that kind of juvenile Mccarthyism puts voters off.

Scary. Isn’t this way too 1930’s like?

[quote]Le Pen's party made significant gains in this election. Good god. You have to wonder how much Russia has been pushing disinformation into their social media as well. The US isn't the only target - it's all of NATO.

^ Putin Derangement Syndrome.

What’s scary are the Muslims there trying to turn it into another Saudi Arabia. Must we post the truck running down innocent people or the club massacre? I don’t blame the French for backing Le Pen. The country is a disaster.

EU elections 2024 live: Macron dissolves French parliament and calls snap election; Meloni’s party leading in Italy, poll says​

This is 2016 again. Get ready for Trump.

Not shocking at all, except if you write for the NYT or the BBC. This was expected and totally predictable

Belgium Prime Minister Alexander De Croo announced his resignation on Sunday night, in the wake of the results of the elections for the local parliament as well as the elections for the European Parliament. In both cases, the right-wing and extreme right-wing parties achieved great success, defeating the liberal camp led by De Croo.

“For us it was a particularly difficult evening, we lost. From tomorrow, I will be a resigning Prime Minister,” told supporters at a rally, according to Politico. De Croo will stay on as caretaker prime minister until a new government is in place.

“I am convinced that we need a new government quickly, with full powers,” he added. “The voter’s signal is clear.”

Tom Van Grieken, the leader of Flanders’ far-right Vlaams Belang party has been focused on anti-migration.

“Flemish money should first and foremost go to Flemish families!” said Van Grieken — a jab at both public spending to help immigrants and to support Wallonia. His audience cheered.

Helen Keller could see this coming. What’s crazy is the center/left didn’t self correct years ago to avoid this mess.

Expel all of the Muslims like it were 1492.

I have to laugh at Europeans for years looking down their noses on the US, calling it racist from their perfectly homogeneous countries. Cut to present day when their countries have been flood with different ethnicities and cultures different from their own and they can’t deal with it. All hell breaks loose. America, a melting pot, even with all its problems has yet to implode. Americans should feel proud of that fact. Now, Europe will go full Hitler again.

Which Europeans are you referring to, r17? Europe is a melting pot of different ethnicities and cultures, customs, cuisines, traditions and languages, located next to Africa and the Middle East.

Great. Modern Nazis are taking over.

r18 you know exactly what he's referring to.

[quote]What’s scary are the Muslims there trying to turn it into another Saudi Arabia.

Basis for this ludicrous statement?

r21 go visit Western Europe.

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No, r20, I don't know exactly what he's talking about (aside from some dumb anti-European bs) and I doubt either you or he know what actually happened in the European Parliament elections.

Whereabouts in western Europe are you referring to, r23?

I think he means Londonstan and Paris, the new Mecca. Sweden is also the rape capital for a reason.

Don't forget Brussels, aka Northern Marrakech. It's bullshit.

I live in London, it's nothing like what you loons are saying, and neither are the other places.

Why do the French hold their elections on snap? That app is so 2016!

[quote] Sweden is also the rape capital for a reason

Crime has reduced in Sweden since 2005, but don’t let the truth stand in the way of some good old fashioned bigotry.

For the know-nothing dumb-dumb at R31

r29/r31 please.

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[quote]Gangland shootings and bombings that have plagued Sweden's biggest cities have spread to quieter suburbs and towns, shattering its reputation as a safe and peaceful nation.

[quote]Half an hour north of central Stockholm, Upplands-Bro features lakeside boat clubs, copper-red wooden villas and apartments flanked by pine and spruce trees. But a 14-year-old boy was found dead in a forest here in August, and since January there have been several shootings and bombings targeting houses and apartments. "It's awful. We've [been] woken up by explosions in the neighbourhood and it's scary," says 42-year-old Anna Petterson, who lives in Bro and has three children. "It's very much something that we're aware of, and we talk about a lot, and are afraid of." Sweden has been a European hotspot for gang-related shootings and bombings for several years. But recently the violence has shifted beyond low-income, vulnerable urban areas and police say one reason is that gang members are increasingly targeting rivals' relatives.

When you import Medieval religious lunatics you get all of their chaos. They don't magically adopt Western cultural values. Europeans were hopelessly naive about this.

R29, go check out Bournemouth and other coastal towns to see how crime-ridden they've become. A lesbian and her friend were stabbed there a couple of weeks ago. Her friend survived, she died. 20-year-old Nasen Saadi was arrested and charged with her murder.

The Left is having to come to terms with its failings. Look at them in American NOW calling for closing the border. That happened the minute it ended up on their doorstep. Step down from the ivory tower and deal with reality or face the consequences.

Slightly embarrassing that this will be happening the same month as the Olympics. Other than that, quite a savvy move by Macron.

Sounds like an echo chamber in here.

R1, unfortunately, Canada is likely to elect a Conservative Government in 2025, too.

On the bright side, the UK Conservatives are likely to be defeated in next month's election.

Britain is the outlier right now

R36

Saadi is from Croydon.

R36, I bet most of those towns have very low crime rates, actually

Elon Musk supports Nazis

The outlier from what, r41?

Le Pen's party only got 31.5% of the vote. This is in an election that always gets a very low turn out, thus allowing the less mainstream parties to appear more popular. The trouble for Macron is that his grouping (whatever it actually is) got even fewer votes. The problem is with Macron is that he is not a good politician and the voters are sending him the message that he is doing a terrible job.

Similarly in Germany, where there is huge dysfunction in the coalition government, the AfD only got 16% of the vote.

Lots of hysteria about absolutely nothing.

R40, r41, Nigel Farage was an MEP (Member of the European Parliament) for about 20 years. If the UK were still in the EU he would probably still be an MEP and his party grouping would be quite large. David Cameron left the mainstream European People's Party grouping to form the European Party of Conservatives and Reformists, which apart from the British Conservative MEPs only managed to attract a few crackpots. The UK then did the most extremist thing of leaving the EU, with immigration being a supposed factor, despite the fact that the EU had nothing to do with the UK's immigration policy and immigration has only surged since Brexit. The UK is only the outlier in the sense that no other country would do something as deranged as leave the EU.

R45, I think R41 was referring to the fact that Britain may be the only country at the moment that is likely to throw out its Conservative government, whereas many other places (eg. the rest of Europe, Canada & USA) appear to be moving to the right.

There has been a loony replacement theory troll who has taken every opportunity to post about how horrible and Muslim infest of Europe is for years. Just ignore the crazy fucker. 🚫

[quote]Crime has reduced in Sweden since 2005, but don’t let the truth stand in the way of some good old fashioned bigotry.

People like R31 who think that they can just deny reality and gaslight people against the facts are the reason that the so called left libs have been defeated and are probably going to be defeated througout the western world.

How very dare they R48

[quote]The Left is having to come to terms with its failings. Look at them in American NOW calling for closing the border. That happened the minute it ended up on their doorstep. Step down from the ivory tower and deal with reality or face the consequences.

So it was the left who just had a chance to pass an immigration bill, but chose to do nothing because their cult leader decided he'd rather use it as a campaign ploy rather than trying to actually address the issue in any way. Got it.

That's simply because the UK has had a Conservative government for the past 14 years, r47, and their time is naturally up. A few other places are simply having elections.

In the UK, the right-wing (albeit a somewhat meangless term these days) Reform Party looks set to do very well.

More on Replacement Theory — which has been debunked

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[quote] Saadi is from Croydon.

He could be "from" Buckingham Palace. Nobody is fooled by such gaslighting.

R52/ R54 I bet that liberals among Native Americans were saying the same as you do.

Sorry, I meant R53, not R52.

I have also heard that more progressive Palestinians said that replacement theory is bullshit conspiracy theory as Jewish settlers had been arriving.

[quote]Britain is the outlier right now

I mean, not really. There's been a move to the left in Poland, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark as well, judging by the results of the European elections. You're just seeing a certain narrative that you want to see, but the fact is that European countries aren't a monolith.

The "far right" didn't even do as well throughout Europe as the breathless headlines are claiming. If anything, the French results are the outlier. Macron's response is nonsensical. His support in the French parliament has been slipping and so he's trying to force the other opposition parties into backing him in some kind of alliance against the RN. But this is stupid. Why would opposition parties (left parties, the greens, centre right), who support very different policies suddenly rally to Macron? He's given them the opportunity to take seats from him in parliament, and they're going to take that opportunity.

The only positive possible outcome from this stupid snap election is that the RN do gain more seats and perhaps even a seat in government and thus have to prove themselves as competent politicians, rather than simply jeering from the sidelines. Although, their real support in the country is less than 31% and they only got this figure because these are European parliament elections, which tend to have a lower turnout so the result can be skewed towards more maverick parties.

Whatever you say, r99.

No, not whatever I say, r60. Whatever the actual facts are.

R60 Who knew Nostradamus was a DLer, predicting quotes to posts yet to come.

R343,

[quote]The "far right" didn't even do as well throughout Europe as the breathless headlines are claiming.

You are wrong about that.

It should be interesting see what results in France ruled under Fascism in the 21st century.

These are European Parliament elections and not individual countries. Relax.

R66 is confused.

Really r64? Why don't you give the actual figures then that show this apparent surge of the far right?

r68 Don't bother, he has his black and white narrative (read: Russian talking points) and he's sticking with them. The fact that European elections are mostly used by the people as a protest vote against the ruling coalitions – whether they be left or right – in their respective countries is too much complexity for him to handle. He probably thinks it's as clear-cut as in the US with their federal elections, not understanding that EU member states are mostly discrete units.

The L.A. Olympics will also take place around the time of the party conventions in 2028, in the heat of the election season. So that'll be equally embarrassing as these French snap elections.

R69, even as a "protest" vote there isn't a surge in the far-right vote throughout Europe though. I'd be interested to see r68's figures.

I don't know how many times we have to tell this asshole that the surge didn't happen "throughout Europe", and that countries like Poland and Portugal surged to the left. This person is clearly a fucking troll with an agenda, ignoring that the makeup of the European parliament is pretty much the same.

There is no real discussion to happen with this "person", who is better left ignored.

R72 is confused. Sounds American.

Why would atheist Liberals/Lefties want to import hoards of religious fanatics from backward cultures? How is that progressive? Muslims aren't migrating to the West because they believe in Liberal Western values, they're migrating for economic reasons. They want to continue being Muslims they just want to do it in Europe with a higher standard of living. The friction that exists in Western Europe today is paltry compared to how it'll be in the future. When European Muslims become a big enough voting block they'll abolish Liberal Western values such as capitalism, usury, women's rights, gay rights, etc. Muslims don't tolerate degeneracy or apostasy. They're similar to Nazis. Western Europeans are essentially importing Brown Nazis.

[quote]When European Muslims become a big enough voting block they'll abolish Liberal Western values such as capitalism, usury, women's rights, gay rights,

How is usury (the practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest) a Western "value", listed alongside women's and gay rights? For that matter, capitalism is not a value either, but rather an economic model.

r74 is 100% correct.

[quote]I don't know how many times we have to tell this asshole that the surge didn't happen "throughout Europe", and that countries like Poland and Portugal surged to the left. This person is clearly a fucking troll with an agenda, ignoring that the makeup of the European parliament is pretty much the same. There is no real discussion to happen with this "person", who is better left ignored.

You're citing Poland and Portugal? LOL.

The imporant countries of Europe are Germany, France, Italy. In that order.

They're the only Euro countries powerful enough to be members of the G7.

All three have seen a surge in the far-right with this election.

[quote]This person is clearly a fucking troll with an agenda, ignoring that the makeup of the European parliament is pretty much the same.

You're ignorant.

CBS News June 10, 2024

"After four days of voting, with more than 400 million people eligible across 27 countries, European voters have pulled the bloc's 720-seat parliament farther to the right than it has ever been."

"The European Parliament, for the next five years, will now have a record number of far-right legislators. Far-right parties made gains in Europe's top three economies — Germany, France and Italy — with gains by politicians who campaigned against immigration, against support for Ukraine and against climate policy. "

I would like to kick Marine Le Frog in her frying pan flat face. Cunt.

This thread stinks of borscht and krokodil.

R80 Which posts specifically?

No it doesn't r80. Go back to your Dynasty reruns and let the grownups talk.

[quote]I would like to kick Marine Le Frog in her frying pan flat face.

She's not the cause of France's ills.

Jordan Bardella is cut from the same cloth as Austria's Sebastian Kurz and Holland's Thierry Baudet (the latter is now a loony conspiracy freak)

What policies of Bardella do you disagree with?

Billy Porter reminds me of Little Richard with his over-the-top personality.

Bardella, Kurz, Baudet: slick, careerist, superficially handsome, ultimately willing to abandon their principles in exchange for more power, prone to corruption, will all end up (or have already ended up) in the corporate world

Kurz never had any principles. He was a centrist and neoliberal corporate puppet, allegedly close to Americans and Soros R87.

Chaos over in gay Paree.

Shops are boarded up amid fears of left-wing riots as far-right National Rally WINS first round of snap French election

Humiliated Macron drops to third -

Le Pen's party could be in power by the Olympics as she declares: 'Democracy has spoken'

ioting engulfed the streets of Paris last night as thousands of enraged voters set light to rubbish, smashed up shop windows and launched fireworks after the far-right steamed to victory in the first round of snap parliamentary elections.

Hordes of riot cops were dispatched across the city, particularly in the French capital's Place de la République where the police clashed with flare-toting rioters into the early hours of the morning.

Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) won some 33% of the vote, according to the Interior Ministry, followed by the left-wing New Popular Front alliance on 28% - with incumbent president Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance lagging in a distant third on just 20%.

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French citizens are tired of singing the Germans' song

These same protestors are the same who never bother to vote.

R90 I am an idiot when it comes to French elections. So what happens next?

How many more rounds are there?

There will another round next Sunday. Macron's party and the left parties are expected to form an alliance to stop the RN from getting the majority at the Assemblee Nationale.

Ask the idiot Guardian how many more rounds they have