Can France form coalition government after Macron's election gamble?
Ahead of the exit poll last night - every expectation had been that the far right National Rally would have the largest number of representatives in parliament with Marine Le Pen's prodigee, the 28-year-old Jordan Bardella at its helm.
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But Emmanuel Macron's enormous gamble to force the French public to confront this reality seems to have worked - well sort of. After winning the first round of the election eight days ago, the second round saw a unique coalition of convenience unite some very strange bedfellows in a single cause: to keep the nationalist right from power.
But the second part of the gamble - to find a stable government - has not worked.The far left, who hate Macron as much as the far right are now more prominent than ever and France is in for weeks, if not months of chaos and confusion. 'FRANCE INGOUVERNABLE' as one newspaper put it on its front page.
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Not even General De Gaulle can get France out of this one…….
@robinstevenson6690
13 күн бұрын
Ces't absurd!
@cestlextase
13 күн бұрын
go back to reading about ceaser and no bitches
@georgechristoforou991
11 күн бұрын
The shenanigans will end up in revolt and chaos in France. The new French government will not last the full term,.
@clarencespangle6351
9 күн бұрын
*N* orth *A* tlantic *T* errorist *O* rganization
People, this is an absolute win for Le Pen.
2:50 Damn that guy that got denied his champagne will definitely switch parties now. That face says it all 😂
@StarPopyful
13 күн бұрын
Yes… that was ruthless…😂😢
@byunbaekhyun2283
13 күн бұрын
lol yeah, he looks like he's gonna cry in 1 second if not for the camera.
@jujutrini8412
13 күн бұрын
I thought I was the only one to spot that. 😂😂😂
@Casiian_
13 күн бұрын
@@byunbaekhyun2283 😂
.... the gamble paid off!! Now Macron has a hung parliament and can rule by decree.
@frankyg2384
14 күн бұрын
Which is so bad for France, what happened is disgusting.
@Normal_Boii
13 күн бұрын
Isn't that undemocratic or smtg
@Freedomforeverall
12 күн бұрын
Better than facists runnung the country! You guys talk as if you have brains, but we all know the truth.
My thinking is... cut all the government funding for these idiots in the "think tanks" and lower the age for pensions for everyone. Money for wars and champagne in Brussels but no money to make people's lives better.
If the majority voted for this result; it's not a "shock".
How is the US turning towards Asia and away from Europe? 😂 What is she talking about
@johnrussell3961
14 күн бұрын
It’s a pacific nation. There is now more wealth being created around the pacific rim than in Europe.
@ssuwandi3240
14 күн бұрын
Because China is ,#1 threat and if you're in US you're likely more updated than the rest of the world EVs Suxkers
@RobertLeighJames92
14 күн бұрын
@@johnrussell3961 so how exactly is the US turning to Asia? My question is not who is creating more wealth but what foregin policy has changed in the US. Last I looked it was not best friends with China. And nothing else has really changed. I also disagree with your assursion. Japans economy as well as china's is stagnating. Aus FP hasn't changed, thaliand isn't isn't exactly doing much no Laos or Cambodia, indonisia I don't know but again what is the US changing there? What else?
@WhatNotEven
14 күн бұрын
@@RobertLeighJames92Turning to Asia in the sense that they are focusing on forming strategic partnerships to contain China, which they see as their largest and most existential rival. That used to be Russia, ergo the European theatre was the focus of their strategic efforts, but now it’s the Asia-pacific
@danesovic7585
13 күн бұрын
@@RobertLeighJames92 America is a brown country now. That's why they're turning to Asia and LatAm.
All those people cheering. Your POOR !!!! No use they will never get it
RN actually got the largest vote share. You should make that clear in your report. The RN will win in 2027.
@juxbertrand
13 күн бұрын
Branlée sur branlée - c'est comme pour Trump Pépito.Seules les nations décadentes comme la Hongrie, la Serbie et surtout la Russie résistent à la mondialisation pacifique. Le RN est mort, définitivement mort. Car transversalement, les Français n'en veulent pas.Des débiles.
@allthenewsordeath5772
12 күн бұрын
If things become deadlocked and dysfunctional enough, they could call another election sooner than that even
Sure!
The Front Populaire is a coalition of 4 parties; three of them hate the fascist anti-semitic LFI. No mention that the National Rally is the biggest party in the assembly. What do you expect from Channel 4 News?
It's interesting how strategically this young activist Jourdain Bardella has quickly become a strong political force.
@robinstevenson6690
13 күн бұрын
He's a weak little "pansy."
Wow nice
If the left coalition do not do popular things that the majority of the people of France want then it will allow the enthusiasm for the right to build up more steam.
To many frog legs for too long. U will pay 😂
6:17 'but he also lost, the... con-Fidence
@tamiya2323
14 күн бұрын
English is his second language... what you expect
vive la france
Did Sorros help?
The French have got to learn how to compromise if they want their country in one piece.
@sadjaxx
13 күн бұрын
The French know who the enemy are! Pity Americans are clueless.
@robinstevenson6690
13 күн бұрын
We're likely to see a compromise of the left and centre to smash the right.
@thetreelander7378
13 күн бұрын
@@sadjaxx thats is funny, yelllowlynx said learn to compromise (i.e. don't devolve into violence) and you are with your language pushing towards social violence.
@frenzy1111
12 күн бұрын
The left did compromise, in quite a short time too.
Long live Frances 🇫🇷 from the USA 🙏 ✨ 🇺🇸
@chrischristof6705
14 күн бұрын
Game is over, baby 😂
@Thichaou
14 күн бұрын
A kosher? Out of Urope now!
@Kevin-fq3zh
14 күн бұрын
it’ll be frankistan in a few years time
@not_ever
14 күн бұрын
Who is Frances?
@titteryenot4524
14 күн бұрын
Yes, let McDormand live!
That coalition will not last. Strange bed fellows.
@robinstevenson6690
13 күн бұрын
And are we not even stranger "bed fellows?"
Hes just triggered the next Les Mis.
1:36 only special people.. which have hazlenuts for brains
Amazing video, really loved it!
It was totally predictable, first question is wrong
French teats in France and Canada
The best part was at 2:55 when the bartender takes the champagne from the RN supporter's hands and puts it on ice, just like an adult putting a child who knows nothing in their place. A fitting metaphor for the RN.
@allthenewsordeath5772
12 күн бұрын
When a good chunk of the new coalition is made up of actual honest to God communists in the year of our Lord 2024, saying the people who think migration has gotten out of hand judging by all the riots and Palestinian flags are the dumb ones is a little bit laughable.
BOOHOO WAAAAAHHHHH
What a broken system with a president and prime minister not having to be of same majority party, or the need for president at all.
@serebii666
12 күн бұрын
are you completely politically illiterate?
France is all over the shop. One day it’s right wing, the next left. No wonder the place is such a mess.
I could find only one comment in French language. Rest in English. Why?
🪅MAJORITY RULES 🌟🪅 and Egomaniacs are grotesque!
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I think the wisdom of the French people will result in a coalition of centrists to govern France until 2027.
The idea that RN will continue to gain an increased % of vote share is ridiculous. Don't they understand the tendency of growth curves toward an asymptote (leveling off)? All RN has done is reach the zenith of their asymptote. France has rejected them!
@akashnikunj-sp8yv
13 күн бұрын
10 million vote npf is not.a party like Labour party they're coalition
@robinstevenson6690
13 күн бұрын
@@akashnikunj-sp8yv Quite a weak attempt at an "education!" Go home, akashnikunj!
Phahaha Uk as a role model hahaha
Compare, how the far-left and far-right supporters look. And you will understand everything.
@davidmcculloch8490
14 күн бұрын
Never judge a book by its cover.
@chairmanRob
14 күн бұрын
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes."
@johnrussell3961
14 күн бұрын
When given a choice , macrons centrists voted for the far left rather than the far right.
@IRABAH
14 күн бұрын
Wooton woooo woooo hahaha losers...
@LA-kc7ev
13 күн бұрын
I was thinking the same.
This is what you get when you divide people and the media plays on this. Facebook as well by the way.
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Hard left ooh not far left. Only the right is far but the left is hard... Mmm...
@CurvaceousCrow
14 күн бұрын
You're not the sharpest knife in the kitchen are you Robert
@taekwanlew
14 күн бұрын
Heres a suggestion. Book yourself into a course on politics. You will soon understand what fascism is and where it sits on the spectrum.It'll save the embarrassment
@connorparsfield7456
14 күн бұрын
There is no hard left maybe the communist party in France but the others are moderate left wing parties
@RobertLeighJames92
14 күн бұрын
@@CurvaceousCrow I am not a knife no. Care to explain to me the symantics of my question or straight to ad hominems?
@gomey70
14 күн бұрын
zzzzzz
*”Mister Bardella, what went wrong?”* The RN only got 33% vote share, meaning 67%-or over two-thirds of the French voting electorate-did not want them. Nothing “went wrong,” better luck next election.
@theactivecoconut6077
14 күн бұрын
37% in the second round though. They still won the most votes by far. I personally see it as a victory for RN because they can just blame all the problems on the center and left next election.
@covfefe1787
14 күн бұрын
no they got 37.4% of vote share over 10 million votes far more than the communist bloc and the Macronists. Ordinairy French people lost due to the elites manuevering. In a proportianal system RN should be forming a government not the communists.
@LMGuelph
14 күн бұрын
They will be back to the polls in a few months, minority governments don't last, just ask Canada.
@Edmuresrampantmanhood-dp3jd
14 күн бұрын
@@covfefe1787 In a proportional system there wouldn't be a second round, RN would only receive 33%, and be way further from a majority than any other party.
@holyfordus
14 күн бұрын
@@theactivecoconut6077 Fair, they did do better in the second round. The issue though is they *demanded* a majority, straight up said they wouldn’t form a Cabinet without 51% of the legislative seats. They were never going to get to govern. The RN might get a chance if this government fails, which is possible, but if the new government ends up even marginally more popular than Macron they’re kind of screwed. This is the French, though, so they’ll probably get a shot
Center and Left parties have to work together.
@alexrobinson2103
14 күн бұрын
They will work together. Haha nice joke, they all hate eachother, they have to team up at 2nd round because they dont want Le Pen win the election
@Kevin-fq3zh
14 күн бұрын
and turn the country into an islamic state
@benusmaximus3601
14 күн бұрын
Nah the centre and centre-right need to work together to block out the Left...
@NefetariMoonRay
14 күн бұрын
ABSOLUTELY.
@guillaumeroger81
14 күн бұрын
Center is part of Macron's coalition. During the last seven years they managed to make far right being more and more alive. Macron has promissed he would stop their influence in french political life during is presidency. At the contrary, as a result of Macron's policy, Rassemblement National was very near to get power this sunday. That is why the left wing don't want to work with people who brought far right almost at the top. RN is the opposite of the left and RN hates Macron's party as the left wing. If the left wing and center create a coalition, it's the best way to make far right progress and to betray the left voters.
wallah frere tema la tète de champion qu'il a ce macron ah lala je l'addor. Macron gloire éternité wallah frere
Show the riots !! way more interesting !!!!
@IRABAH
14 күн бұрын
wooo woooo woooo.hahahaha losers
#MANIFESTATION
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Didn’t Channel 4’s French correspondent work down in the basement in the IT department.
@robinstevenson6690
13 күн бұрын
Love Channel 4!
Thank God for Pins!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
8⁸
Democracy loses again, very regrettable.
@fspg3207
14 күн бұрын
Wrong, it worked very well.
It's very reassuring to hear the Leftwing candidate say that they are commited to supporting Ukraine in their manifesto.
Fascist tears 😢 delicious as usual 😋
@frankyg2384
14 күн бұрын
The irony is you're the fascists.
@RESIST_THE_GREAT_REPLACEMENT
14 күн бұрын
It will be your tears once you start living in a sh*thole
How can your reporter describe the rise of The Right in France as "inexorable" (ie relentless, unstoppable) when it was stopped in its tracks! Your journalism is getting really poor
@1antag0nist53
14 күн бұрын
It would have been unstoppable if the good people of france didn’t come together as one to stop them. Maybe that goes to show how awful NR’s politics are
@frankyg2384
14 күн бұрын
@@1antag0nist53 France is done now, it's going to be no different than Venezuela with these far left socialist/communist nut jobs in power, they just announced they'll be spending hundreds of billions of tax dollars to fund their ideology driven dumpster fire, what Macron and the left did is disgusting, the so called "Good people of France" didn't vote enough to win which is why the far left party dropped out to form an authoritarian coalition with Macron by giving Macron their seats, the right wing party got the most votes and was going to win, they didn't lose by the amount of votes, they lost because of a scummy slimy snake of a move the left pulled.
@panda-ep6xo
14 күн бұрын
They almost doubled their number of seats. “Not winning a majority” does not inherently mean they lost.
@RESIST_THE_GREAT_REPLACEMENT
14 күн бұрын
@@1antag0nist53 Bad* people
@dimtool4183
13 күн бұрын
They're constantly rising in all european countries, it's a matter of time unless stronger left parties take the lead.
France got its taste , hurray , from india 🇮🇳..now taste shariah
Great news for France well done!
Not possible for extreme right and extreme left to have a coalition.
@ralphmaver1489
14 күн бұрын
... unless they want a civil war.
@luminousfractal420
14 күн бұрын
i dunno look at keir starmer 😂 the problem for them is the moves were not made for the far right, they were msde for the eugenicists. the far right are on little boats with the rest of us. just tools that got used.
@MrBoliao98
14 күн бұрын
It's called a National Unity Government and it has happened.
@frankyg2384
14 күн бұрын
@@MrBoliao98 It's called a far left nut job extremist socialist communist coalition government.
@ryanfoo5286
13 күн бұрын
@@luminousfractal420 the tories and nr are quite different
Of course it can. Centrist joins Left to form the government, leaving right in limbo.
@Flexinciple
14 күн бұрын
Too much ideological differences between the centrist and the far left. Highly highly unlikely.
@dansomething7742
14 күн бұрын
The coalition of left wing parties is already VERY broad, it ranges from far left to centre left. It might well not stretch much further
@TimeMakerDotPH
13 күн бұрын
Yeah, it worked like how leftists, socialists, liberals, and centre-right formed an alliance during the Fourth Republic called the "Third Force" to keep the Gaullist out of the government. Then they messed up so much in Algeria that de Gaulle was brought back to power by 1958. News media like to compare the RN to the Vichy regime when it's more like the original Gaullism. They didn't stop anything, they just delayed it and the RN will grow stronger. Don't believe, they just literally got the largest vote share. So you better hope that this so-called "left-center government" governs well or else, it will just take one crisis for the so-called "far-right" to be swept into power.
@sointaminn
13 күн бұрын
@@dansomething7742 It could, if Macron's party accepts defeat. Faure's left-centre Socialist Party refuses to join Macron, so it will have to be the other way around.
this is mad i get they didnt want nazis but this is realy a lesser evil and i dont think it will hold
@dumbl4421
13 күн бұрын
helping normal people instead of parasites is the lesser 'evil'? restoring pensions to how they were before macron gutted them so he can increase the surplus army of labour is bad? stopping pollution and improving healthcare is evil?
@justhannah3960
13 күн бұрын
@@dumbl4421 Populist bullshit and stop being a Nazi.
@thetreelander7378
13 күн бұрын
@@dumbl4421 and you think socialists and communists will have genuine care?
@kerozen7674
11 күн бұрын
They didn't want Nazis but they have a gay dictator with his harem as ministers now. Enjoy!
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LVMH احب الدمى واحب الاستحمام معها انا اكل الحديد والنحاس انا من نار واقو.ا ايمان من عايشه
That woman wearing the pink vest deserves to be the new Prime Minister.
Truth is that millions of ordinary Europeans are sick of mass immigration. I’ll give you a recent personal example: I was on holiday in Provence recently. I visited the gorgeous old perfume town of Grasse. Every single resident I saw was an Arab. It felt like Tangiers or Algiers. It certainly didn’t feel like France. If I want to visit an Arab town I go to Africa or Asia (which I do regularly); Europe shouldn’t be creating whole towns of non-Europeans. No other continent does this stuff to this degree.
@lowwfeh
14 күн бұрын
I lived in provence for almost one year from 2022-2023 and you are straight up lying
@fxhzwingzero
14 күн бұрын
bIrth problems are the problem, our reliance of pfa's is killing birth rates and micro plastics! Plus they weren't hurting anybody, so whats your point besidesbeing racist lol
@titteryenot4524
14 күн бұрын
@@lowwfehNo, I’m not. Go to Grasse and tell me I’m wrong. 👍
@titteryenot4524
14 күн бұрын
@@fxhzwingzeroHow is it ‘racist’ to point out that a European town full of Arabs to the exclusion of most others is odd? It’s nothing to do with racism. I don’t care what you are. I was just pointing out how odd it feels that so many Western European towns/cities feel distinctly un-European. I have nothing against Arabs, here. I’m just against the ghettoisation of so much of Europe. Most mix. Islam doesn’t. Islam doesn’t want to mix. 👍
@titteryenot4524
14 күн бұрын
@@lowwfehJust out of interest, where in Provence did you live?
French politicians are fine
GAZA? genocide?
@thetreelander7378
13 күн бұрын
but the question for that is where is the tractors.
الغموض الجماعي
Vive le Front Populaire!
Now they will have no excuses in 2027! Deliver or Le Pen is the next president!
@ashben74
14 күн бұрын
God help us if they do !
@maneshipocrates2264
14 күн бұрын
Le Pen will never be French president. You may have to read more about France. The left leaning voters hate the right leaning voters. They will NEVER change.
@NefetariMoonRay
14 күн бұрын
HOPEFULLY BY THIS TIME THE DANGER FROM PUTINS THREATS UPON 250 000 000 LIVES WILL HAVE PASSED BY, BY PUTIN HAVING TO ENDURE HIS OWN CONSEQUENCES.
@RESIST_THE_GREAT_REPLACEMENT
14 күн бұрын
Well they won’t deliver, so looks like Le Pen will be your next president 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
@maneshipocrates2264
13 күн бұрын
France will never vote for that lady and right wing boy to become PM. U know nothing about France. Get off the drugs.
I don't think Macron will have any problem with "embrasser le bas" to get his agenda met.
hate will win never win
@Thichaou
14 күн бұрын
The commies are winning, R U blind?😂
@ciaranharrington4141
14 күн бұрын
Get back in your 20m shoe box apartment, collect your 1.5k p/m and drink your soup kid
@thommantelokam2956
14 күн бұрын
@@ThichaouCommis & Jihadists are same
@ashben74
14 күн бұрын
@@Thichaou I'm not sure what you mean.
@Coltaire
14 күн бұрын
@@Thichaou rather than facism
If the far right is the answer, you are either asking the wrong question or looking in the wrong direction because of their populist deflection.
@covfefe1787
14 күн бұрын
arent the left just islamic populists? they are held hostage by gaza
Communism welcome France.
@taekwanlew
14 күн бұрын
ohh for goodness sake. If you don't know anything about politics then don't comment. Comunism?
@gomey70
14 күн бұрын
😂 go back to sleep, this is for adults.
@user-sb3sn8di1s
14 күн бұрын
BETTER THAN NAZISM
@brojwz2314
14 күн бұрын
@@taekwanlew they are communist or extreme leftist. Just accept what u are
@RobertLeighJames92
14 күн бұрын
@@gomey70 such insight and wisdom. You managed to say nothing.. But used words to do that. That's truely incredible how you contributed to the conversation, you know like the adult you claim to be.
We needed an alternative to the madness, now we got it!
@uromvictor
13 күн бұрын
Another level of Madness
Dad always said WW2 French resistance was a myth and that they were happy to be Nazi collaborators.
@eca3101
13 күн бұрын
100%
@konradsartorius7913
13 күн бұрын
It’s more complicated. Many French institutions, especially the police, largely collaborated. However, much of the French public resisted.
@marleneboycie4004
13 күн бұрын
Thanks for sharing this context.@@konradsartorius7913
french tax payers lost, free loaders won lol
Total fix
@johnrussell3961
14 күн бұрын
The rules weren’t changed since last time..
@gomey70
14 күн бұрын
boo hoo
Are you really asking an American about the differences of French politics and British 😂 I don't think she has a clue what she is talking about
needs to form with the GREENS....and Macron's party
@sointaminn
13 күн бұрын
Macron's political line has been hugely impopular and ineffective or the last 7 years and even the moderate left recognizes this. If a coalition forms, it will be the center joining the left and not the other way around.
So France surrenders yet again!
@robinstevenson6690
13 күн бұрын
b.s.
Well, France is still under the US Israel management, so no worries
@thetreelander7378
13 күн бұрын
oh shut up
France has fallen. Such a shame.
@robinstevenson6690
13 күн бұрын
That's completely balderdash, and utter malarkey. I feel sorry for anyone who holds such a preposterous view!
@jebbo-c1l
13 күн бұрын
France is a great country, stop being a drama queen
@xena2559
13 күн бұрын
Yep. RIP France.
@robinstevenson6690
13 күн бұрын
@@xena2559 How completely and utterly ridiculous!
@xena2559
13 күн бұрын
@@robinstevenson6690 sleep baby sleep. You'll soon see it thru
4 channel =fake news 📰📰
@marleneboycie4004
13 күн бұрын
May I get some context on this and channel 4