They handed them a landslide victory in the European elections; they handed them a landslide victory in this legislative election’s first round.
However, similar to the presidential contest, they withdrew from the edge when it came to a vote that mattered.
Voters’ massive turnout to oppose the National Rally (RN) is solely to blame for this unexpected upset, which has dropped the RN to third place with only 150 seats, as opposed to projections of about 300 a week ago.
therefore,They observe that in order to build a new anti-RN alliance, the different left parties all of a sudden forgot their disagreements, and that later, the Macronites and the left also lost their differences.
They observe that the only thing that these politicians have in common, from Philippe Poutou of the Trotskyist left to Edouard Philippe on the center right, is their antagonism to the RN. And therefore it is not good for the future if there is no agreement.
Still, the fact is what it is. The majority of people are against the extreme right because they disagree with its ideologies or because they are afraid of the chaos that will unavoidably accompany its rise to power.
Who will lead the nation as prime minister in the event that Jordan Bardella is not selected?
That’s the big unknown.
