Emanuel Macron’s En Marche party scored big in French national elections today, but turnout was a record low 35% with a couple hours to go according to Politico.
Last week, estimates were En Marche would win as many as 425 seats. Final results are not in but a total near 355 is the call now according to France24.
Le Pen Heads to Parliament 1st Time
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has won her first French parliamentary seat in a vote that was dominated by President Emmanuel Macron’s centrists.
Le Pen said she won with about 58 percent of the vote Sunday in Henin-Beaumont in northern France. She said her far-right National Front has won at least 6 seats in the French parliament and is still waiting for other results.
Le Pen said her party’s lawmakers will “fight with all necessary means the harmful projects of the government.” She said they will especially fight against what she called Macron’s pro-European, pro-migrant policies.
Germans Celebrate
The above snip on Le Pen from the AP article Germans celebrate Macron party win in France
German government officials are celebrating the clear victory of President Emmanuel Macron’s party in France’s parliamentary election.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff, Peter Altmaier, wrote Sunday on Twitter that “France now has a strong president with a strong majority in parliament.” Altmaier added: “Good for Europe and for Germany!”
The German Foreign Ministry quoted Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Twitter as saying that “the road is clear for reforms, in France and in Europe.”
Marriage Made in Heaven?
Macron will no pressure Germany for Eurobonds, looser budgets, Germany’s balance of trade surplus, and German government spending.
It will also be interesting to see how the French public unions react to corporate tax cuts, layoffs of government workers, and work week rules changes.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Mish, it will all go through swimmingly.
It won’t be allowed to be otherwise.
Expect some serious problems with the Brexit side and heavy damage to UK economy. It will be sold as being amicable but it’s really not.
In fact this will encourage a worse Brexit outcome to encourage the French to fall into line.
No opportunity will be wasted to punish the UK and speed change in France.
The French are so screwed now they don’t even know it.
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The UJ will be better off
They can ignore the bill presented by frau juncker 🙂
Hi Mish
I am proud to have voted Macron this afternoon though I am right wing republican / conservative mainstream voter
The socialiste / leftists were crunshed / beaten so enjoy
Workers/ unions must be put back to work / taxes should be reduced /
reforms should be implemented as soon as possible
French unemplyment rate should go down and growth resume
Marine Le Pen is done / over
She claimed during the now famous presidential debate on tv watched by millions of french voters / to be against globalisation which is stupid
She nwill have merely 8 representatives in parliament out of 577 nothing representing
workers mainly eager to preserve socialist welfare state in order to live at the expense of taxpayers like me / 1 out of 2 french citizen do not pay any income tax
Without globalization France could not export its products to China for instance
In the future France is due to be back on track with strong economic reforms and could
compete with countries such as Great Britain or Germany and outperform them
Did you see what Thomas Pesquet a french astronaut has done in the space recently ??
The best mathematicians in the world owning the fields medail are either french or american got it ?
What I enjoyed most is our president Macron shaking hands with Pdt Trump , that was a strong one frankly same with pdt Putin.
Keep in mind that the problem in France is not French people but french socialist system/ society framework ie mentalities now hopefully it s gonna change in the good direction
with less taxes and constraints/ regulations so that the country goes at its best for the overall population
Take care / see ya
“Without globalization France could not export its products to China for instance”
Really? Why is that?
How does one say “Kool-Aid” in French?
@ stéphane, are you a banker? or someone with a certain wealth? because if you are among the “pleb” and writing this you must be under some kind of drugs or out of your mind and you don’t understand what globalisation do to the people.
You are living in a lala land if you think taxes and unemployment are going down.
France is going in the strait ligne to civile war now that son of Rothchild is in power.
He is going to impose his laws via decrets without consultation and this from the summer when the majority of french are on holidays and his tactic will give birth to something very nasty for the many during holidays so the french people get lobotised even more.
My understanding of the last two elections is that the french have not sufferred enough and are fixated on the Europe of the 70’s where it’s going to be prosperity, jobs, wealth, peace etc……. look at Greece, women need to protistute to get a loaf of bread, more so called help they get from the ECB and the IMF more their debt is going up, Portugal is going under, Spain another bank gone down bought for 1 euro, Italy her total banks are in taters and you have but joy to offer in France, i say one thing wake up open your eyes because you’ll have only yourself to blame tomorrow you have choosen a dodo for president.
Thanks to the british they have writen history by showing you the way to take control of your nation, the brexit when it’s finalised will put british people free from any control from the real thugs
What happens if the new jobs created are taken by migrating Eastern Europeans that work harder and longer for less helping to create an underclass of French unemployed?
How is Macron guaranteeing French jobs for French workers? Surely saying and doing so is against EU single market employment regulations or will language skills be used as a barrier with so few speaking French?
How will they avoid being washed away by the globalisation Macron loves when the language is diminishing and there are millions ready to migrate for French pay and conditions?
Change is easy to talk about & theorise upon. Try getting it accepted when it’s acceptance involves major culture shift and shock, that’s different all together. Tax cuts are the easy bit. When you see your culture dissolve……..
Dream on friend, with only a 35% turnout, he might have the ‘power’ but not the people with him. Wait and see when the people ‘strike’ etc. at his efforts.
Any more than 50% of anything and it’s labelled “populist”
In days double speak, 35% turn-out leading to a majority proves he’s OK & not the least bit populist and possibly not even popular at all – even better for a leader of an EU country.
A hit squad has been sent to Evry to control Valls, who has locked himself in the townhall with the ballot papers.
Jérémie Nadé @jeremienade 7m
Le Raid vient d’arriver à Évry pour tenter de maîtriser Manuel Valls barricadé dans la mairie avec les bulletins de vote
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Removing blank and spoilt ballots, voter participation is at 39%.
So would you rather own euros, dollars, or gold?
“Far-right leader Marine Le Pen”
“Far-right” in Europe being anyone to the right of Karl Marx.
She has to be pigeon holed and that label has the desired effect of influencing to electorate the way the system wants them.
Indeed Fish. It is like UKIP being demonised as far right when they are in reality what used to be called small ‘c’ conservative. A little to the the right of ‘wet’ Tories which are really rightist Social Democrats, closer to being Blairite than anything. But then the whole Western Establishments have elected Social Democracy (Big Government, Big Regulation, Big Welfare, Big Redistribution, High Tax) to be the political centre even though most Native English over 45, for example, are naturally small ‘c’ conservative.
I suppose if a lie becomes Bigly enough, no one can escape it. With perpetual expansion of government, responsibility and accountability are inaccessible , somewhere in the future, not in the here and now, where handlers at the forefront are either left to absorb the flak or paid to channel it to some unknown future resolution to be applied only after circumstance has changed. We live in a fluid world where capitulation is the only access to result, anything to distract from the focus of immediate concern and replace it with failed understanding as a starting point for a programmed reassembly at the discretion of a concensus that is either imposed or may never exist.
Just like doing the laundry.
Even stepping away from hyperbole, “right” is inherently somewhat different in Europe than in the US. Simply on account of where they came from. The Euros from a position of preserving at least many of the institutions of the Ancien Regime. While the American right looks back to a history of starting anew, with as little of any “regime” as possible. Just God, guns, gold and….. that’s pretty much it.
Of course, those that now claim to carry the banner for the “right” even in the US, are, at best, more like their Euro brethren: Primarily interested in a strong regime, to protect what they perceive as their own birthright privilege
Rather than the kind of barely noticeable state, without a standing army at all but a citizenry entirely unrestricted at the gun shop, that the founders envisioned. Hence what properly defined conservatism in the US definitionally points back to
Le Pen is where she belongs – a tiny little thing. Anyhow – let the fun begin – Macron will push very hard from day one to get his programs through – I expect massive demos on the street of Paris.
Yes, and Obama is where he belongs, probably on another exotic over-the-top holiday somewhere.
I never expected US participation in the streets of Paris when freedom of expression proponents marched in support of slain Charlie Hebdo writers. Alas, there was none as Obama forbid it.
Now we’re expected to believe Le Pen is the problem? Good luck, you will need it.
If there are no mass demonstrations in Paris in this fall, Macron is not doing what he promised and what he must do. France needs some painful reforms and if Macron cannot do it now, nobody will.
Mish and his alt-right pals here were hoping for months that Le Pens wins. Her 8 seats show how they were out of touch with the reality. EU will fall apart, Trump will be a good president, Brexit is good for the UK, an off-the-cliffs Brexit even better – yeah, these predictions are as good as betting for Le Pen.
It’s easy to talk change.
What happens if the new jobs created are taken by migrating Eastern Europeans that work harder and longer for less helping to create an underclass of French unemployed.
How is Macron guaranteeing French jobs for French workers?
Surely saying and doing so is against EU single market employment regulations or will language skills be used as a barrier with so few speaking French?
Will they ban English?
How will they avoid being washed away by the globalisation Macron loves when the language is diminishing and there are millions ready to migrate for French pay and conditions?
French glory left the building in 1848. In 1871 it was laying in a ditch by the side of the road, put there by the dreaded Hun. By 1914 the French glory had made so many concessions, compromises, and mutual destruction pacts out of fear of the Hun, its glory left in the trenches. By 1940 the French glory had committed suicide with a little help from the Hun. In 1960, after having its glory kicked around the globe, France embarked on another grand scheme. This time the grande alliance of an European Union. They voted against German participation and then against reunification. Now the little drummer boy, Macaroon, leads the parade to assure that the Hum, once again, dominates his country. The last glory of France was given to it by a Corsican. Macaroon is no Corsican. Thirty nine percent turn out, ain’t got much glory.
That’s a pretty good summary.
It’s the 3 wars they lost since 1870s that keep the French under and on side.
They know they can’t do anything but tag along with Germany as every time they butt up against them the French lose. Every time.
True, in 1919 they won the truce and lost the war. But the french don’t really know their own history, the Americans stopped learning theirs fifty years ago, and the English have been lulled to sleep by a one channel television system called socialism. They have forgotten what a good English ruler is: twelve inches to the foot or Lord Protector Cromwell who would herding the unbelievers today into warrens and yelling, “Off with their heads!” He took a no nonsense approach to government. Interesting period in your history.
I am a Civil War buff.
One of his quotes below that resonates to this day in every walk of life.
To know what you believe, to love what you believe, and being prepared to fight for it.
* “I HAD RATHER HAVE A PLAIN RUSSET-COATED CAPTAIN THAT KNOWS WHAT HE FIGHTS FOR, AND LOVES WHAT HE KNOWS, THAN THAT WHICH YOU CALL A GENTLEMAN AND IS NOTHING ELSE.”
A Letter from Cromwell to Sir William Spring. Sept. 1643.
May be apt today given the start date of negotiations.
Wish them well.
* “WE STUDY THE GLORY OF GOD, AND THE HONOUR AND LIBERTY OF PARLIAMENT, FOR WHICH WE UNAMINOUSLY FIGHT, WITHOUT SEEKING OUR OWN INTERESTS….”
Ah yes. It’s been said in many ways. good quote, I like it. Few individuals know that if the accounts are somewhat accurate, more lives were lost during the English civil wars than in the Great World War. Quite a sobering thought. But then our own (American) civil war causalities were greater than both world wars. Civil wars tend to be the most bitterly fought and most destructive.