France Election Results: Country Set for Gridlock After Left Coalition Win

France is heading into an extended period of political gridlock after a shock defeat for Marine Le Pen’s far right in Sunday’s elections produced a divided parliament with no clear majority. Bloomberg's Caroline Connan explains.

[ortho-g]

It's amazing to me that people dont yet realize that they are not actually voting

[kzcwgjw]

I thought our American election system and political system was too narrow and broken. But now I see that the French system is Byzantine and designed to ensure the Status Quo remains intact. Sheer gridlock.

[cduke]

Did the french have Dominion machines as well? 😂

[Colossus-Tone]

Notice how anything not liberal or communistic is "far right", but when their party is addressed, it's just the "left." 😄

[eleg]

Franch election: an action and horror movie

[beigegaming]

Turns out, the loudest in the room aren’t always the favorite. Some people go harm and then speak their peace. Just like in the voting booth.

[jepox]

They don’t know that their macron was trying to leave bec their economy is crashing down 😂

[christopherchilton-smith]

Gridlock is preferable to right wing rule, this is a win for France.

[mikebloise]

Poll workers manipulating the ballot count for their candidate !

[NuVibes.]

The extremes of political ideology has to be curtailed.

[NarbsWorldTV]

Control systems are overrated, when regulation is applied to self regulating systems it eventually causes catastrophe.

[acf]

France never met florigen invasion it wouldn't let conquer it.

[cqqmpsz]

Any politican who is unable negotiate and make compromises should immediately be booted from office. This should be true of all countries.

[Snake.br]

Why can't there be just a center ? And what does this have to do with America?

[pijushghosh]

Where is the party wise breakdown of seats won and percentage of votes secured?

[stphinkle]

The French People have spoken. They need to respect their vote and if the dominant party is now the far left, they should adopt their policies more. There is nothing wrong with this.

[nfpnone]

This is why you cannot have competitive partisan modes of assembly! You will never get the composition that you need to operate a legislative assembly to reach a majority consensus! The majority is not formed by assembly to determine composition and control of the legislative assembly, we are trying to reach a majority consensus of all the members of a legislative assembly. HUGE DIFFERENCE.

By the way, the government must be formed in a manner which establishes continuity and stability, it cannot be reformed after every partisan election!

Y'all gonna be a 3ed world country soon 😂

[chrisstoltz]

Maybe gridlock might be a good thing for France. It might allow things to stabilize for a time. Also, if anything needs to be done, it truly has to be bi partisan. No super majority means no one party can do whatever they want and make rapid drastic changes.

Who knows? We shall see...

[kevinwenn]

Fk, now the french will get more good players in their national soccer team. We're doomed