France's Election Results Explained

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France recently went to the polls for the second round of the General Assembly elections, a critical event featuring key political figures like President Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen, Jordan Bardella, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The results were unexpected without a clear majority. This video looks at what this means for France and what is likely to happen next.

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It feels like Macron said "you guys wont let me govern this country without complaining? Fine, you're all grounded! No government for anyone for 3 years!"

[aleshandsome]

Countries: No Majority Gov...Coalition?
Other countries: Minority Government?
France: How about No Government?

[DesiCarAssistant]

"Once upon a time, there was a beautiful country called

[hareecionelson]

UK: our election was very exciting
France: tiens mon vin

[MikeSavage-ir]

"how do you govern a country with 246 different kinds of cheese" Charles de Gaulle

[Tydan]

These are beautiful democracies ! In France ; you can have 37% of the votes and get only 24% of the seats : In the UK; you can have 33% of the votes and get 67% of the seats...

[alejandro]

I live in France and this was better explained than all the french videos I've watched so far. Bravo.

[Anakena]

I’m French, congrats for the clarity of this summary! Well done 👍

[Lorendrawn]

"EU made simple" is one of the most daunting tasks you could have ever conceived so thanks for doing it well!

[ReSunDestin]

I'm french and both this video and the one you made before about french elections were extremely accurate, rare to see on the english side of the internet, so keep up the good work

[dashdash]

People celebrating "democracy" while voting for the people they actively complain about.

[charlesbrown]

EU MADE SIMPLE -- THANK YOU!

Thank you for the elegantly simple explanation and intuitive graphics. As a US resident, the way these parliamentary elections work has always befuddled me. Thank you for doing such a well-thought-out presentation to clarify the French election results.

Merci !

[lukeyoung]

Loving the way you structure your videos! You broke down a complex topic in a refreshingly simple way. On top of that, you did it in a non-partisan manner. Well done!

[KyrieFortune]

Honestly, Macron did this so that the far-right would not win, and I think he knew that he had little chances of winning too. So, really, despite the absolute madness that's about to unfold, Macron still won because he got what he wanted.
Or, quoting a terrible movie, "I don't care if I win, I just want Le Pen to lose".

[Heldensocke-nhcj]

It always confuses me how we have newspapers reporting over months how far right everything has become and we will have a far right ensemble and then all of a sudden everyone has a sleep about it and voted for the exact opposite? WTF

[mats]

This was very informative. I didn't see a better explanation anywhere 👏

[Farconer]

Hello, French here. Nice video, very well explained. I don't predict the future, but for me, the government will be blocked and Macron will probably dissolve the Assembly next year. The 5th Republic is not meant to have 3 blocs in the Assembly.

[ourioudenohr]

As a french, i am interested in how things will play out. Please note that this situation will last for at least a year.

[ImperatorAlexanderAugustus]

As a French speaker myself from Switzerland who follows closely French politics, people are only seeing part of the picture in this parliamentary election. Let me explain in 5 points :

1. The NFP is a coalition of parties not a single one. The biggest party of this coalition is the Far-Left party France Unbound which counts for around 15% of all French voters. The Socialist Party comes second with around 10%.
In the opposite, the seats that the National Rally won are almost exclusively for their party making them almost double their number of seat in parliament from before.

2. The NFP is a very heterogeneous coalition with parties that are always infighting on almost every issue. Like NUPES before, they are really likely to collapse and not endure after the new appointment of Parliament. On issues like Palestine, the EU, Ukraine, economic reforms etc. France Unbound and the Socialist Party for example are complete opposites. Making the collation very likely to collapse in the near future in Parliament.

3. This election fragmented Ensemble and the Republicans. Even if they won more seats than expected, the latter is shifting more and more towards the National Rally because of the left-leaning alliance of Ensemble. There were even splits in the party before the elections. For Ensemble it’s the same, the right-leaning members of Macron’s party are very skeptical of this alliance and are very likely to block initiatives from the left and join a more rightist party for 2027.

4.Like mentioned before, if (or more likely, when) the NFP will collapse, the RN will have a relative majority in Parliament anyway due to the fact that it’s their own party who won the additional seats and not a coalition.

5. The fact that overall the French electorate is more to the right than to the left, like we saw in the first round, is gonna make the situation particularly tense if a left-leaning government is put in place in a deadlock parliament. This will radicalise the right and make it even more popular, due to this feeling of betrayal by the political system of France. And when in 2027 Macron will not be able to present himself again, the situation might become really dire and serious for the entire country due to the polarisation of the entire political spectrum.