Violence has broken out on the streets of France following a surprise exit poll indicating that the New Popular Front, a coalition of far Left activists, environmentalists, Islamists and socialist has-beens like Francois Hollande, is heading for victory, dealing a blow to Marine Le Pen’s ambition to form the country’s next government. Among the NPF’s policies are lowering the retirement age from 64 to 60, raising the minimum wage, introducing price caps on food, gas and other essentials, increasing business taxes, restoring the wealth tax abolished by Macron and hiking up inheritance tax. The Mail has more.
Shocking footage shows hooded and masked protesters running through the streets, launching flares and setting France ablaze – after 30,000 riot police were deployed across France amid high political tension.
Baton-wielding police were seen racing around to stop outbreaks of violence, including in Place de la Republique in Paris and at demonstrations in Nantes, Lyon, Marseille and Rennes.
Firefighters were seen desperately trying to put flames out with fire extinguishers, while a riot police officer was seen being dragged away by colleagues after hitting the floor.
At this stage, it is not clear who is clashing with police. But it comes after the second round of polls predicted the hard-Right National Rally (RN) is on track to come third – having led the race after the first round.
The New Popular Front (NFP) alliance is on course to have 172-215 MPs with Emmanuel Macron’s centrists on 150-180 seats and the RN on 115-155, according to projections by four leading polling firms.
Veteran Presidential candidate Le Pen’s RN led the race after the June 30th first round, with opinion polls predicting that she would lead the biggest party in Parliament, but projections for the party were much lower than anticipated.
The New Popular Front (NFP) was formed last month, bringing together socialists, greens, communists and the hard-Left into one camp – but while it leads in the exit polls, it does not have enough seats for a majority.
The lack of majority for any single alliance has plunged France into political and economic turmoil. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said he would offer Macron his resignation on Monday but was ready to serve “as long as duty demands”, notably in light of the imminent Games.
Some 30,000 riot police – including 5,000 in and around Paris – have been deployed to “ensure that the radical Right and radical Left do not take advantage of the situation to cause mayhem”, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
France now faces the prospect of weeks of political machinations to determine who will be Prime Minister and lead the National Assembly.
And Macron faces the prospect of leading the country alongside a Prime Minister opposed to most of his domestic policies.
In a sombre speech after the second-round legislative election, Jordan Bardella, the President of the far-Right RN, denounced the political manoeuvring that led the National Rally to fall far short of expectations.
An unprecedented number of candidates who qualified for the runoff stepped aside to allow an opponent to go head-to-head with the National Rally candidate, increasing the chances of defeating them.
Despite projections widely considered disappointing for the anti-immigration, nationalist party, it still increased its seat count in Parliament to an unprecedented high, according to polling projections.
“Tonight, by deliberately taking the responsibility to paralyse our institutions, Emmanuel Macron… is consequently depriving the French people of any responses to their daily problems for many months to come,” Bardella said.
Hard-Left France Unbowed leader Jean-Luc Melenchon, giving his first reaction, called on French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal to resign and said the Left-wing coalition was ready to govern.
“The French people have voted with a conscience,” said Melenchon, a former Presidential candidate and one of the main leaders of the NPF. “Our people have clearly ruled out the worst solution to our problems.”
Melenchon welcomed “a result that had seemed impossible”, adding: “This evening the RN is far from having an absolute majority. This is a huge relief for millions of people who make up the new France.”
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Yes, slippery Macron had to resort to underhand tactics ( inc one hell of a media hate campaign against Le Pen’s party ) in order to pull it off, now he’s left with an ungovernable country. He’s shit the bed and now has to lie in it;
”For all his supposed fastidiousness, France’s President Emmanuel Macron knows how to make a mess.
He first surprised himself in the first round of French parliamentary elections, which called on a dare to voters, after conservatives’ strong showing in Europe’s parliamentary elections in early June, he did indeed win the conservatives significant power in the National Assembly on the first round.
That prompted him to go to plan B, which was to ‘suicide’ his own centrist Ensemble party and pull many of its candidates from the election, effectively throwing his support to the far-left, which had placed third in the first round last week.
Anything but allow the conservatives led by National Rally leader, Marine Le Pen, to win the election.
Now he’s got left-wing crazies in his majority and has to answer to them, much as Britain must now answer to its Labour party far left based on its election last week. In each of those countries, the center did not hold.
Macron is going to have a tough time governing now that he’s got radical leftists to deal with, over the conservatives led by Le Pen. And he will have no one to blame but himself, having attempted to manipulate the system by yanking his own candidates running for office, prefering the radical left over the populist right, which voters gave him.
What we are looking at here is a French version of Trump derangement syndrome in Europe, demonstrating the depths of contempt for ordinary voters held by the political elites.
It need never have happened, had he not panicked and called his snap election daring the voters once, and had he not tried to manipulate the vote again by pulling his own candidates from the second round, this never would have happened. But since he was too clever by half, he now gets the vast horde of leftists as his political bunkmates.”
Only 34% voted RN. The other 66% made a choice to vote for someone else, knowing the likely outcome. We have to face the fact that a lot of our fellow citizens are either asleep, stupid or seem to want to destroy our countries.
RTSC
9 months ago
If I was a German taxpayer, I’d be very, very worried. Thanks to the EU they’re joined at the hip with these Communist nutters and thanks to the Euro, they’re on the hook to pay for it.
The German pension age is still formally 65 but it’s expected that it will sooner or later first rise to 70 and then, beyond 70 because of “costs”. And Germany underwriting government debt of the whole eurozone is a large part of these costs, as are all kinds of international vanity projects¹ of the ruling class, a somewhat notorious example being spending billions on building cycle lanes in Peru “to save the planet”. At the same time, the story for anything needed in Germany is “there’s no money for it”, at least if it’s not either investment in so-called renewables or care&feeding of immigrants.
¹ That’s the friendly description. The unfriendly is that this is Greens (mostly) and SPD shelling out money to their buddies in international NGOs and ‘green’ businesses to waste it on doing something which “sounds green” somewhere.
In a nutshell that was what Julian Assange exposed. The removing of public money and putting it in private hands, that was his assessment of the war in Afghanistan.
As far as I know, Germany has already to highest retirement age of all of Europe and it’s set to rise. In contrast to this, the French retirement age is supposed to be lowered by 4 years. That’s quite a bit of a difference.
This is why I have no hope for any reform through the political system.
Whether we like it or not, we now have a population that want state intervention, want to be taken care of, think they can use the state to rip off the most productive people in our society and live off them.
If you propose to the population that they stop asking for hand outs, take away regulations and start taking charge and responsibility for their own lives they’ll laugh at you at best and call you a fascist at worst.
The state has corrupted far too many people with their hand outs and indoctrinated too many of the productive people into thinking they owe a debt to the rest of society.
Am I missing something?
As far as I can see Marine Le-Pen’s RN party would stand comparison with Charles De Gaulle, Harold Macmillan and even possibly Mrs Thatcher. I do not get this far right/hard right designation at all? If they are doing all this to keep out the, to my mind, fairly mild, middle of the road, RN then I can only conclude they were all up to no good and are trying to keep RN out for fear that the whole scam is about to be blown open. Like a bunch of naughty schoolboys about to be caught scrumping apples in the local orchard.
If I am correct? then the scam can only go on so long, as others are pointing out, someone has to pay for all this and they have already scrumped the magic money tree until it can bear no more fruit to fund all this. If parties like RN do not call time on some of this stuff then soon enough the financial markets will do this anyway. The age of the Western European jamboree, funded on German manufacturing and magic money is, like the Roman Empire, heading for a decline.
The left is this clutter of interests. The Muslims and migrants want open borders so nothing can stop them arriving. The Socialists want the rich taxed to kingdom come. The Environmentalists, which are really just anti capitalists want the removal of cheap energy from fossil fuels and Nuclear because it is the driver of Industrial Capitalism. And ofcourse all of them want the “free stuff” that left wing parties keep bribing the populace with in this endless dive down into the cesspit of leftist ideological disaster.
Apparently Macron was even threatening to invoke Article 16, which would suspend parliament and give him emergency powers. So if that doesn’t sound like coercion ( and desperation on his part ) I don’t know what does.
The RN is the continuation of the Front National founded by Le Pen’s father who was indeed, as far as I remember, a committed Nazi¹. She wrestled control of it from him and turned into what would have been described as centre-right party 25 years ago. But it’s still a French party (and still has national in the name) and nowadays, everything which isn’t outright communism is referred to as far right (loaded simplification).
That’s Melenchon’s new France, ie, the country of unlimited immigration. He’ll note that the muslims may tactially ally with him but have an entirely different agenda “soon enough”. Until that, he’ll turn a blind eye to this for as long as it translates into his party controlling the levers of government for its own benefit.
¹ This is explicitly a statement of fact and not a value judgement.
In this country muslims have realised they no longer need the Labour Party and are now going it alone. It won’t be long before the same thing happens in France, perhaps less than twelve months.
Once the muslims in France organise themselves the country will explode.
France continues toward collapse. The communist mindset is well embedded across Europe. It will lead to disorder and societal collapse. Hopefully that will then cause strong men to rise and take power and control. The leftists who enabled this disaster can then be punished.
They’ll never be punished since the system exists to excuse them. Why is Alistair Campbell working for channel 4 when responsible for mass murder in Iraq and causing David Kelly’s death.
Coming to a street near you. Don’t worry though, we all get to play being boss and vote for our favourite psychopath again in another four years time. I do enjoy Fancy Dress Day.
soundofreason
9 months ago
Antifa and Islamists Riot in France After *Winning* Second Round of Parliamentary Election
Oh come on! They were severely provoked! /sarc
Heretic
9 months ago
That’s because they have no other aim than the Total Destruction of the West.
Ron Smith
9 months ago
“This is a huge relief for millions of people who make up the new France.”
It is not a huge relief for those that are worried about the Islamification of France.
So, a few years of pain for the French (Macron will have far more trouble with Melanchon’s coalition than he would have had with Le Pen) might produce something positive.
One can only hope that the chaos that will ensue will give Le Pen time to consolidate. Her party have now achieved more seats in the French parliament than ever before (increase from 89 to around 142) despite her missing out on overall majority thanks to some fanatical gerrymandering by the far left (think Corbyn only worse).
However Stewart’s comment is sounding tragically prescient. The French people have sent the Hard Left the message that violence and intimidation gets them what they want. Why would they stop now?
Jackthegripper
9 months ago
the President of the far-Right RN,
Please explain why the RN is “far-Right” and which of their policies make them so?
And what’s the difference between that description and “hard right” or “extreme right”. It’s all nonsense designed to confuse us and shame ordinary people who dare to speak out and engage in political debate. Serious commentators should know better than to use these terms. Call me whatever you want but it only makes me more determined to speak freely on whatever matter I choose because the slurs are so stupid.
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These lefty Chunts are deluded , the French people didn’t ask or vote for this bunch of charlatans to join forces to thwart any sense of Democracy !
Yes, slippery Macron had to resort to underhand tactics ( inc one hell of a media hate campaign against Le Pen’s party ) in order to pull it off, now he’s left with an ungovernable country. He’s shit the bed and now has to lie in it;
”For all his supposed fastidiousness, France’s President Emmanuel Macron knows how to make a mess.
He first surprised himself in the first round of French parliamentary elections, which called on a dare to voters, after conservatives’ strong showing in Europe’s parliamentary elections in early June, he did indeed win the conservatives significant power in the National Assembly on the first round.
That prompted him to go to plan B, which was to ‘suicide’ his own centrist Ensemble party and pull many of its candidates from the election, effectively throwing his support to the far-left, which had placed third in the first round last week.
Anything but allow the conservatives led by National Rally leader, Marine Le Pen, to win the election.
Now he’s got left-wing crazies in his majority and has to answer to them, much as Britain must now answer to its Labour party far left based on its election last week. In each of those countries, the center did not hold.
Macron is going to have a tough time governing now that he’s got radical leftists to deal with, over the conservatives led by Le Pen. And he will have no one to blame but himself, having attempted to manipulate the system by yanking his own candidates running for office, prefering the radical left over the populist right, which voters gave him.
What we are looking at here is a French version of Trump derangement syndrome in Europe, demonstrating the depths of contempt for ordinary voters held by the political elites.
It need never have happened, had he not panicked and called his snap election daring the voters once, and had he not tried to manipulate the vote again by pulling his own candidates from the second round, this never would have happened. But since he was too clever by half, he now gets the vast horde of leftists as his political bunkmates.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/france_macron_s_latest_political_scheme_worked_only_too_well_this_time.html
Morning Moggsy , I’ve said this before but what a laugh it would be for us lot on here to meet up somewhere before it’s too late , any takers
I am Freddy.
Sure
We would need to make sure no cameras captured all the “Hate Crimes”
Yes I’m in
Only 34% voted RN. The other 66% made a choice to vote for someone else, knowing the likely outcome. We have to face the fact that a lot of our fellow citizens are either asleep, stupid or seem to want to destroy our countries.
If I was a German taxpayer, I’d be very, very worried. Thanks to the EU they’re joined at the hip with these Communist nutters and thanks to the Euro, they’re on the hook to pay for it.
The German pension age is still formally 65 but it’s expected that it will sooner or later first rise to 70 and then, beyond 70 because of “costs”. And Germany underwriting government debt of the whole eurozone is a large part of these costs, as are all kinds of international vanity projects¹ of the ruling class, a somewhat notorious example being spending billions on building cycle lanes in Peru “to save the planet”. At the same time, the story for anything needed in Germany is “there’s no money for it”, at least if it’s not either investment in so-called renewables or care&feeding of immigrants.
¹ That’s the friendly description. The unfriendly is that this is Greens (mostly) and SPD shelling out money to their buddies in international NGOs and ‘green’ businesses to waste it on doing something which “sounds green” somewhere.
In a nutshell that was what Julian Assange exposed. The removing of public money and putting it in private hands, that was his assessment of the war in Afghanistan.
Taxpayers are being rinsed across the Western world.
As far as I know, Germany has already to highest retirement age of all of Europe and it’s set to rise. In contrast to this, the French retirement age is supposed to be lowered by 4 years. That’s quite a bit of a difference.
They are really rioting because they heard about the Labour plan to apppoint a new gang-busting czar.
This is why I have no hope for any reform through the political system.
Whether we like it or not, we now have a population that want state intervention, want to be taken care of, think they can use the state to rip off the most productive people in our society and live off them.
If you propose to the population that they stop asking for hand outs, take away regulations and start taking charge and responsibility for their own lives they’ll laugh at you at best and call you a fascist at worst.
The state has corrupted far too many people with their hand outs and indoctrinated too many of the productive people into thinking they owe a debt to the rest of society.
This only ends with collapse, I’m afraid to say.
Yep the west is on the Zimbabwe path.
100% agree as usual. For now, the argument has been lost.
Am I missing something?
As far as I can see Marine Le-Pen’s RN party would stand comparison with Charles De Gaulle, Harold Macmillan and even possibly Mrs Thatcher. I do not get this far right/hard right designation at all? If they are doing all this to keep out the, to my mind, fairly mild, middle of the road, RN then I can only conclude they were all up to no good and are trying to keep RN out for fear that the whole scam is about to be blown open. Like a bunch of naughty schoolboys about to be caught scrumping apples in the local orchard.
If I am correct? then the scam can only go on so long, as others are pointing out, someone has to pay for all this and they have already scrumped the magic money tree until it can bear no more fruit to fund all this. If parties like RN do not call time on some of this stuff then soon enough the financial markets will do this anyway. The age of the Western European jamboree, funded on German manufacturing and magic money is, like the Roman Empire, heading for a decline.
The left is this clutter of interests. The Muslims and migrants want open borders so nothing can stop them arriving. The Socialists want the rich taxed to kingdom come. The Environmentalists, which are really just anti capitalists want the removal of cheap energy from fossil fuels and Nuclear because it is the driver of Industrial Capitalism. And ofcourse all of them want the “free stuff” that left wing parties keep bribing the populace with in this endless dive down into the cesspit of leftist ideological disaster.
They should be trying very hard to avoid War considering the need for mass production etc.
Apparently Macron was even threatening to invoke Article 16, which would suspend parliament and give him emergency powers. So if that doesn’t sound like coercion ( and desperation on his part ) I don’t know what does.
The RN is the continuation of the Front National founded by Le Pen’s father who was indeed, as far as I remember, a committed Nazi¹. She wrestled control of it from him and turned into what would have been described as centre-right party 25 years ago. But it’s still a French party (and still has national in the name) and nowadays, everything which isn’t outright communism is referred to as far right (loaded simplification).
That’s Melenchon’s new France, ie, the country of unlimited immigration. He’ll note that the muslims may tactially ally with him but have an entirely different agenda “soon enough”. Until that, he’ll turn a blind eye to this for as long as it translates into his party controlling the levers of government for its own benefit.
¹ This is explicitly a statement of fact and not a value judgement.
In this country muslims have realised they no longer need the Labour Party and are now going it alone. It won’t be long before the same thing happens in France, perhaps less than twelve months.
Once the muslims in France organise themselves the country will explode.
“heading for a decline.”
Heading for collapse.
If anything, many of Le Pen’s economic policies are pretty socialist – it’s her stance on immigration that gets the left riled up.
It’s the difference between Socialists being National, sorry, Patriotic, and International, sorry again, Globalist.
Fear not the BBC will be all over these riots….
If they did they would call them ‘far right’.
A leaderless pact, what could possibly go wrong?
France continues toward collapse. The communist mindset is well embedded across Europe. It will lead to disorder and societal collapse. Hopefully that will then cause strong men to rise and take power and control. The leftists who enabled this disaster can then be punished.
They’ll never be punished since the system exists to excuse them. Why is Alistair Campbell working for channel 4 when responsible for mass murder in Iraq and causing David Kelly’s death.
Coming to a street near you. Don’t worry though, we all get to play being boss and vote for our favourite psychopath again in another four years time. I do enjoy Fancy Dress Day.
Oh come on! They were severely provoked! /sarc
That’s because they have no other aim than the Total Destruction of the West.
“This is a huge relief for millions of people who make up the new France.”
It is not a huge relief for those that are worried about the Islamification of France.
So, a few years of pain for the French (Macron will have far more trouble with Melanchon’s coalition than he would have had with Le Pen) might produce something positive.
One can only hope that the chaos that will ensue will give Le Pen time to consolidate. Her party have now achieved more seats in the French parliament than ever before (increase from 89 to around 142) despite her missing out on overall majority thanks to some fanatical gerrymandering by the far left (think Corbyn only worse).
However Stewart’s comment is sounding tragically prescient. The French people have sent the Hard Left the message that violence and intimidation gets them what they want. Why would they stop now?
Please explain why the RN is “far-Right” and which of their policies make them so?
And what’s the difference between that description and “hard right” or “extreme right”. It’s all nonsense designed to confuse us and shame ordinary people who dare to speak out and engage in political debate. Serious commentators should know better than to use these terms. Call me whatever you want but it only makes me more determined to speak freely on whatever matter I choose because the slurs are so stupid.