French parliamentary election: Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) projected to win first round, beating the leftist NPF alliance and Emmanuel Macron's centrist Ensemble

Gee, the title sure is sensationalist. Nothing has been 'won' yet. The actual percentage here don't matter, the system works using two rounds in each circonscription (subdiv of France which can elect 1 MP). What really matters now is who will call to vote for who. The NFP (Left Alliance) leaders said no vote for Far Right, and Macron (in spite of how much he shat on the left) called for a 'grand coalition against the RN' (RN being Far Right here).

And I'll repeat it as many times as it takes 34% IS FAR FROM 50% (The RN is unlikely to find allies, as all the traitors of the trad right wing party have already gone to them)

Edit: forgot to mention that not all votes have been counted yet, the big cities finishing up later, which will likely drive the NFP's score up and RN's down.

I get that immersion tends to normalization...
... but man, 34% is still a LOT. Especially when it's 2x the previous result and the largest bloc.
It'll be good if they are prevented from having easy access to legislative action, but it's still an underpants-threatening result in my book.
- 34% is already lower than what they polled (and it will go down more as cities' vote get counted). Though, you are right, the normalization of Far Right IS scary af. But it's not a recent thing in France, it started nearly two decades ago, but surged to an extreme during the past few years esp with:
  Bolloré (our own personal Murdock) bought more and more media, fired the journalists, and put propagandist in their place.
  Macron started taking Far Right's talking points (immigration), language ('national preference', which is a concept that makes no sense) and methods (just two days ago, his party made, published and propagated on social media a fake 'NUPES' (name of the last Left Alliance) website to calculate one's future pension based on their 'program'. As it turns out, the calculations were not based off their program at all and was nearly always defavorable to the person)
  Macron, when asked about the surge of Far Right, had only one response: bUt WhAt aBoUt tHe LeFt? (And goes on and on to try and sell a 'both sides' to try and make himself more popular. Spoilers: it didn't work) It's also why it's refreshingly suprirsing to not hear him bash 'theLleft' tonight, and instead call on everyone to vote against Far Right.
- These days it seems there’s a rough third of the population in most places that’s stupid and/or bigoted enough to vote for shit like this. Those numbers don’t shock me. But I’m hoping France proves more resistant at the national level to the hyperconservative/neofascist resurgence at the we’re seeing in a distressing number of countries.
- I expected better from the French. It's disheartening watching Fascism take root globally like this. 34% is 34% too much.

how many surprised faces will there be when the right fails to actually do anything substantial for the common voter and just fills up their pockets with gov funds (see: hungary)

If Hungary shows us something, the answer is "not enough"
By then it'll be unfortunately too late, with laws and policies that might take decades to undo.
Fascists? Enriching themselves at the expense of the state? This happens?!
See Argentina, too.
That's exactly Macron's plan. Have the right-wingers fuck up bad so his chances are better at the presidential elections in three years.
- Impressive how you write with total conviction, yet are utterly wrong.

I get that the French weren't a fan of the Nazi invasion, but avoiding it happening again by pre-empting it with their own Nazi rule isn't the best option.

- Conservatives need to stop projecting their kinks into real life. It ain't healthy.
They were such fans, they collaborated with zeal.

Please stop calling Macron's party centrist. It's right wing and has always been, regardless of what they pretend.

Macron in the middle
- lol
I think it's reasonable to call it centrist, despite also being right-wing (ie centre-right)
To me, centrism isn't just about being somewhere in the middle between the left and right of the political environment, but also about having policies that make small adjustments to the current system, as opposed to fundamental, large scale change
- Then you are forever looking out the Overton window, and are beholden to those who move it. In this case, Macron has moved it, so you think it's the center.
- having policies that make small adjustments to the current system
  Well, that's not really what happened the past few years. Civil rights and social protections have been degraded wayyy faster than by previous rightwing (not claiming to be centrist) governments. Structural change has happened several times, making big changes in some areas. Macron and their buddies don't want to play it small, they want to make big changes.
- policies that make small adjustments to the current system, as opposed to fundamental, large scale change
  The word you're looking for is “conservative”

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité

Unless I see a Muslim person on the street, then we're locking everything down and it's every man for himself.

Everything old is new again.

"Those people are dangerous, so we need to make a government that kills people." The world is willing to burn because a few people who are different exist nearby.

National Rally are basically the French equivalent of the British National Party, and they are right wing as fuck.

When they're leading in the polls, you know that Sarkozy, Hollande and Macron fucked up hard.

Well done France. This is democracy in action. Ignore the people and tell them what they want, they will just find someone that will listen to them.

All the left/centrist parties in the world just need to look at Denmark and the far right will go away within one election cycle.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/denmark-european-election-how-center-fended-off-populist-right-by-michael-ehrenreich-2024-06

Yes, but the moment you tighten immigration and say stuff like we can't help everyone, the radical left immediately brands you a nazi, same as the constant harping about centrists.
In the end there are problems with migrants and these need to be adressed. Povery Beiing an important one, but culture and language as well.
At the same time you also need to not forget the smaller towns. Once bus service stops and the last local grocery store closes, it's dead. So then what. People left there feel forgotten, because they are. The free market deemed them unprofitable and left them behind.
- Exactly. That's what's happened in Denmark. The facts speak for themselves.
  This website is so extremist even the you talking about why this is happening is being down voted. This website doesn't not like anything that exists outside of their bubble.

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The real news is that Melenchon has finally managed to make it to the second round. And the question now is whether Macron's voters are as compromised about stopping fascism as they've claimed for years to the point that they'll vote to horrified gasp raise their taxes.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is urging voters to give her National Rally an "absolute majority" in parliament after estimates showed her party won 34% of the vote.

With France's next parliament set to be decided in the runoff vote next Sunday, leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon said his New Popular Front (NFP) is ready to tactically drop election races if it helps beat far-right RN.

Melenchon is one of the most divisive figures in French politics, enthusing and horrifying voters with his unrestrained tax-and-spend proposals, class war rhetoric and controversial foreign policy positions, probably most notably his longstanding call for France to pull out of NATO.

Earlier in the day, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the National Rally (RN), which is favored to take most of the votes in the poll, also cast her ballot in her party's stronghold in northern France.

Macron's party has said it is committed to cutting the budget deficit to the EU ceiling of 3% of GDP by 2027, but the possibility of achieving this has been called into doubt by institutions from the national auditor to the International Monetary Fund.

Its president, Jordan Bardella, has said that if chosen as prime minister, he would not allow French missiles to be delivered to Ukraine that can strike targets within Russia itself, let alone send troops to the conflict, an idea floated by Macron.

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Can't wait for World War 4 because some white nazi woman wins an election. It will shut up the feminists who believe women are better than men. Women are just as human and just as shit.

You are such an astonishingly stupid misogynist that you don't even realize these elections aren't about a new president and MLP isn't going to be elected in July. You simply prefer to badmouth feminists because no sane woman is attracted in you instead of engaging your brain for even a second.