Pro-Macron and center-right lawmakers successfully pulled their votes together to stop the left from grabbing control of the National Assembly.

Emmanuel Macron’s party formed a last–minute agreement with right-leaning lawmakers to win a key vote in parliament on Thursday that opens the door to the French president playing a greater-than-expected role in forming the country’s next government.

The two political groups put together an ad-hoc alliance to reelect Yaël Braun-Pivet as head of the French National Assembly, the fourth highest-ranking official in France. The vote was widely seen as a test to see who could work together in France’s fractured parliament to name a future prime minister.

In combining their forces, the centrists and the center right seized political momentum while also delivering a stunning blow to their rivals further to the left.

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    • ceenote@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I said the Democrat leadership chose him. You said that doesn’t matter because he won the primary. I said he won the primary in part because Democrat leadership chose him, and here’s how. I never complained. What they did wasn’t cheating or illegal, and I don’t think it should be.

      No need to project a bunch of feelings onto me.

      • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        19·
        5 months ago

        It doesn’t matter. You either get votes or you don’t. They could’ve picked coalesced around anyone. What difference does it make? Bernie had a good a chance as anyone in 2020. He just didn’t win.

        You’re basically just rehashing the same “it isn’t fair” that a bunch of people do. It was completely fair but Bernie’s fanbase was not nearly as big. Or that didn’t show up. My entire point.

        Edit- lot of butthurt people that can’t accept reality evidently.