France: French President Emmanuel Macron (RE-RE) states that he will dissolve the national parliament for snap elections. This decision follows the poor result from the Bd’E list his party was leading in the European Parliament election, which only received 15.2% of the votes…

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1. Wow, will this just not be a confirmed easy win for Le Pen’s party then?

2. What does this mean?

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4. Why is he doing this? This’ll probably just give the right-wingers more seats, and I can’t see how that’s good for him.
   He says he’s worried about the nationalists, so why is he helping them?

5. Has he been spending too much time with Sunak? That sounds pretty risky…

6. What is the point of that with such a huge loss? That doesn’t make sense at all unless Macron is playing some 3D chess.

7. Oh shit.

   Le Pen as president. Putins dog. Well, I guess that’s bye bye to any support from France to Ukraine. What an absolute travesty. What was he thinking??

8. This seems like a very bad idea just look at the UK Tories right now…

9. I thought the official results are not even out at this point? Seems pretty crazy to me

10. Oof, is France about to experience its own Lega government arc?

11. Prime Minister Marine Le Pen incoming.

    This will be a shit show.

12. Le Pen will wipe floor with every other party :v

13. .. wow

14. What a moron !

15. Damn, guess this means Bardella will be the next PM

16. That’s quite the gamble.

17. This is the right move by Macron.

18. Is this the end of Macron then?

19. And if his party loses these elections, I hope he resigns.

20. ITT a whole bunch of people who do not realise how UK elections work. Sunak didn’t call a snap election, he called an election because this year Britain was due one, as Prime Minister he got to pick when it was, he just so happened to pick the date he did. This is *nothing* like Sunak calling a general election.

21. Sounds like Macron wants to imitate Hindenburg. Not exactly a good idea.

22. I’m guessing Macron is certain he will win and this way he can “set right” his loss in this election. The thing is Macron mainly won against the extreme right during the presidentials because a lot of people from the left voted for him not because they support him but to block the extreme right. However Macron never acknowledged this and never returned the favour. So this time they just might not do it.

23. Is it common to change the dates of parliament elections in France? I would like to think that it’s something that it’s not done lightly. When would the next parliament elections be without this decision?

24. Interesting that France and the UK both going for surprise electionsnat the same time. Something odd about that.

25. That’s too bad… I voted for RE. From Belgium btw

26. bye bye you macaron

27. This won’t end well, iirc France never had had a far right government, let’s cross fingers that this won’t be the first time. In my mind France is so fundamental in the human rights birth, with the revolution , I cannot comprehend how this can happen, I guess the french know better and they must be very frustrated with Macron 

    Also, France until now has been very supportive of Greece and the European integration in general, who knows what will happen with a new government 

28. IMO, it is good for the democracy that Macron dissolved the Parliament. It provides the opportunity to give legislative and executive power for three years to Le Pen. If she fails, and she might since the far right is full of incompetent people, it may work toward a new dynamic hampering the far right.

29. Goddammit France.

    France will become Puttin puppet and it’s an important nation with military power

30. Europe slowly becoming right wing is sad to observe. Somebody convinced everybody that the evil immigrants are going to destroy us even tho for the last 20+ years we have been depdendent on them.

31. Is he fucking insane?

32. President Macron and PM Le Pen dream team incoming. Enemies to lovers 👍

33. This is the difference between a democracy and the rest. I’m surprised to be proud of my country right now, but our situation was so much dire we needed a new dynamic, for so many reasons our democracy was in pain right now, and the parlementary elections following the presidential ones only by a few weeks was a total disaster, it’ll help clean our situation.

34. We’re getting a kot of snap elections recently in Western Europe.

    First Spain, then the UK, and now France (of those that I now of).

    Now we only need Germany and Italy to join the party and we get all of the big economies in Western Europe with snap elections.

35. Fuck