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[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago

How does that work? What's the point of a parliment if the president just appoints whoever they want?

[-] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The left won but it didn't have an absolute majority, not even close, macron got second place and the far right got third. Ultimately, the president has to appoint a prime-minister (a government) to be approved by the parliament.

How it usually goes in france is that even if the president is not of the same party as the largest party in parliament, he'll still appoint a PM from that party and you have what's called "co-habitation" between the president and government sharing power.

Macron instead of doing that made a deal with the far-right to get their votes in appointing a center-right (not from the far-right party) prime-minister instead. So, ultimately yeah he probably has the right to do that legally but when you see people calling that outrageous they're making a political statement that macron preferred to share power with the far right than with the left

[-] jack@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago
[-] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

He just wants normal beer!

[-] Hexboare@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

The outrageous part is that Macron was using the left/socdem front party to stop them getting seats, and then turns around and forms government with them

134 NFP and 82 Ensemble candidates withdrew despite qualifying for the run-off in order to reduce the RN's chances of winning an absolute majority of seats

[-] miz@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

to give an illusion of democratic representation while making sure the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie always has a veto on movement to the left

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

Spectacle, bread and circuses

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

the fifth republic orbits around the president (no surprise, it was created by de Gaulle), it's not a real parliamentary system

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

It's called the illsuion of choice.

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