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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  • Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    So what was the point of that alliance, exactly? Macron isn’t willing to govern with his partners, duely elected by the people. He wants to dictate to the masses, his own will, believing himself to be above all. This is why the fascists got as far as they have in the first place. After his party did right thing to stop them, Macron is going right back to the politics that is handing France to the fascists on a silver platter.