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Following election thriller, will France have world’s most democratically representative parliament?

An alliance of French left-wing parties was on course Sunday to beat the far right and President Emmanuel Macron's coalition in a stunning outcome to parliamentary elections that plunges France into new political uncertainty. No one group won an absolute majority in the second round of the poll, which leaves France without any clear path to forming a new government three weeks before the Paris Olympics. With no group even close to the 289 seats needed for an absolute majority to form a government, France 24 is joined by Mathieu Doiret, IPSOS Director of Polling and Knowledge Centre Researcher.

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  1. Can’t believe they are replaying this clip, where the host makes a huge mistake by saying that Mélenchon wanted Macron to step down. France24 performed poorly on YouTube today, a very big day.

  2. France is now in a deadlock due to hung parliament. Now the French government is paralysed. That’s exactly what I wanted as a pro-China person.😎🇨🇳

    • You are right, National Rally (and its UXD allies) got the largest percentage of votes in the second round of any party (37.1%), but the least amount of seats among the 3 main camps in the National Assembly (104 seats won in the 2nd round, 142 seats total or 24.6% of seats)

      Macron’s “Ensemble” (ENS) won the least percentage of votes (among the 3 main camps) again in the 2nd round (24.5%), but got more seats than RN (157 seats in the 2nd round, 159 total or 27.6% of seats).
      The New Popular Front (NFP) won 25.8% of the vote in the second round (less than they got in the first round), but won 148 seats in said second round, to reach 180 seats total. (31.2% of seats)
      The Republicans (LR) won 5.4% of votes in the second round, and won 38 seats in the second round, reaching 39 seats total (6.8% of seats).

      ENS, NFP, and LR all got a percentage of seat share greater than their percentage of votes in either round. RN (with UXD) got a percentage of seat share lower than their percentage of the vote in either round.

      Unfortunately for RN, France does not use a proportional system. Personally, while not an RN supporter, I would like to see a more proportional system, while also acknowledging the need for local representatives to reflect the specific needs of their represented region. Perhaps a mixed system could be applicable, with candidates representing individual districts, but also some legislators elected “at-large” from party lists (with voters voting for the party/list/coalition of their choice) that is distributed proportionally.

  3. Let us make a projection that ignores tactical voting, that projects a NR majority. Don’t update the projection based on candidates that have dropped off. Claim that left-wing parties “beat far right” despite getting fewer votes, because of tactical voting with the center. Finally, claim that this is the most democratically representative parliament despite a big skew between vote totals and representation. Propaganda much? Maybe this is a good result, maybe a bad one. But at least be honest and say that the French system accomplished its goal of not being democratic, and moving things to the center. And at this point, the center is more scared of the fairly unified right then the divided left.

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