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Reg posted...

I'm not well educated in French politics but isn't a big reason for the current situation over there that Macron and his party outright refused to cooperate with the Left coalition despite them getting a plurality in the most recent elections? That was my probably incomplete understanding.

Kind of? It's a bit of column A a bit of the other 25 lettered columns. The parliament is hung like a r34 minotaur and essentially, whichever way the votes swing will not be enough to get everyone on board. Everyone hates Macron, and enough of the parliament is far-left or far-right that whichever way they try to swing, there's no chance of compromise really, as both refuse to cooperate - the moderate left want to basically slow down paying off the fucked national debt (which I kind of understand but is right now a one way ticket to begging the IMF for help), which Macron isn't in a position to force through because the conservatives won't vote for it. And the moderate right refuse to raise taxes which is kinda necessary if they want to actually pay off that debt. The far-left would rather side with the far-right in voting against literally anything because even if they probably won't win the next election, it's at least a chance to win and it gets the liberals out. And the far-right know they'll win so they can just straight up refuse.