my understanding is that the left block is actually made up of several parties that will go their own way after the election, not sure how much of it is PS and how much Melenchon
This is the only exit poll I've seen that breaks it down by party. It looks like there's a majority that starts at the PCF and ends at Horizons for the taking, excluding LFI, the far-right, *and* the mainstream right.
It is, and I wouldn't be so quick to rule it out. The PCF is a basically responsible, mainstream party of government. Macronistes and even Républicains were very happy to call on voters to vote PCF against the RN. They're *not* LFI.
Spoke to a french friend of mine who thinks this won’t happen, Macron will appoint a liberal PM who won’t have confidence of parliament, and will govern with severely reduced power unless they get votes on specific things or change their mind and form a coalition
I mean, the good way that this could turn out is that Macron (who clearly hoped things would work out this way) understands this as a mandate to tack left, and spends his later years building a durable common-enemy coalition against the right wing.
(Some people REALLY want to be a statesman)
