AMA: if you have questions about what’s at stake in this first round, or what’s going on here, let me know and I’ll do my best to answer in next 30 minutes!
Voting has started in the French elections: expats voting for the 11 “abroad districts”, and residents of regions like Martinique or Guadeloupe away from mainland France, are voting today. Everyone else votes tomorrow. Results starting at 2pm ET.
I believe you said before, the French President is very powerful if his/her party controls The National Assembly. If the far-right take over, do they have any power if Macron is still president?
So the French president is not at all powerful if they don’t have the Assembly, no veto power for instance. The “government” belongs to the majority of the Assembly. So if the far-right wins in 8 days, they’ll be some skirmishes with Macron, but no clear or major institutional obstacle to their rule
