Tue Jun 21, 2022 – 2:56 pm EDT ANALYSIS
PARIS (LifeSiteNews) — Politically, France has just emerged from an earthquake. Nobody – least of all the polling institutes – had foreseen that Sunday’s national legislative election would leave President Emmanuel Macron in a state of near knock-out.
Macron’s party failed by a much larger margin than anticipated to obtain a majority in the newly elected National Assembly: for every government bill presented to the lower chamber, Macron’s alliance, which has a relative majority with 245 seats, will need to find between 40 and 50 votes from the extreme left or from the institutional “right-wing” to be adopted.
It is a major defeat for Macron, nicknamed “Jupiter.” Commentators noted that he has been “punished” for his arrogance. His failure to set up a convincing campaign, and the five years of pain and suffering inflicted on large sections of the French public, from the high energy prices that triggered the “Yellow Vest” movement and its violent repression by French law enforcement officers, the increasingly heavy taxation on real estate, and, of course, the disastrous and tyrannical handling of the COVID crisis all played a role.
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