François Hollande, former head of the Socialist Party, is the controversial figure who started the Pension reform because French populace needs to live austere in difficult time.

This party is one of the main members of this left coalition

A person facing no consequences for not accepting a deal keeps refusing the deal.

More news at 6

a republic created by an army general behaves like an authoritarian democracy.

More news at 11

That is every western socdem parties tho

~~Suella Braverman says~~' idiotic ~~strategy led~~ Conservatives to worst-ever election defeat

This is an article explaining the situation of the Fr*nch election:

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2024/06/29/france-macrons-gamble/ keep in mind this is before the 2nd round, but it does give a pretty good picture on how the system works and what are the issues.

I think the geopolitical matters is not the main thing i like about Melenchon. Yes, he is good at it, but over years France is fluid in their foreign policy, Macron talked big on Chinese Human right issues last term but when money talk comes, the dude still goes to Beijing to secure more contracts. Mélenchon's last election promised electoral reform and the dissolution of the 5e republic, which is needed and necessary, but I have yet seen a party that will dissolve the system that allows them to come to power in the first place.

not much, the left is not in the majority. This basically means that the president and the PM (nominated by the president according who controls the parliament) the house will probably not agree on anything until the next election. The left coalition can probably form an alliance with Macron's coalition to pass certain legislation which will betray their commitment. Or the President can stall the parliament until the next election and the coalition breaks and eventually loses (IIRC this is what happened last election when France insoumie and the Socialist party "splitted" the vote)

Le programme concernant l'international fait l'objet de forts compromis172,173, en particulier le conflit israélo-palestinien174,175 :

Agir pour la libération des otages détenus depuis les massacres terroristes du Hamas, dont est rejeté le projet théocratique

you know who compromised more.

The left coalition is not the majority of the lower house. The president still has executive power.

So until the president’s term is over, it’s basically a useless system. The 5th republic is set up by a military general and there is a reason why it functions like that

Tbh this is the way the ADL uses to boost their “this year we have an increase of 10000% antisemitism in the country” report.

Antisemitism is real but the ADL and their support of israel while cry bullying people will just train the population to ignore antisemitism when actual occurrence happens.

According to one of the interviewees in the latest season of Blowback Malalai Joya, the US still pay some members of the Taliban salary, just in case they don’t completely flip their allegiance to China or other geopolitical rivals

But i don’t think it would figure on the chart