55 sats \ 17 replies \ @carlosfandango 9 Jun \ parent \ on: Earthquake in France: Macron dissolves parliament after catastrophic result news
He didn’t have a strong majority so has been hampered for the last couple of years. As long as there wasn’t a dissolution within the last year and senior members of the State agree they can dissolve and call an election (he could have done it in 2023).
Fixed term elections aren’t that common; the European Parliament and US Congress and US Presidential being prominent examples. In this case a fixed term election in Europe seems to have forced an election in France…
So, they have to re-elect the entire parliament? If things are trending against him, why would that help?
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Senate has more seats than I expected
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Thank you for clarifying this.
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Yes. He has been called to do it every couple of months it seems. It’s a semi-bluff to the electorate which sometimes works: in the UK Boris Johnson called a snap election in 2019 and was given a large majority from a campaign for his European stance and an unpopular (socialist) opponent.
It’s ’this is what I stand for. This can’t go on. Back me or sack me’
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He's fleeing what's coming to the EU: an economical meltdown. Le Pen is against the Euro and illegal mass immigration and this movement is gaining momentum
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That's interesting. It reminds of when the Republicans allowed the Green New Deal come up for a vote. It was such bad legislation that most of its sponsors voted against it.
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We needed to hearings before voting!
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*have hearings…
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Hard not to agree…
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….smiling piranha slowly nibbling away at a disintergrating corpse…
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