Originally posted by P220 Smudge: I just saw that Macron dissolved the parliament and called for new elections.
Unreal.
Because a populist, more conservative wave is building all across Europe. These politicians fucked up bad allowing unlimited Third World illegals to just come pouring in.
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Originally posted by PASig: These politicians fucked up bad allowing unlimited Third World illegals to just come pouring in.
...and many of them will deflect or, not acknowledge their own misguided policies allowed such to happen.
You'd have thought after the truck rampage in Nice, Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks or, the Bataclan theater attack would've snapped people into re-aligning their attitudes on unlimited immigration and the non-assimilation problems that are much larger than acknowledged. Well, elections have consequences...let the deflecting, blame-game and gaslighting begin.
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The French heritage in my DNA says it's time to tell her to stop your sobbing and break out the good cognac! It's a day akin to what we experienced in Nov. 2016.
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Not only France--Belgium, which held regular elections concurrently with the EU Parliament election, has dissolved their government--again. The AfD "Far-right" party in Germany has made solid gains in the EU elections; while the Greens (Watermelons) in the GFR and elsewhere have seen their share of the vote shrink drastically. Geert Wilders' "anti-immigration" party in the Netherlands as made big gains. If the EU Parliament results hold for the national elections, we're going to see a whole lot of little snowflakes sobbing by their refrigerators and consuming a massive amount of gelato. Meloni (Mmmmmm) in Italy continues to be hot (electorally of course) with her party winning big in the EU elections. Meanwhile, Milei in Argentina is showing the world how it's done--another 50,000 government workers canned. Ladies and Gentlemen, we are on the verge of an electoral revolution in Europe the likes of which have not been seen in the 20th or 21st century, barring the astonishing Brexit results.
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The pendulum is moving back in our direction. People everywhere are starting to wake up and see the damage that has been done. But the people doing the damage won’t be held accountable in any meaningful way. But it’s better than nothing.
For some perspective on how the EU election turned out The far-right from a European perspective amounts to moderate to right-leaning here in the US. Europe has gone a long time browbeating and attempting to ostracize anybody with any sense of national pride, pointing-out the obvious to those recently arrived who are resistant if not hostile to assimilating and adopting Green-policies that simultaneously drives their economy & industry off a cliff.
Europe's conservatives are ecstatic. The European People's Party (EPP) scored a clear victory in Sunday's European Parliament election, tightening its grip on the chamber even as far-right groups made major gains across the bloc.
The center-right force is on track to have around 184 lawmakers in Parliament, a quarter of the 720 in the hemicycle, according to provisional data. It is the only centrist party to have grown in this election: The center-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D) remained stable, while the liberal Renew Europe group was decimated.
From its position of power, the EPP is best placed to set EU policy, tilting the agenda to the right. “We are the party of industry, we are the party of rural areas, we are the farmers’ party of Europe,” Manfred Weber, the leader of the EPP Group in the Parliament, recently told POLITICO. While the EPP could once again join a grand coalition with the socialists and liberals, it could also negotiate a working relationship on some issues with parties further to the right — if it can do so without alienating its centrist allies.
Far right wins big
As polls predicted, far-right forces made major gains across the bloc. In France, the National Rally raked in nearly a third of the votes, consolidating itself as the leading ultra nationalist group in the next Parliament. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy similarly soared, with more than a quarter of voters backing the group. The two groups in the European Parliament on the furthest right of the spectrum, the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and the Identity and Democracy (ID) group, will control 131 seats in the chamber. That's not counting the Alternative for Germany's 15 lawmakers, the 10 representatives of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party, the six belonging to Poland's Confederation party, or the three members of Bulgaria's pro-Kremlin Revival party. Meloni's advance in Italy undercut the League; once the leading party within the Identity and Democracy group, it lost two-thirds of its seats on Sunday. In Spain, the Vox party was similarly undermined by The Party is Over, a new party led by far-right internet personality Alvise Pérez. That new group secured three seats that could have gone to Vox, which doubled its representation and will have six lawmakers in Brussels during the next term.
If the far right were to form a single group it would be the second largest force in Parliament, behind the traditionally dominant European People’s Party. The rivalries and disagreements within its ranks make that scenario unlikely, but its sheer size will nonetheless put rightward pressure on EU policy.
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