Emmanuel Macron dissolves French parliament and calls snap elections

Oh I am going to need evidence that all those churches were destroyed. Otherwise I am going to assume you are posting random nonsense from a very nonsense looking account.

Edit: turns out the map is a lie and isn't even particularly recent. Your post is just nonsense. If there is a serious issue it can be detailed without counting "man interrupts mass" as a destroyed church. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/churches-destroyed-in-france/

Probably not destroyed but a serious problem of attacks even 3 years ago, now it is worse.

If people make stuff up to claim something is a serious problem then they will have no credibility.

Stuff like the map is an obvious red flag. That is a crazy number for actually destroyed churches and would have made headlines. That should send red flags about the information that it should be verified.

Maybe check who you are trusting for your information even if they agree with your preconceptions.

He had no credibility left (at least to anyone who has read output for the last few years).

To give just one tiny example, which fits with your comment on antisemitism…he's apparently a Le Pen supporter, very concerned about muslim immigration to Europe and rising hatred towards Jews in France on here; but…posts vile anti semitic conspiracy theories and praises attacks of + boosts propaganda of Islamic fundamentalist terrorists (Houthis) over there (different threads!).🤡

So you linked to a tweet that amounted to a lie. Then an article that explicitly said there was numerous reasons for the decline. Instead you tried to lob it all on Muslims which in reality is not the case. The article you linked to actually points to the state neglecting the buildings and the issue of them falling apart was warned as far back as the seventies. You've googled it but still struggled to back up the rather xenophobic agenda that you're pushing.

As I understand it, it was undergoing renovation, just as Notre Dame in Paris had been. In that case it was a problem of electrical equipment and lighting requiring multiple electrical sources to be brought into an old structure made of bone-dry wood. No Muslims needed for a fire to catch hold.

I'd bet a large amount of money that this is the same.

Plenty of accounts on twitter and the likes of breitbart that cater to those who aren't firing on all cylinders between the ears were claiming it was Muslims at the time and since.

So Macron keeps the existing PM if noone can propose another who can garner enough support to replace him ?

Is this still the French election thread?

Has anyone been following since?

It is very byzantine.I wonder how long Macron can hold off nominating a Prime Minister?

Do the potential Prime Ministers secretly prefer not to be nominated because they know they will not be accepted even if Macron nominates them?

That twitter poster seems fairly partisan ,calling Macron's (in) action a "coup d'état" whereas ,perhaps he is merely twisting in the wind and trying desperately to get the best deal for his own party in the short or medium term.

The comments in that twitter page are pretty interesting

Everyone has a different point of view and maybe that reflects the french public as a whole-no overall consensus eccept for the need to keep LePen's party out of power.

In they first place, they haven't said they'd try to vote down everything an LFI government did; just that they'd vote against it in a vote of confidence. That's a pretty standard position for parties that are not in the governing coalition themselves in most democracies.

Secondly, routinely voting against the government in all votes is the standard position adopted by the official opposition in any parliamentary democracy. It's not a way-out-there childish stance at all.

The issue here is not that the centre, centre-right and right blocs say they will vote against an LFI-led government. Why wouldn't they vote against a government that they aren't in and don't support? The issue is that the LFI and its allies in the NFP bloc don't have a majority of seats, or anything like a majority. Simply being larger than any of the other blocs in parliament doesn't mean a God-given right to form a government. Given the parliamentary arithmatic, any government has to be a coalition that includes parties from at least two blocs.

I think what Macron hopes — or hoped, at any rate — was to cause the NFP bloc to splinter. By holding out against a government dominated by the LFI, they would force other parties in the bloc to peel off and form an alliance with centrist parties, resulting in a centre-left government opposed by LFI from the left and by a variety of centre-right and right parties from the right. The current deadlock arises because the NFP bloc has refused to oblige by splintering. Now, they will seek to reverse the strategy, trying to get parties to peel off from the other blocs to form a centre-left government that includes (as its largest party, most likely) LFI.

He has to be voted in by the Assemblee,I assume.(get the feeling I was wrong there)

I wonder does Macron have the votes counted or is it going to be a squeeze?

Is that a man from his own party? (oh ,it is M. Brexit .We all know him quite well)