In the image above, you see a rather perplexed looking Francois Bayrou (MoDem), Jean-Yves Le Drian (Socialist) and Marielle de Sarnez (MoDem), all leaving the Elysee Palace this morning. Both Bayrou and de Sarnez have […]
‘The French electorate has been more extreme than any other. It managed to eradicate virtually the entire political establishment in a short sequence of elections’. Wolfgang Munchau, The Financial Times, Monday 19th June 2017 Vox […]
Macron announced his new Prime Minister just two hours before leaving for Berlin today. The outgoing Socialist Prime Minister under Hollande, Bernard Cazeneuve, 53, is from Normandy. So is the new one: Edouard Philippe, 46. […]
‘To those who have voted for me to bar the FN, I know its not a blank cheque… to those who voted for Ms Le Pen, they have expressed anger and disarray. I will do […]
Further to my article earlier today on the purpose of the legislative elections, (http://www.makemeaware.com/french-elections-not-president-elected/), here is a little more information on how one arrives at the figure of 577 seats in the National Assembly. What […]
Earlier in the week, Gideon Rachman in the FT said that politics is ‘no longer between left and right – but between nationalist and internationalist’. The world is going to be watching France over the […]
