French voters returned to the polls on Sunday, July 7, to elect a new Assemblée Nationale and determine who will be in a position to govern France. See how many seats each party won and the district-by-district map.
As an American, maybe you know, but I should explain just in case: This is called a minority government, and it’s standard in many democracies around the world. Multiple parties will have to work together, and form a majority that can build a government. Or fail, triggering another election.
In this case, NFP will be looking around for people - independents and parties that are a part of Macron’s coalition - who would support them in exchange for goodies, like specific policies or being put in cabinet.
Yeah, and more than once I’ve had someone think “minority government” must just refer to a dictatorship. To be completely fair it is unintuitive that a minority government always holds a majority. So, I just cleared it up right off the bat.
Two party does indeed suck. We have a somewhat less aggressive version in Canada. IMO the whole world should move towards the Norwegian system, with simple proportional rep and fixed terms to stave off snap elections.
I like the French system. Each constituency is represented by one person who got a majority. In the UK you also get your own representative, but they could win with 20% of the vote if everyone else has less (First Past The Post)…so in the french system you have two rounds to make sure that a majority of people don’t end up represented by someone they despise.
Proportional representation usually does not give you a representative, you have very little idea who your vote is electing after the first and second candidates…which is annoying when you look down the list and see these interloper nobodies who end up being someone’s cousin that nobody’s ever heard of and has never been seen in public.
As an American, maybe you know, but I should explain just in case: This is called a minority government, and it’s standard in many democracies around the world. Multiple parties will have to work together, and form a majority that can build a government. Or fail, triggering another election.
In this case, NFP will be looking around for people - independents and parties that are a part of Macron’s coalition - who would support them in exchange for goodies, like specific policies or being put in cabinet.
The concept of different parties working together confuses the modern American
Yeah, and more than once I’ve had someone think “minority government” must just refer to a dictatorship. To be completely fair it is unintuitive that a minority government always holds a majority. So, I just cleared it up right off the bat.
Two party does indeed suck. We have a somewhat less aggressive version in Canada. IMO the whole world should move towards the Norwegian system, with simple proportional rep and fixed terms to stave off snap elections.
I like the French system. Each constituency is represented by one person who got a majority. In the UK you also get your own representative, but they could win with 20% of the vote if everyone else has less (First Past The Post)…so in the french system you have two rounds to make sure that a majority of people don’t end up represented by someone they despise.
Proportional representation usually does not give you a representative, you have very little idea who your vote is electing after the first and second candidates…which is annoying when you look down the list and see these interloper nobodies who end up being someone’s cousin that nobody’s ever heard of and has never been seen in public.