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[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world -3 points 3 weeks ago

but it seems strange that he doesn't just appoint the candidate from the left.

From which part of the left? The New Popular Front is actually an amalgamation of broad left wing coalition of various parties. So Macron had to pick from the far-left communist leader Jean Luc Melenchon, or from the centre left Socialist party led by Olivier Faure.

The French legislative assembly works very differently compared to US Congress or the parliamentary system. There isn't really one, or two, or only five parties getting votes. The French system is much more pluralistic and it is more like a hodge podge of various parties forming a grand coalition that represents an ideology. Even the current French president Emmanuel Macron's so-called "party", Ensemble, is a coalition of centrist parties.

If you want to find out more about France's current deadlock, here is a good succinct video explaining it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Q5nCCF5ck

[-] Skydancer@pawb.social 32 points 3 weeks ago

Not a choice he had to make. The NFP parties agreed on a consensus candidate - Lucie Castets.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world -2 points 3 weeks ago

I didn't know that, thanks for letting me know. However, it seems Lucie herself had previously rejected forming a coalition with Macron's group according to the Wikipedia article.

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 weeks ago

She's literally in the thumbnail of this post. You didn't even have to read the article, just the caption on the headlining picture. But thanks for telling us what you read on Wikipedia instead of reading the article you're commenting on.

[-] jorp@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

This is why headline wording can be so important. People will just project their own biased understanding and skip the details.

Oh Hamas rejected the ceasefire deal again...

[-] jorp@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

That's fair it was all the way in the article you're commenting on

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