There’s some interesting charts and facts & figures…
I’m learning more and more about French Politics this year… and it will be interesting to see who is named as President of Finance Commissions… (or whateve you call it)… I’d not appreciated that it had to be someone in Opposition…
If l was a betting man l think l would have an each-way bet that Edouard Philippe will be heading back to Matignon and Jean François Copé appointed a Minister in Macron’s Government? This is a nicely balanced piece in the Guardian this morning
French PM under pressure after Macron’s alliance loses absolute majority | France | The Guardian
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The outcome of Sunday’s election is going to make the UK look almost politically stable and bodes a turbulent period here.
It appears that the NUPES are already squabbling so probably won’t be the official opposition.
The changed dynamic is that the RN being the largest single party will now have major influnce on what happens in the Assemblée Nationale but will also be open to scrutiny, will be interesting to see if M le P tacks marginally to the center in a bid to convince the center right that they, the RN, can be respectable .
Maybe Macron watching and his machinations will now oust Boris bitching for us politicos on SF!
Quite like that. My bet is on Macron dissolving parliament which he can do 12 months after the last elections citing France is becoming ungovernable so there would be another round of elections to try and get a majority government.
Coalitions and making compromises are what most of our neighbours do all the time, I think we just need to get over ourselves.
The current UK government make the RN look like bleeding heart lefties and in any case the two systems are very different in how they work.
In any case this is as nothing compared to the 4th Republic.
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…coalitions are very much the tradition of Europe, its only the Uk that seems to have a fear of them believing them to be a sign of weak government. Although Cameron’s from 2010 was one of the more centralist administrations since 1945.
And whilst the current uk gov’ contains members who are undoubtedly well right of center in no way are they as extreme as many in the RN here.
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I present as evidence Ms Pritti Patel m’lud…
Case closed 
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Macron has spoken to all ‘leaders’ to suss them out. Interestingly, from my thinking, is that Nupes aren’t going to be a block but independents (PS, communists and ecologists) I wonder how that goes down in Mélenchon’s playbook? He does himself no favours sounding off (as ever) about ‘that women’… he really is a dinosaur in more ways than one
Not good i agree but at least she and her boss don’t have a policy of crearting a “second class” category of residency. Any person living here and not having been born “French” would be in that category which would include not only WA CdeS holders but all those who had “acquired” French citizenship. People in that category would be last in the queue for many things in the area of health, social and employment.
Intresting that his thread has attracted little comment, but if it had been about Johnson it would be in three figures, yet these results will affect all SF members far more than domestic British politics. Re-enforces another post about the pre-occupation on SF with British politics rather than French .,.which will affect us all far more, particularly if Le Pen able to gain real inflence and respectability, won’t bode good for 2027.
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A lot of the Brits I know here live in ‘UK centred bubbles’ and take no interest in French politics and I think the lack of comments on this thread mirrors that, it is disappointing but is not going to change any time soon.
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The Prime Minister (Élisabeth Borne) is to stay in place… (she had offered her resignation… )
It will be interesting to see how today works out…
I’m assuming “we” in this context is France?
I sensed the reluctance and uncertainty (over deals etc) from some French folk when I was watching the news. That surprised me because, as you say, it’s common place elsewhere. Indeed necessary to enable effective government.
Oh sorry yes, I am a French person 
not naturalised or anything just ordinary born French. (But I’m also an ordinary born British person). And I live here in France.
Yes, that’s why I said we need to get over ourselves.
Good to see they are getting to work… or gone back to school… it’s all a learning curve.
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Agree with that to a certain extent, but a lot of people on SF do seem quite involved in their local community and make a real effort to escape from an expat bubble.
However their pre-occupation with Brit’ politics often surprises me, paricularly from those who have liitle positive to say about the land of their birth which they rarely visit or even wish to visit,
I’m becomimg increasingly engaged in French and European politics and decisions as they have more impact on our life now.
Perso, I get it, the expat bubble. I’m not critical. Isolation can cause mental problems and it is important for us all to socialise and feel comfortable doing so. People like to talk, share stories, swap opinions etc. If your level of French enables you do do this to your own satisfaction then that’s brilliant. So, yes, I get it and don’t have a problem.
The only thing I would say (to anyone about anything) is that all choices have an outcome, have consequences. A decision (to live in an expat bubble for instance) will have repercussions further down the line - just like living under the radar v. getting a CdS. If you can handle those outcomes/consequences then cool.
We do have quite an active expat community around here. I don’t take part but that’s because I’m not an overly social person 
Further, whilst I’m born British I didn’t grow up there so I don’t really click with Brits, I don’t have the same reference points etc. But some of those that do take part are also active in a French community - it’s not either/or.
I found out the other day that our village is actually quite private and insular, and not at all gossipers over the fence. One of the locals died recently. We heard the ambulance and helicopter. Next morning when out walking the dog, I saw a fellow villager at his gate (he works for the commune too) and I asked what had happened. He said he wasn’t sure. He went on to tell me that whilst everyone in the village knew each other, and said hello etc, they didn’t really talk, they respected each others privacy. That surprised me. I thought it was just me that didn’t talk!
We had quite a long chat actually, about this and that. He was obviously really pleased we’d talked and that made me feel good too. It’d only taken 14 years!
Just goes to show… we’re all different… and so are villages/communes etc… 14 years before having a good chat would be nigh impossible here…
Our neighbour took his Brit neighbours (us) inhand and introduced us to the entire village and anyone else on the planet it seemed…
It was a “do” at the SdFête shortly after we arrived… no chance of remembering names but impossible to forget the warmth of the welcome extended to us…
The aftermath was that folk now “knew us” … they would smile, wave… and gently pass the time of day… gradually the chit-chat increased and the friendships began in earnest.
Marvellous.
mind you, we were the only Brits, so perhaps had some novelty appeal