On Sunday 19 June 2022, France held elections for a new parliament. The result is remarkable in two respects in particular. Firstly, only just over 40 per cent of French people went to the polls and cast a vote. This means that not even half of the people in France still have confidence in parliament and have realised that no bourgeois party meets their interests. Secondly, President Emmanuel Macron's party lost its absolute majority in parliament. His party "En Marche", together with the electoral alliance "Ensemble", received only 245 seats in the election, which corresponds to a good 38 percent.
The result means that Macron's party will have great difficulty in implementing his government plans, as he needs an opposition party to support him for a majority. This leads to more instability in the French political landscape. The conservative party even went so far as to speak of conditions like in the Weimar Republic.
The winners of the election are the "left" electoral alliance Nupes around the opportunist Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who failed in the presidential election a few months ago, with 31.6 per cent, and the arch-reactionary Marine Le Pen with her nationalist electoral alliance, which won 17.3 per cent. Macron's party, originally founded as a supposed alternative to the old parties, lost numerous votes both to the left and to the right. Macron's party can only benefit from the fact that the parties of Mélenchon and Le Pen both have a reputation for being radical and populist.
The deep political crisis in France manifests itself further and further. The masses have long since lost confidence and thrown overboard the moronic illusion in the bourgeois electoral farce. The last few years have clearly shown that France is ready for a different path. Whether the so-called Money West protests in 2019, which were a great uprising of the masses, or the great struggles and protests against the Corona measures in 2020 and 2021, the French masses want the path of struggle and not the path of the bourgeoisie's mendacious elections.
