Manuel Bompard, a member of the far-left party France Indefatigable, (left, Mathilde Pano) speaks to reporters outside the party’s headquarters in Paris, Monday, July 8, 2024. (Photo: AP)
Key highlights
- FP’s victory in the French elections has sparked allegations of fraud from Trump supporters.
- Political turmoil continues in France as US supporters of Trump denounce the French election results.
- Some predict dire consequences for France, reflecting a feeling of the country being “finished.”
Supporters of Donald Trump are in a frenzy after France’s newly formed broad-leaning left-wing coalition, the National Popular Front (NFP), won the most seats in parliament in the country’s elections. we He denounced this as fraud and said it was similar to the Democratic victory in the US in 2020.
Formed on June 10th, shortly after Marine La Penne’s far-right Rally National (NR) won the most seats in the EU elections, the party won the most seats in the National Assembly, with 182. While this is well short of the 289 seats required for a majority in France’s single-member constituency system and not enough to form a government, the shock victory signals a key moment in French politics, in that French voters have once again kept the far right out of power. Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble coalition won 163 seats, while the NR and its allies won 143.
As France’s parliament was divided and political turmoil continued, Trump’s US supporters distrusted the election results, calling them false, with some saying France was “finished” while others warned of catastrophic consequences.
One user wrote: “Rigged elections would certainly have dire consequences 🙄 The leader of the extremist Antifa group, who is on France’s national security watch list, has been elected to the National Assembly as a member of the left-wing New Popular Front coalition.”
“France is done. Britain is done. Ireland is nearing the end. And Germany?? If we don’t wake up we’re next!” said another.
“Macron conspired with the NFP to remove 200 candidates from the ballot so that the RN would win the third-most seats despite receiving the highest percentage of the vote. This may have been legal, but it was not a ‘legitimate’ vote that produced this result,” David Sachs, a Trump supporter and vice chairman of Craft Ventures, wrote on X.
“I care more about America than a country like France, which knows how to raise the white flag quicker than put up a fight,” Ryan Fournier, one of the founders of Students for Trump, wrote on X.
After Marine La Penne’s NR party won 30 seats in the European elections with 31.37% of the vote, it looked like her party might well take power in Parliament. Following the victory of NR candidate Jordan Bardella, President Emmanuel Marcon dissolved the French Parliament and called for early general elections in the country.
