I don't really get what's so surprising. The National Assembly has a 67% right wing majority, and Macron has always rejected collaborating with the left. "But the left won the election" is just cope.
large chunks of his party actually rebelled against him to collaborate with the left and deny the fascists a plurality. Sure, you can say the left doesn't have an outright majority, but under the rules of the game they were playing, the largest party gets to set up a government, and macron has decided "nah actually the president's preferred gov't gets to just keep ruling indefinitely if you don't have a 2/3rds majority to oust him"
It's kind of cope, but they did win, their voting bloc is the largest. The "right wing" bloc you mention doesn't (yet) exist, electorally. This result should force Macron to pick whether to work with the left or the right (and we know which way he leans in practice), but he's saying "neither" and continuing to rule without a democratic mandate, so it's right to call that bullshit out.
Its also a great demonstration of how liberals claim to give a shit about norms and tradition and peaceful transfer of power, but that's only when they are handing the reins off to the even further right wing, or refusing to take power in the first place. When there is a left wing threat those "principles" go out the window.
I don't really get what's so surprising. The National Assembly has a 67% right wing majority, and Macron has always rejected collaborating with the left. "But the left won the election" is just cope.
No just radlibs were already poiting towards france and saying we need muh popular front with the democrats and that "france was saved from fascism"
large chunks of his party actually rebelled against him to collaborate with the left and deny the fascists a plurality. Sure, you can say the left doesn't have an outright majority, but under the rules of the game they were playing, the largest party gets to set up a government, and macron has decided "nah actually the president's preferred gov't gets to just keep ruling indefinitely if you don't have a 2/3rds majority to oust him"
It's kind of cope, but they did win, their voting bloc is the largest. The "right wing" bloc you mention doesn't (yet) exist, electorally. This result should force Macron to pick whether to work with the left or the right (and we know which way he leans in practice), but he's saying "neither" and continuing to rule without a democratic mandate, so it's right to call that bullshit out.
Its also a great demonstration of how liberals claim to give a shit about norms and tradition and peaceful transfer of power, but that's only when they are handing the reins off to the even further right wing, or refusing to take power in the first place. When there is a left wing threat those "principles" go out the window.