The new cabinet pulls in allies from the centre and right, despite left-wing parties winning France's election.

French President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled his new government almost three months after a snap general election delivered a hung parliament.

The long-awaited new line up, led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier, marks a decisive shift to the right, even though a left-wing alliance won most parliamentary seats.

Despite the partnership between Macron’s centrist party and those on the right, parliament remains fractured and will rely on the support of other parties to pass legislation.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    541·
    2 months ago

    There are no friends in politics, but even so, Macron remains an especially rancid pig fucker.

  • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    479·
    2 months ago

    even though a left-wing alliance won most parliamentary seats.

    And yet, people will continue insisting that we can vote our way out of the rapid decline in to fascism… 🙄

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    Wow he is just a complete piece of shit. He went from pulling out all the stops to block FN (which I genuinely respected at the time) to just straight-arming anyone to the left of his party and crawling back to FN with his hat in his hands.

    I do hope the French people decide to engage in their favorite passtime over this bullshit.

      • mightyfoolish@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        It’s extremely biased. It says that AlJazeera is biased because its “OPINION” pieces use loaded words against Israel. However, New York Times has the same bias but against Palestine (source) in their “NEWS” pieces and gets to be highly credible.

        Yes, media sources tend to be biased against something but the media bias fact checker is extremely biased. It is pointless.

        • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          I strongly suspect MBF is an actual Intelligence operation of the US Government.

          It makes all sense that to control the information that people access in this day and age of people being able to read news from just about anywhere using the Internet and when there is widespread awareness of Fake News and similar opinion making mechanisms, for a state to set up and fund an intelligence op disguised as a “well intentioned group” to act as an “independent” (always without the transparency, clear processes and supervision to guarantee said independence) gatekeeper to all that information and tell people which information sources can be trusted and which cannot.

          With such a scheme you can even get infiltrated agents in popular social media (such as moderators in high traffic places where anybody can be a moderator) to leverage that “well intentioned group’s” image of “independence” to get both soft (advice bot) and hard information control mechanics in place (post rejection) determined solely by that single gatekeeper’s decisions.

          It doesn’t even take a conspiracy, just a handful of individuals and some careful talk and image management to sway well intentioned people who aren’t exactly trained in data analysis or counter-propaganda to “use these nice and honest people to protect our readers from fake news” - people seriously understimate just how much influence a person who is paid to spend all day gaining influence in open groups, who has done it long enough to be experienced at it, who has zero ethics or honesty and who has access to the level of resources a nation state can provide, can gain and then leverage.

          • GelatinGeorge@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            That makes grim sense, actually. I hadn’t bothered to check the bots sources in the slightest, so thank you both for taking the time to reply.