It’s an unprecedented situation in the history of the 5th French Republic: the loser in the election effectively rejects yielding power to the winner.

He explains it by the fact that his “responsibility is to ensure that the country be neither blocked nor weakened”, arguing that were he to nominate a NPF government they’d soon be censored by parliament and destituded.

That may be the case but still this awfully inconvenient fact remains: Macron’s party got way less votes and MPs than the NPF, yet it is Macron’s party that’s still running the French government, and it is Macron himself making choices on who can or cannot assume power based on what he thinks would “weaken France” or not. It’s insane when you think about it.

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1828169812738220402

Quite an incredible move in French politics today that might reveal that we’re in fact witnessing nothing less than a coup by Macron.

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1827474244856365440  THREAD