Скачать с ютуб MCC Votes & Seats: French Snap Legislative Election – The Classical Cordon Sanitaire in Operation в хорошем качестве

MCC Votes & Seats: French Snap Legislative Election – The Classical Cordon Sanitaire in Operation

On the eve of the European Parliament election of 9 June 2024, French president Emmanuel Macron announced the dissolution of the National Assembly and appointed 30 June and 7 July as the days of a snap legislative election. In the first round of the election, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally managed to repeat – and even slightly improved – its great result delivered in the recent EP election, and the key question was whether they could ensure an absolute majority in the Assembly. Between the two rounds, however, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s left-wing New Popular Front and Macron’s centrist-liberal Ensemble coalition called for coordinated action to prevent Le Pen’s absolute majority. The cordon sanitaire worked well also this time, as the National Rally came in only third in terms of the seats obtained after the left-wing and the centrist blocks, and the result was a hung parliament. What motivated Macron in calling for a snap election? What was the campaign like? What was the stake of the election for the parties and the electorate? What happened between the two rounds? Who will form the new government? What are the prospects for Le Pen’s party? In the new episode of the Votes & Seats podcast series of the Center for Political Science (MCC), Szabolcs Janik discussed these and similar questions with Alexandre Pesey, founder and executive director of the Institut de Formation Politique, a conservative training Institute in Paris.