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Isn't this basically a coup?
As always capitalists won't let real leftists come into power within their capitalist system, even if that means giving way to fascism. Revolution is the only way; winning an election is a bonus ad campaign.
The left didn't get a majority, so it's just parliamentary politics. It's a bit unusual for France where the biggest party tends to form a government, but that's a political norm we would have been happy to see broken had the Rassemblement national done as well as everyone expected it to.
What is more problematic is that the Cabinet is not allowed to vote in parliamentary matters, which Macron needed in order to marginalize the left. So he fired his Cabinet, so that they formally returned to parliament and could vote. The problem is, of course, that they don't have any replacements, and their roles need to be filled. So now they're voting in parlament while continuing their duties, giving the sleezebag Gabriel Attal the title "Outgoing Prime Minister Gabriel Attal", but not changing anything of substance.
It's not constitutional, but the courts let it slide, because they're as terrified of the French left as Hindenburg was of the Social Democrats.
It isn't norm, it happened two times during the 5th republic and both times government was formed with little problem. This now is a coup in progress.
If voting actually changed anything, they wouldn't let us do it.
This. If you actually want positive change, go out and join a socialist org to take direct action. In capitalist states — specially imperial core ones — elections are just an ad campaign that won't bring any positive change for workers on its own.
Elections will, however, gradually shift to the far-right as long as liberals/capitalists are in power (see: overton window).
LFI isn't hard left, nor far-left.
It's "normal" left. I say "" because in the past where you'd have more normal parties, they'd just be left of the mean, but nowadays are only normal because everyone else has turned insane.
So, let me rewrite it: