Are we seeing the end of the line for French President Emmanuel Macron? Are the nationalist populists poised to take over the entire nation? According to a number of pundits, that is precisely what’s happening! Impeachment articles have just been filed against Macron, and Marine Le Pen is waiting in the wings.
– France’s parliament approved articles of impeachment against Macron, introduced by a party he helped gain power through coalition maneuvering.
– No party holds a majority in the French Assembly, requiring coalition building, which is now led by Macron’s appointed Prime Minister, Michel Barnier.
– Le Pen may use the next year to increase her political influence and withdraw support from Barnier if it benefits her agenda, signaling a potential nationalist populist shift in France.
France’s parliament has just voted to approve articles of impeachment against Macron. The motion to impeach was ironically introduced by the very political party that Macron just weeks ago helped achieve power. In both the last week of June and the first week of July, France held their two rounds of national elections. Because the elections were two rounds, it looked like the “far-right” was going to win the elections in a blowout.
They won the most seats in the first round of elections and were poised to win a majority in the Assembly in the second round. But the behind-the-scenes shenanigans started to play out. Macron convinced more than 200 people who belong to the Renaissance Party to drop out of the second round and turn around and endorse all the far-left candidates who were running so that they could team up and beat the so-called far-right candidate.
This worked- Macron successfully thwarted the right from coming to power, and he did it by ironically putting the far left into power. Now no party has an outright majority in the French Assembly, so there has to be coalition building, and that’s the job of the prime minister. What this far left party wanted Macron to do was appoint one of their own as prime minister. The problem is that if Macron appointed a far-left prime minister, that would mean the repeal of Macron’s entire economic program.
Macron appointed a prime minister named Michel Barnier who was acceptable to and actually supported by the “far-right” National Rally Party. We are now seeing an impeachment resolution on the horizon. Most commentators of French politics think the impeachment will have little chance of passing. Instead, it is more of a political gesture that expresses not merely the volatility in French politics, but most particularly the reconfiguration of French politics like what we are seeing here in the States.
With this prime minister appointment, Macron may be signaling that while he won the election battle over the summer, he clearly has lost the war over France. This is because this new prime minister Barnier is a total immigration hawk. He wants to close the borders and conduct mass deportations every bit as much as anyone on the far right. What both the far-left and even members of Macron’s own cabinet are concerned about is that Macron has just, however inadvertently, made Marine le Pen the de facto prime minister.
Macron did everything he could to make sure that Le Pen and National Rally don’t take over parliament, only to turn around and appoint a prime minister whose policies are virtually identical with the party Macron did everything he could do to defeat. What very astute political observers are noting is that Marine Le Pen herself recognizes that with Barnier as prime minister, nationalist populist policies end up becoming the law of the land. This will pave the way for her to win the presidency in 2027.
What implementing “far-right” policy at the national level does is it fosters a process that Marine Le Pen calls de-diabolization. This is a strategy that nationalist populist politicians have been implementing all over Europe. De-diabolization involves an intentional normalization process taken by nationalist populist parties in Europe that seeks to bring the party out of the political periphery and into the mainstream.
One of the reasons why the legacy media and globalist politicians use the term ‘far-right’ is to try to keep these nationalist populist parties seen as extreme and radical. What nationalist populist leaders have been doing is employing a number of tactics and strategies to garner the trust and confidence of the people. Meloni is the most popular prime minister in Europe.
There’s one more hurdle here, particularly for Le Pen. If she aligns herself with Macron by way of his prime minister appointment, now she risks being identified with the establishment, because that’s precisely what the far-left is now saying. The far left is now claiming that the ‘far-right’ have no problem selling out and aligning with the establishment if they are given power.
SLe Pen is already openly saying that while she welcomes this prime minister appointment, she doubts he’ll be around for more than a year, because that’s when she would start making some moves to increase her political clout in Parliament and capitalize on a year of de-diabolization. She has that power because no party won an outright majority. Le Pen can withdraw her support from the prime minister and dissolve the government, so it will be very interesting to see whether this REALLY is Marine Le Pen’s moment. It appears that things are aligning in such a way for France’s national right to finally take power, which will be a major step in the ongoing reconfiguration of Europe around the rising dominance of the nationalist populist right!
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