FRENCH ELECTORAL SYSTEM THAT NO ONE FULLY UNDERSTANDS HANDS THE "FAR RIGHT" A TEMPORARY LANDSLIDE

The French electoral system has handed the National Rally (NR) Party a stunning electoral victory. The so-called "far right" party (brown on the map) got the biggest proportion of the vote in yesterday's legislative elections.

NR got 33.15% of the vote in first round voting and is now leading in over half of France's 577 electoral districts, A "far left" bloc is second with 28.14% and Macron's "extreme centrist" bloc is third with 21.27%.

This is a big advance for the NR, who only got 18.68% at the same stage in the previous election in 2022. Already the NR has secured 37 seats. Last time at this stage they had zero seats.

But the French electoral system is a weird, complex, anti-democratic contraption that involves lower scoring candidates dropping out in various districts and a second round of what is essentially state-mandated "tactical voting" against whichever party the French State deems "evil." In this case, that is the NR because "mass immigration gooooooood!!!!"

It is therefore quite possible that the NR's apparent landslide "victory" will evaporate into something much less convincing, following the second round on July 7th. We'll probably see a dysfunctional legislative assembly, and therefore an increase in the executive power of the French President.