Lawfare Daily: The Fallout from the French Elections

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🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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French politics has had quite a summer. In early June, the French far-right made substantial gains in the European Union Parliament. The same day the results came down, French President Emmanuel Macron called snap elections, saying that the rise of nationalists and demagogues was a danger to France and Europe. It was a shocking and risky move. In the first round of elections, the far-right came in first, but after the second round, they were in third. Much of the media moved on after reporting on this story as a triumph over anti-democratic forces. But that narrative misses some important realities about French politics and what it will mean for France, for Europe, for NATO, and for France's standing on the world stage. Executive Editor Natalie Orpett sat down with Tara Varma, a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a close observer of French politics, to talk through it all.

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1:27.0	It's the Lawfair Podcast. I'm Natalie Orpet, Executive Editor of Lawfair, with Tara Varma, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution.
1:37.0	Are we looking at the government whose aim is to last until the next presidential election in the next three years or are we looking at
1:44.4	a government that would be so weak that they might just fall in a year's time and so
1:48.3	what kind of policy propositions and bills can you pass when you're so weak when you know that
1:54.1	there might be votes of no confidence that will come up and so that there's also a
1:58.3	big question there. Today we're talking about the political drama of the French elections, which took place about five weeks ago.
2:06.0	Started with President Macron's surprise decision to call a snap election and ended with an unprecedented divide in the Asondre National.
2:14.6	France is currently operating with no governing coalition and no Prime Minister.
2:19.5	As we wait for negotiations that are supposed to happen next week, we thought it was a good time to sort out what happened and what's next.
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