ONCE UNTHINKABLE EVENT HAPPENS THAT FRENCH LEFT FORMS COALITION TO CHALLENGE MACRON IN PARLIAMENT
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 8 May 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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"We want to elect MPs in a majority of constituencies to stop Emmanuel Macron from pursuing his unjust and brutal policies and beat the far-right." Less than two weeks after France's neoliberal president, Emmanuel Macron, defeated the far-right's Marine Le Pen to win a second five-year term, the country's four major left parties have agreed in principle to form an electoral coalition that aims to deny Macron a parliamentary majority.
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| 0:46.0 | And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth, and justice, believers, and peace |
| 0:52.0 | freedom in the American way. |
| 0:54.3 | Once unthinkable, that's the headline over at CommonDreams.org. |
| 0:58.7 | Once unthinkable, the French left forms a coalition to challenge Macron in parliament. |
| 1:04.0 | Here's what's going on. |
| 1:05.3 | And most Americans are just like completely unfamiliar with French politics. |
| 1:09.4 | And they just had France just had an election. |
| 1:13.2 | And it was Emmanuel Macron in the final round, the playoff game here, |
| 1:20.5 | was Emmanuel Macron versus Marine Le Pen. |
| 1:25.0 | Marine Le Pen basically an open Nazi, slightly dialed back from that, but damn close. |
| 1:31.5 | And a pro-Putin, Nazi, by the way. |
| 1:34.4 | And Emmanuel Macron, a former banker who has reduced the corporate tax rate, |
| 1:44.4 | has cut taxes on rich people, has cut back programs, social welfare spending, |
| 1:49.5 | and is in the process of trying to lower the, or raise the retirement age in France |
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