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by OJFord
1681 days ago
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Does France not have snap elections or delays for some reason or another - or if there are, it always affects the presidential election too? Or, lower probability sure, what about by-elections? Say you have a majority of one, someone resigns/dies/does something awful, vote goes the other way in the by-election? |
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This rarely happens if the parliament is elected right after the president is. Electing members of the parliament becomes: "do I want the president to be able to rule the country, or do I want nothing to happen in the next 5 years?".
The clearest example of that was in 2017, when Macron was elected, and people voted in over 300 people that had never been elected before, often were completely unknown to the public, the only thing they did was declaring : "I will vote for whatever the president asks me to vote for" (not an actual quote, but in order to get support from Macron they had to sign a paper saying they would vote "yes" for every proposition emanating from their group, and "no" to every proposition from the opposition)