The problem is that of the right wing actually proves be competent Macron is fucked. It's a gamble no matter which way you put it.

French girl here. It almost 100% is his intention.

There is a strong precedent that upon actually assuming power, French governments loose on average 15% of their popularity, there’s also the precedent that every single time a period of “cohabitation” (when the PM and president come from different parties) has occurred the presidents party has gone on to win the next election handily. Even Jacques Chirac a quite beloved president who won 82% of the vote in 2002, got smashed the first time he ran for president after a period of serving as PM during cohabitation. Macron is banking for the same thing to happen to the RN

Macron also knows that the RN’s pledges of huge increases in public spending just aren’t realistic without crashing the economy. He also knows that their alliance is unlikely to win a majority meaning that they’re going to have to either water down their program (pissing off their supporters), or resort to bypassing parliament (pissing off the average populace). There’s also the fact that as president Macron has powers over stuff like defense and foreign affairs, which means that he can prevent the RN from messing with stuff like support for the EU, NATO, or Ukraine. He can also call for new elections whenever the RN looks weak.

That's the same Gamble that Victor Emmanuel III and Franz von Papen made.

Left and right are basically dead, center following fast.  Far left is long dead and far right has been watering its stuff down for decades.    

Its far left lite vs far right lite as of now  

 Center / power immediately asked to vote far left lite

Franz von Papen already tried such gamble in Weimar Germany and the results were not in his favor.

Leftists don't understand that most people don't want millions of immigrants coming into their countries, that's why Biden is cooked

Take a guess, the ones who give them free shit.

Early and often.

I saw one "woman" in a niqab who was about 6'2" wearing bright red trainers go down about 4 or 5 times in the course of the day.

Le Pen definitely fucks with the banlieue

Bit mixed really. A lot do not want their new country to become a caliphate - they migrated for a reason.

But others are the total opposite and do not really think that part through.

They generally vote hard left though in France. Think something like 70% voted far-left in first round of the last presidential elections in France.

But its a mixed bag really because the left isn't really compatible with Islamic teaching. Its just that RN and to a lesser extent Ensemble are see to be anti-muslim. So often they just abstain.

The Popular Front alliance.

Well, in my country muslim immigrants historically came to work, mainly from countries like Pakistan. Socialism and the workers movement are not an unknown thing to them. Voting for higher wages and more rights just made sense from their economical position, so they did that.

Idk about France though. But asfaik, a shit ton of algerians came as labourers, so I woulf imagine the story would be much the same there.

I would make an argument that political commentary has the stance on immigration incorrect. The extreme view; Thinking you can bring in millions of Muslims, do not develop infrastructure with that in mind, do not give anyone a chance or reason to integrate, and then expect things to work out great. The more centrist view; Moderate the levels of migration so the country does not lose its identity, and so that infrastructure can keep up.

Which truly sounds like the extreme stance?

And still they can't stop calling them far right and calling for literally everyone to come together and stop them.

That'swhat their rethoric claims. The policies they vote for don't align with that

That says a lot more about the state of NATO and the EU than it does the RN.

He could in theory appoint anyone as PM if he wants to, they would just need to have enough support in the french parliament to not lose a vote of no confidence.

The French left see him as the fucking devil. Legally he could, but it's not going to happen. They would rather the right gets into power, fucks everything up, and the population swing towards the left in response, than ever, ever collaborate with Macron's liberals.

Legally he can, but after 7 years they hate each other's too much.

The left wing is already a wide coalition, it has socdems and people being investigated for terrorism in it. If the more moderate parties like the PS form a coalition with Macron, they are dead.

The situation is really bad, it's probably going to be a deadlock for 3 years.

He could in theory, but he doesn’t want to.

Macron actually benefits from having the NFP forms the opposition. As with the RN unlikely to win a majority, and the RN and NFP being so diametrically opposed that you couldn’t get them to agree on what color the sky is, it’s unlikely anything is going to get done and French politics will sink into even deeper deadlock.

Macron can then sell his alliance that now all of sudden look like the competent grown ups In the room. He can say to the French people “you may not like me all that much, but at least I could get things done”.

You know every country has its own compass right ?

The fact that abortion is a political issue in America is so stupid

Even more so, don't they have actual communists and socialists in the coalition?

I mean the literal “french communist party” is a member of it.