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Radical, angry and anti-NATO: A peek into France’s new National Assembly
Gridlock and uncertainty imperil France’s incoming National Assembly as tactical voting delivered a surprise election victory for a hard-left alliance of socialists, communists and greens.
Sunday’s second round of French parliamentary elections saw the New Popular Front (NFP) – a coalition of socialists, communists, greens and their allies – snatch an election victory amid a surging far-right National Rally (RN).
The election was a rare example of a gamble paying off in politics. Called in response to RN’s success in June’s European elections, the snap poll caught the right off balance and even precipitated a civil war in the centre-right Les Republicains.
Of course, the results of the French election have been well covered. While Europe’s establishment celebrates the loss of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella’s RN, the incoming NFP coalition will bring anti-NATO and Russophilic policymaking right back into the heart of France’s National Assembly.
With 1.65 million French citizens living in overseas territories across the Indo-Pacific, Australia needs to be weary of how a nod to the world’s increasingly belligerent revisionist nations will add fuel to an already volatile region.
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