Recapping:
—Great night for far-right. Big surges all around France. Can win next week, but nothing certain.
—Left bloc 2nd. But not great for them: stable since 2022, not what they need to win overall.
—Macronists 3rd, will fall A LOT. But got just enough to still make many runoffs.
Macronists need to get on-board with blocking the far right at all costs.
With fascists ascendant the world over, difficult not to feel as if humankind is giving up/imploding
A new tune is emerging on TV in past hour: Several Macron spokespeople clearly signal they'll try for their bloc to ally with center-left MPs (from PS) & conservative MPs (from LR) to form some sort of governing coalition. (That'd involve left bloc splitting.)