by Paul Joseph Watson, Summit News:

Despite vowing to not make an alliance with the “extremist” far-left, French President Emmanuel Macron is now set to do just that in order to block Marine Le Pen’s National Rally from securing an absolute parliamentary majority.

The anti-mass migration party won a third of all votes in the first round of voting, beating both Macron’s establishment centrist movement and the far-left New Popular Front.

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The result gave them an outside chance of securing the 289 seats required to form an absolute majority in Parliament and be in a position to enact important policies.

However, despite repeatedly insisting that the far-left were as “extremist” and “dangerous” as the far-right, Macron has now indicated he will close ranks with the far-left to sabotage any chance Le Pen has of forming a majority.

“Candidates who have qualified for Sunday’s second round for the Macron camp or the Popular Front now have until 18:00 on Tuesday to decide whether or not to withdraw, to maximise the chances of a political rival defeating National Rally,” reports BBC News.

A large number of candidates representing both Macron’s Ensemble alliance and the far-left New Popular Front have already stood down in an attempt to stop Le Pen.

Macron did a deal with a far left whereby their respective candidates would endorse the better-placed competitor. This deal could prevent the National Rally from getting an absolute majority. https://t.co/l4pExvBAOb

— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) July 2, 2024

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said it was a “moral duty” to stop National Rally obtaining power.

“Our objective is clear, to prevent the Rassemblement National from having an absolute majority in the second round, from dominating the Assemblée Nationale and therefore from governing the country with the disastrous project it has in mind,” he said.

Unlike the left, the center-right Republicans, who won 10 per cent of the vote on Sunday, have refused to make an alliance with National Rally.

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