{"id":752486,"date":"2022-07-20T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=249708"},"modified":"2022-07-20T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T06:00:20","slug":"french-politics-since-its-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/07\/20\/french-politics-since-its-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"French Politics Since Its Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the presidential election in April which returned the incumbent Emmanuel Macron to power, France held elections on 12 and 19 June 2022 to elect the 577 members of its National Assembly. The results turned out to be somewhat inconclusive. Macron is the first president not have an absolute majority in Parliament since 1977, and since none of the 4 main alliances won a majority, France has a hung parliament for the first time since 1988. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/20\/french-politics-since-its-presidential-election\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/20\/french-politics-since-its-presidential-election\/\">French Politics Since Its Presidential Election<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/20\/french-politics-since-its-presidential-election\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the presidential election in April which returned the incumbent Emmanuel Macron to power, France held elections on 12 and 19 June 2022 to elect the 577 members of its National Assembly. The results turned out to be somewhat inconclusive. Macron i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752487,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752486\/revisions\/752487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}