and more to the point, will they be able to keep a government going given the split amongst the parties?
This suggest some depressing options. Not quite down to the Liz Truss level; yet.
The PM needs to be able to create compromises between the disparate political forces. It’s hard to imagine who will be willing and able to take on the task.
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Especially when said “disparate forces” are happy to tear down the whole structure if it gives them a personal advantage.
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Probably a general election then?
I believe that there would have to be another dissolution before another election could be held. I don’t think that is possible this year. Maybe next year though…
Too long, France cannot go on without a government which functions. Disparate forces or not, something needs to happen. I can see Macron going
Then what? Swivel-eyed loons from both ends of the spectrum.
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Probably… again
Yes, a difficulty is that it is a peu pres 30 / 30 / 30. Donc…
He’ll just have to go round France asking everyone till he can find someone who’s prepared to be the next fall guy for a couple of months. I asked my daughter if he’d called her yet but apparently she’s some way down on the list.
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A few years ago Belgium thrived when it went for over a year without a working government.
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Though, of course, Belgium was only missing one of its many, many governments.
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I can only remember the news stories which claimed that the MP’s partners had got together and threatened to withdraw sex if they didn’t go back to work.
Shades of Lysistrata 
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There has to be at least one year between general elections in France.
What are the odds on this one lasting more than 6 months?
Who will be the next pm of France?
Even after he was named, people were still asking, who will be the next pm of France?
I was mildly pleased that it was Bayrou, his party was the nearest to the LibDems I thought at the time when I was allowed to vote in France.