if you need updates on french politics or just wanna know why we are all posting about guillotines without context:
about 2 months ago were legislative elections. you elect deputies, who are part of 1 of 2 chambers laws must go through to get accepted and the biggest potential barrage to laws. they are considered the prime representants of the french people, and the prime minister is traditionally from the party in majority, which makes sense
in a never-seen-in-a-decade event, the biggest leftist parties coalesced into an aliance that won these elections, unexpectedly outclassing both the presidential party and the far right coalition
but this is just context. now cometh the time for blood
for two months, the government tried to argue, to not elect a leftist prime minister, to delay things, rejecting candidate proposition and always hinting at this or that right winger being a better pick. they said "we can't with the olympics" to buy some time. they pointed to a "problematic" (slightly mean and egocentric) sub-party of the aliance, and ignored it when said sub-party withdrew and said no member would become part of the new government. they have stopped looking for excuses weeks ago. they're just like "well if these people become minister the policies will change!" which. duh. people were sensing the incoming shitfest and they were right: a right wing old guy just got anounced as new prime minister. not saying all old guys are bad, but this one was old enough to have voted against the legalisation of homosexuality apparently so.
we've been waving the phrase "we've killed kings for less than that" around for a while now but we're fucking right and saying this is a denial of democracy is barely an exageration
tldr: the left won but a right winger is now prime minister because the government didn't feel like honoring the voice of the people and decided to side with their friends instead