Particularly interesting is that she was elected again with a higher number of votes than her initial election, despite concerns over serious headwinds from the far-right. Not sure what this portends, but interesting.
Previously she was elected by a coalition of the center-left, center, and center-right. Due to major losses by the center, she made concessions to get the greens on board as well, which is why the vote count is up.
It's part of a broader trend in Europe where in most countries, since the share of the far-right grows and the share of everyone else shrinks, the absolute refusal to work with the far right is leading the remaining parties to attempt increasingly complex and discordant coalitions.
My take is doing this means that people who vote far-right never get any evidence that they should change their vote and people who are dissatisifed with what they vote for are left with increasingly few alternatives since the majority coalition sucks up more and more parties.
I think it will be interesting in a few years to compare the likes of France and Germany who are all in on the blockade, vs the Netherlands or Sweden where the far right is part of a governing coalition they don't have full control over.
