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4 days ago
elections are happening today. Does anyone have some knowledge how things are looking?
- As far as I see the far-right are winning the election, but not with enough votes to gain a majority so they will need to form a coalition with someone else.
- The leftist big tent party are polling as solid second. Mélenchon is cool and based, but I’m wondering how many positions did he have to concede to form the party?
- Macron’s party is eating shit lol Why would you call snap elections at your party’s weakest point in history??? Probably the biggest unforced error in politics since Biden agreeing to a live debate (so since yesterday I guess? God liberals are dumb)
I agree with that. He was going for a repeat of the presidential election, but miscalculated the left.
France has a two-round system, so even if the far-right won the first round he just needed to keep second place and the left would be forced to back him up in the second round giving him an easy win. But with the left overperforming, now his voters are the ones forced to do the whole “lesser evil” dance in a lot of districts. It will be interesting to see in which direction they are going to break.