Check out this hot take from Politico:
Their initial aim was to stop Le Pen’s party winning an outright majority, which seemed a likely outcome a week ago. It seems instead their efforts may have handed the initiative to the other extreme of French politics, the far-left.
Mélenchon said the New Popular Front would want to implement its manifesto, including revoking Macron’s controversial pensions reforms and introducing big hikes in the minimum wage.
The extremism is horrifying!
Never mind the Holocaust-denying public media-disbanding police-empowering Putin-asskissing Right, the real threat is the pension-giving, minimum wage-setting Left!!
They’re EXTREMIST! Both sides!!
This false horseshoe is so dumb. Although Melanchon has some problems, especially his views on Ukraine and Russia :/
Disappointing from Politico, I thought they had a good read on politics but it seems they’re incompetent enough to not be able to understand the french political landscape: the far left is mostly composed of NPA and LO who are trying to gain power through revolution, not the classic socdem parties playing by the elections rules
Edit : wow thanks for the context, friends, didn’t know they had changed owners
Politico was bought years ago by German Axel Springer SE, the producers of trash like BILD and WELT (also a short-lived BILD TV that was designed as a best-of between RT and Fox News). They don’t have a clue about french politics, just like they don’t have a clue about anything else. All they got is a right-wing desinformation agenda.
They’d be wise to not have Melenchon to be a candidate for Macron’s position though, because he still has some actually extreme views. If they can present a more moderate option then that’d be a good step though. Either way, Le Pen lost again, and that’s the main goal here.
Good news? In this day and age???
Still a lot of additional seats for RN from 88 to 130-150 143. It’s not all good, just less bad than expected.
At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the world, localized entirely within France!?
Wow. I was really worried about France this morning. I mean, the far right is still really strong there but I honestly expected them to.get the majority.
Apes together strong indeed.
Although the projection is better than what I was dreading, it’s still not over until the last results are in. With that being said, if these projections are right, the current and upcoming French government should really start thinking about how to combat the far right. Incidentally it’s the same task the new Labour government should also do.
The new Labour government is basically the political equivalent of Macron only in some ways further to the Right (for example, they support Israel).
That party is controlled by the neoliberal faction who brought down Corbyn with a smear campaign orchestrated with the Tories and most of the British Press and who have even been busy kicking out from the party any lefties.
There’s not a single leftie bone in the leadership of that party and the party is now straightforward Right (per broader European standards, it’s not even Center-Right).
If one is in any way form of shape left of center, Britain’s Election results isn’t anywhere the level of good news that the French Election results are (if the polls are right).
