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I admit that I don´t understand French political culture. Why on earth does every obscure political formation in the Hexagon insist on fielding candidates of their own in the first round of the presidentials?
Judging by the prognosis for the recent presidential elections, Marine Le Pen has a narrow lead over leftist candidate Mélenchon. Which means that the left must vote Macron to stop Le Pen in the second round.
*But if the Communists, New Anticapitalist Party and Lutte Ouvrière had voted for Mélenchon in the first round, he would have defeated Le Pen*.
I can´t say that I give much damn, but it does show the sectarian idiocy of these people (by their own standards). In 2002, the left split their votes so badly that Jean-Marie Le Pen (the real fascist) defeated them, presumably forcing the leftists to vote for regular rightist Jacques Chirac in the second round.
Or am I missing something somewhere? Maybe the French left wants excuses to form popular fronts?
Mélenchon is trailing very close to Marine Le Pen, so I suppose it´s possible *she* will have to decide how to vote in the second round instead. Mélenchon or Macron?
ReplyDeleteDon´t count on it, though.
And if Eric Zemmour and that paleo-Gaullist guy had voted for Le Pen in the first round, she would have gotten more votes than Macron!
ReplyDeleteGod, I hate the French.
ReplyDeleteIt must be a popular frontist instinct, and perhaps a conviction that of course the (nominally accursed) Fifth Republic will endure forever, so why bother? As long as the Trots and the Coms can field their little propagandistique candidates, everything is well in the world (and you can stealthily vote for the Gaullist or even the Atlanticist against the Pétainist in the second round).
ReplyDeleteThe centrists are suffering from the same malaise, why didn´t the centrist parties all line up behind Macron in the first round?
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