French presidential election, 2022

[Blair]

Glass houses & all but from someone with a relative laymans understanding of French Politics & society it's interesting (in a bizarre way) how Petain & Dreyfus are still somehow seen as something worth arguing about.

[Blair]

It’s interesting how Macrom appeared to have a 5 year strategy of essentially hugging the traditional centre right- it seems to have killed the LR in the first round but doesn’t seem to be benefiting him in the second round, nor massively increasing his first round vote.

I wonder if he’ll wheel out Sarkosky to endorse him…

[Blair]

I don’t follow French politics close enough to see normal coverage of it but it does seem that Macron is lacking the support that he got in 2017 from high profile figures people outside of LREM- I guess it’s a combination of burnt bridges.

There is of course the very real problem of 2027; it will be mildly hilarious to see who Macron thinks his heir should be judging by his cabinet picks over the past year. 

[Blair]

Yeah it’s certainly frustrating about Melenchon but as others have said the fact that the numbers for the ‘alternative’ left were so low shows that many of those who didn’t vote for Melenchon very much did so for a reason.

Of course an alternative candidate of the left would have struggled because they would have had Melenchon eating into their vote!

Hopefully it helps to set minds ahead of 2027….