French presidential election, 2022

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

When France sends it people to Israel, Syria, the Fergana Valley, Russia, North Korea, the Shanghai area, or Thailand...

ETA: Antonio informs me that the Shanghai-based overseas constituency/precinct/whatever is the correct term is not, in fact, a narrow Zemmour win, but blank because the Chinese government imposed a lockdown and nobody was able to vote. So French Shanghainese might well be right-wing extremists, but We Just Don't Know because of hyperauthoritarian Chinese forever-COVID ridiculousness. If that's not the zeitgeist, I don't know what is.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Beautiful!

The Pyrenees and neighboring parts of what used to be called Languedoc and Gascony stand out as incredibly based-seeming areas of hard-left, residual-center-left, AND rural-interests-candidate strength, or at least relative strength. Conversely, this really drives home how toxic the Riviera's political climate is just a few hours east.