French Municipal elections - 2nd round 28 June 2020

[windjammer]

Hidalgo will most likely be reelected imo

Yes it is likelier. Although I guess the Greens going rogue is an unlikely possibility.

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I think Dati can win. Unlikely though

[windjammer]

I think Dati can win. Unlikely though

Agreed, she can win and now it's looking possible.

Indeed,
I suspect th Buzyn voters will hurt more Hidalgo than Dati, that's why I sincerely believe Dati has a chance. She has been cementing her position with the traditional rightwing voters.

[windjammer]

At this point it looks like it will be Hidalgo vs Dati imo. Buzyn doesn't seem to be taking off.

Buzyn is at 20% after a week of campaigning, already several points up from the slime ball she replaced, and she can perhaps count on Vilani's 8%. Add to that that the electoral system does not benefit Dati and I think Buzyn would be in a strong position but for the fact that time is running out.

But for sure the media are just dying for this election to be considered "the return of LR" on the French political scene. The reason this election in Paris has descended into a farce especially is because everyone knows that Paris goes beyond the arrondissements and most of the social, urban, logistic and economic problems should really be on Ile-de-France level. Its like packing Bruxelles-Ville with loads of mediatic candidates for an election and then asking them to solve the Belgian-wide congestion problem.

France desperately needs to evaluate its multi-level governance structures and look towards the German federal model (inc. their urban zones), and that also means decentralising certain government institutions from Paris. Unfortunately you will never teach ENArques what it means to be from the Province, they prefer to cite Racine and Gracet in Parisian cocktail saloons...

The medias are often garbage but they don't have a bias for Dati. She's simply gaining in the polls.

[windjammer]

Well,
Coronavirus is terrible but I like this kind of solidary and unity emerging between all French people.

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Pierre Hurmic (EELV) ahead of the LR incumbent Nicolas Florian in Bordeaux. But the big shock is that Philippe Poutou (the NPA presidential candidate from 2017) qualifies for the second round(!). Some good coming out of today then

It's not particularly shocking, it was expected he would qualify for the second round.