2022 French legislatives

[CumbrianLefty]

Well done to the PS for (finally) making a good decision.

[CumbrianLefty]

I'm seeing Reconquête! at 6-7% in the polls. Is actually getting that much a realistic possibility for them? They have next to no infrastructure, very few well-known candidates and their presidential candidate flopped. I'm not sure there are that many people who are willing to vote for Random Zemmourist #47B.

His mogul backers have all this money to blow on this, I can say that it is definitely a great possibility.

I couldn't really get too upset at so many far-right votes being wasted in this way tbh.

[CumbrianLefty]

Maybe the only nominally left politician I dislike more than C***a U****a.

Glorious result.

[CumbrianLefty]

Was the 25.66% disappointing for the Nupes?
It's smaller than the sum the parties that built the Nupes had in 2017.

No it's not? PS, PCF and FI together had 21.19% while the loose "Ecologist" label (which was scattered between EELV and a bunch of other parties, some of which are with Macron now) got 4.3%, so at most we're talking 25.49%. But that's obviously not a sound way to count. The aggregate left+ecologists today is at 32.03%, compared to 27.56% in 2017.

Yeah, and compared to what appeared overwhelmingly likely *just a few months ago*.....

[CumbrianLefty]

Also comparing an online poster with powerful and influential people around Macron is whataboutery, pure and simple. Equating the mainstream left with the far right is not only morally disgusting but just about the most myopic and short term "strategising" imaginable.