2022 French legislatives

[Хahar 🤔]

They've agreed to it, but this is the last nail in the coffin for them. The party will rip apart because many will still want to hedge their bets tying themselves to Macronisme instead of following the diktat of the Strasserite Robespierre redux.

The question of whether the Socialist Party should ally with the larger party to its left or instead with the non-Gaullist right feels very fifty years ago.

[Хahar 🤔]

parochial boy discussed this case earlier:

The one dissident that I have seen getting a lot of attention is Michèle Picard, mayor of Vénissieux, in the 14th. In particular because she is standing against journalist-slash-campaigner Taha Bouhafs, whose candidacy seems to have created a collective meltdown among the right and the cultural elite. Basically down to the extent he is an avatar of all they hate about the young Arab men from the banlieues. He is intensely controversial overall, and the consitituency is an old PCF stronghold. Though I haven't got a clue how well Picard will do in the end, or what sort of backlash against Bouhafs there might be.

[Хahar 🤔]

Qu'est-ce que c'est ... dégueulasses ?