French Elections 2024

The calculation may be that people won't vote the same way or that his support will show up...it's a potentially ruinous strategy tho'.
 
ARRAY OF THEORIES:

- He might be doing it in a sort of "get it out of your system now, vote not fash when it's a serious election again" way

- The bitch is just addicted to drama

- "imo Macron is doing it because he doesn't like that the twink National Rally leader is getting more attention than him. Classic gay man behaviour"

- "You know how old queens get when their looks start to go"
 
Does this mean Le Pen as president? :gross:
It’s a parliamentary election, not presidential.

Fwiw I think Macron is expecting a bit of a vibe shift following the UK election. The second round of voting is the Sunday after our polling day.
 
Prime Minister possibly
Jordan Bardella would be PM if National Rally win. The leadership is, let’s say, eccentric, and generally considered incompetent. Macron’s bet is either, a) it acts as a call to arms against the far right and he gets his pick of PM, or b) the RN get in and become massively unpopular in government, leading to a clear run for him in the 2027 presidential election
 
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How do two round parliamentary elections work please?

Bonus question: is it just the French that do it and if so, why are the French so French please?
 
@Dark Carnival to explain and apologize
Ha! I never claimed this cunt and have always said it, centrists are fascist enablers :)

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How do two round parliamentary elections work please?

Bonus question: is it just the French that do it and if so, why are the French so French please?

The parliament consists of single member constituencies like us. If a member gets an absolute majority in the first round they are directly elected. If not it goes to a run off with the second placed candidate (sometimes more if the third placed gets a significant proportion), then it’s a simple winner takes all.
 
The parliament consists of single member constituencies like us. If a member gets an absolute majority in the first round they are directly elected. If not it goes to a run off with the second placed candidate (sometimes more if the third placed gets a significant proportion), then it’s a simple winner takes all.
And why is this nonsense preferable to ranked choice please?
 
How do two round parliamentary elections work please?

Bonus question: is it just the French that do it and if so, why are the French so French please?
First round: multiple candidates
Second round: usually top two from the first round or however many candidates that got at least 12.5% of registered voters.
 
First round: multiple candidates
Second round: usually top two from the first round or however many candidates that got at least 12.5% of registered voters.
This system usually allows to block far right candidates in the second round. Unless it’s far right vs left in which case centrists don’t call their voters to back the left, because ‘the far right and the left are as bad are each other’ :eyes:
 
And why is this nonsense preferable to ranked choice please?
It’s just the way they decide to do it. It does offer some breathing room by having an extended election process, and the opportunity for the electorate to get whatever protest out of their system in the first round.

It’s the preferential voting system across South America, and Croatia, Finland, Poland and Portugal have similar systems in Europe.
 
Jordan Bardella would be PM if National Rally win. The leadership is, let’s say, eccentric, and generally considered incompetent. Macron’s bet is either, a) it acts as a call to arms against the far right and he gets his pick of PM, or b) the RN get in and become massively unpopular in government, leading to a clear run for him in the 2027 presidential election
He can’t run again
 
Would this snap election not push the next one into 2028? (Assuming another premature one wasn’t called)
 


This seems like *quite* a gamble if true!

Where do the French far-right stand on arming Ukraine, for instance?
 


This seems like *quite* a gamble if true!

Where do the French far-right stand on arming Ukraine, for instance?

They have a vey ambiguous position regarding Ukraine, mostly abstaining when it comes to these votes, to not pass as pro-Russian.
 
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They have a vey ambiguous position regarding Ukraine, mostly abstaining when it comes to these votes, to not pass as pro-Russian.
although they very much are , Marine Le Pen has close ties to Putin, she borrowed the funds to finance her campaign from him
 
I’m completely shocked about the extent people have voted for the Far Right Parties of Le Pen and Marion Marechal in France ..apart from Paris Jordan Bardella, the far right candidate, came first EVERYWHERE, and the homophobic niece of Le Pen has more votes than the Green Party. It’s all too depressing to comprehend
 
I’m completely shocked about the extent people have voted for the Far Right Parties of Le Pen and Marion Marechal in France ..apart from Paris Jordan Bardella, the far right candidate, came first EVERYWHERE, and the homophobic niece of Le Pen has more votes than the Green Party. It’s all too depressing to comprehend
In 2022, Macron beat Le Pen by roughly 60 to 40. That’s about how much Bardella and the niece got combined yesterday. It’s still a considerable percentage of absolute racists in a country where the media is basically controlled by the right/far right.
Oh and the green fell a bit this time but they still got about the same as the racist niece, both get 5 elected members.
 
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The thing is this has split the party (Les Républicains, basically Tories) in two, with a good chunk wanting an alliance with Le Pen.
 

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