European Parliament Elections Going Far Right
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Of course. It's never that their policies suck ass and they scare the crap out of people, it's that the other guy "cheats". |
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The RN did well in Southern France, where everyone who cheers for Mélenchon loves to spend their vacation.
A paradox of European politics is that almost everyone wants to live in the world that Le Pen, Orban, et al. want to preserve, yet still votes for those intent on destroying it. British Liberals typically will gush about fairly demographically stable places like villages, Edinburgh, Bath and the nice parts of London (Hampstead, Kew etc). They aspire to live there rather than Ilford, Bradford or inner Birmingham. They can't outrun it forever though. |
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Why would you need to go outside London for a more mixed area? You’ll find plenty of liberals happily living in Brixton, Camberwell, Streatham, Hackney, Bethnall Green, Bermondsey, Stockwell, etc. They are pretty demographically mixed. |
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It actually took 8 parties, I believe. The four on the left that made a coalition, plus the three that make up Macron’s center coalition—they agreed to withdraw candidates and instructed their voters to vote for whoever was left that wasn’t the RN. Plus the mainstream-right party LR left a lot of their own candidates in the races who qualified, which helped to split the votes of the right between them and the RN. I don’t think I’d call it “unfair” because this is always how the French elections have worked, being in two rounds and having candidates tactfully withdraw to block someone you really don’t want to win... but there is something about it that rubs me the wrong way. But I’d hardly call this a win for the left or the center. Create an ungovernable parliament (cause the left and center have no intention of actually joining together) just to keep another party who looked likely to win, out of power. But they still almost doubled the number of seats they won 2 years ago. |
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How on earth does anything get done with the parliament so divided? Seems ridiculous. |
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