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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The polls were totally wrong in France and the far right did not win. I don’t believe any of these polls. [/quote]

French person here.

The polls were actually very accurate, but the French have long employed a voting barrier against the extreme-right, in the following way: in the second and final round, if a district race seemed like it could elect a far-right representative, the other parties agreed that the one with the least votes would bow out of the second round so that people could vote for the other party just to prevent the far-right from winning. It's called a triangular election: Say the left has the most votes, the far-right comes a close second, and the center comes third, at the end of the first round. The centrist candidate bows out, leaving the field to his lefty colleague and all the centrist voters vote for the left instead of the far-right. The left wins. If the centrist candidate had maintained his candidacy, it would split the vote, and the far-right could win. Historically, this method of protecting France against far-right encroachment has been called the Republican Front, and it's been used many times in several elections before. The idea is that nothing could be worse than the hateful, racist and neo-Nazi rhetoric of the extreme right, not even the Communists, and it comes from our collective WWII trauma.

The fear for this particular election was that with the ascent of the new, young and photogenic far-right leader, Jordan Bardella, as well as the extreme divisions among the French, this Republican Front would not hold. For the time being, we squeaked by once again... phew!

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