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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It took 4 parties to combine and 224 candidates to drop out for a win… very “democratic.”

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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. [b]Plus[/b] 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.[/quote]

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