So wait, the French changed their minds from last week
The left rioted and threatened the electorate for the last week, and in true French fashion the voters surrendered.
Macron’s so-called centrists united with the far left. The new government will be dominated by a coalition of socialists, communists and greens..
“So wait, the French changed their minds from last week”
Not really, RN got about 33% in the first round, they will get a bit more than that in this round. However mid 30s will not be enough to win in many constituencies whenever there is only one other candidate
Time for all European Jews to go to Israel.
—”So wait, the French changed their minds from last week”
An old cliche says the French vote with their heart in the first round and vote with their wallet in the second round.
Nothing unusual.
Various parties on the Left over the last month banded together to form a "The New Popular Front" which is a coalition of Socialists, Ecologists, Communists and France Unbowed (LFI) Parties, after President Macron's Party "Renaissance" did very poorly in EU elections and Macron called a snap election last month.
The New Popular Front coordinated removing smaller or less-popular candidates from its various member parties, to give the most popular candidates a chance to defeat Le Pen's "National Rally" Party, which did quite well, but also could not achieve a majority.
This New Popular Front will not have a majority, so will likely argue among themselves, but like all radical leftists, have already declared for open borders, allowing more immigrants, pro-criminal policies, etc...
Expect France to become quite chaotic.
No. The reports from last week were written by idiots that can’t do simple math.
Last week the National Rally (RN) party won 34% of the vote. While this is obviously far short of the 50% needed for control, it was more than any other single party. So everyone over here starts jumping up and down yelling “the right won - the right won”.
Looking at the reality of the situation, as opposed to trying to make it a single number, in some areas the RN won by a solid majority. In other areas they had as little as 20-25%, that being the highest amount out of 5 or more parties.
In the new runoff election the RN didn’t gain much support from people who were previously supporting candidates now excluded from the race. Parties on the left however strategically had candidates drop out where the vote was being split and ensured that all liberals would vote for a single candidate.
So the French didn’t change their minds at all. RN never had a majority. They were the leading minority party in some areas, but lost the runoffs, as was expected.
No. The opposition stopped splitting their vote.