Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 1 hour later[^][v]#1,308,098
I was surprised that the french guy decided to call for elections, but now, it looks like recent elections will strengthen legitimacy in times that might be trying on such matters.
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 4 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,308,218
@1,308,212 (D)
I mean by that metric, 73% of people didn't vote or voted for someone other than Le Pen. A majority of the votes cast (~51%) went to Ensemble and NPF, who were united against Le Pen, so they are going to form a coalition government. And it's not about vote % received, it's about seats won, as you know.
Anonymous D replied with this 1 year ago, 56 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,308,227
@1,308,218 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU) > ... Ensemble and NPF, who were united ...
The fact remains that more people voted for Le Pen than any other party. And conflating those two parties is absurd - "united" is so not the right word! Mélenchon detests Macron almost as much as he hates Le Pen, and Macron spent most of the election cycle demonizing Mélenchon's party as dangerous extremists.
> And it's not about vote % received, it's about seats won, as you know.
Yes, FPTP is broken.
@1,308,217 (dw !p9hU6ckyqw) > I'm sure you were voicing similar complaints at trump in 2016
While I agree that the electoral college system is almost as broken as FPTP, the 2016 result was a much closer margin - less than 2% - and both percentages were substantially higher (though both were below 50%). By comparison, getting 25% of the popular vote yet somehow ending up in power is shockingly bad.
dw !p9hU6ckyqw replied with this 1 year ago, 1 hour later, 22 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,308,238
@1,308,227 (D)
That's how the French system has always worked and now you're complaining because you don't like the results. Also no one voted for Le Pen because she wasn't running.
Anonymous D replied with this 1 year ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,308,254
@previous (dw !p9hU6ckyqw) > That's how the French system has always worked and now you're complaining because you don't like the results.
I'm not complaining. I'm just stating facts and correcting the @OP. Fortunately I don't live in France, so it doesn't affect me.
> Also no one voted for Le Pen because she wasn't running.
What are you talking about? National Rally is her party. Jordan Bardella is the president and she is the parliamentary party leader (president in the national assembly). When the 2027 presidential elections roll round, Le Pen will almost certainly run for president and Bardella would then be her PM.
No it's absolutely definitely fascism and if you don't want a hundred million Pakistanis and Africans to move there then it's because you're racist and a Nazi.