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French elections
By: Gregory Date: June 30, 2024, 5:53 am
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The French vote in the first round for a new parliament today
with all the forecasts predicting a victory for Marine Le Pen's
ultra right-wing party, Rassemblement National (The National
Rally in English), with Le Pen's protégé, the hard-line
candidate for the post of prime minister, the 28-year-old Jordan
Bardella. This would be in line with the general rightward tilt
in most EU countries.
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Re: French elections
By: Gregory Date: July 1, 2024, 3:00 am
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Le Pen's Rassemblement National party has won the first round of
the parliamentary elections with 34% of the vote, with Macron's
cobbled together Renaissance party coming a poor third with just
20% of the vote. The decisive second round next Sunday.
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Re: French elections
By: guest18 Date: July 1, 2024, 4:36 am
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That is extremely concerning. :o
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Re: French elections
By: Gregory Date: July 6, 2024, 11:41 am
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All eyes are now on the second round of the French parliamentary
election tomorrow with Marine Le Pen's National Rally party
tipped to get a majority vote. We'll see if the other parties
have managed to garner enough votes to block that.
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Re: French elections
By: Gregory Date: July 8, 2024, 2:08 am
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The results have been a shock for everyone. The far right of Le
Pen has been defeated and relegated to third place while the far
left France Insumise has won. This party is no French version of
the Labour Party with its moderate form of socialism and their
leader, Mélenchon, is no French version of Sir Keir Starmer. He
is a neo-Stalinist hard-liner of the old school who wouldn't be
out of place as the dictator of one of the East European
'People's Democracies' of the 1950's. Fortunately, his party
doesn't have a majority and will have to seek some arrangement
with President Macron's cobbled-together centrist party,
Renaissance, which came second, certainly unlikely bedfellows.
As Bette Davis remarked in one of her films,'All About Eve':
"Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy ride!"
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Re: French elections
By: gwinnie Date: July 8, 2024, 4:27 pm
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We certainly live in ‘interesting’ times. US up next…
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