droodzilla
pfm Member
72% is grim.The left did well, depriving Macron of a majority.
And: where the options were left or far right, "centrist" candidates refused to endorse the left, and so did centrist voters.
"According to the below, when faced with a choice between Le Pen's National Rally and the left-wing NUPES coalition, 72% of the voters who back Macron's party (LREM) didn't vote"
https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1538621701587619847?s=20&t=BtdX5v3wO9K9QXlHRo_C-Q
"Ipsos project 89 MPs for Le Pen’s Rassemblement National. In 56 of 61 run-offs between NUPES and the RN, Macron’s losing first round candidate refused to support the left-winger, in many cases condemning ‘all extremes’"
https://twitter.com/broderly/status/1538609205535559680?s=20&t=BtdX5v3wO9K9QXlHRo_C-Q
By rights we should now have a few pages discussing what centrists have in common with fascists, how centrists are so obsessed with purity they end up enabling fascists etc.
Anyway, let's see what Macron does: an actual alliance with fascists seems to be a real possibility.
Trying to be objective (yes, I know!)... do we know how many left-wing voters abstained, given a choice between Macron's bunch and the far-right? What did the left-wing coalition candidate recommend in that scenario?
Will be interesting to see what Macron does. Will a coalition with the old Republican right give him a majority?