@jonn sorry what ?
@julienmalka you have to cast protest vote against Le Pen. 🤷
It's not like people were like "yeah, de Gaule is the people's candidate". He was just a guy ready to stand against collaborationism with dictators, which, in modern France Le Pen represents.
I think that Macron has clearly demonstrated that when the war starts, he and his government will fight for the country.
Hence the parallel I draw between modern history of France and the current interesting situation.
@julienmalka tl;dr -- when the war is looming, comfort-policy don't matter.
Vote for those who will make sure you retain freedom.
@jonn IMHO your analysis is wrong on several aspects:
- If you care about foreign policy, war in europe, etc, this business is handled by the president, it’s in our constitution. So for this kind of matter this weekend’s election will have little impact;
- If you care about France not being ruled by a fascist government, you indeed have to vote against Le Pen. But Macron is about to become the 3rd political force in France.
Voting for the left coalition makes more sense as they only have the political force to stand against the far-right.
It is also the only way to ensure Macron is not going to do an alliance with the far right to continue governing France, as he already did several time during this term to pass anti-immigration laws.
@julienmalka oh shit, so like how do I fix the meme?! I honestly am worried about a simple thing: being on the opposing sides with Hungary, Slovakia and now France during wolrd war 3 haha.
@jonn In that case the meme is not really fixable I think. We are voting not for one person but for one candidate per « region ». Fortunately, most of the parties withdrew their candidates so that there is only the one candidate that is the most likely to win against the far-right + the far right. So actually in function of where they live french must vote either for Macron or one of the left candidates to avoid their local far-right candidate to win.
@julienmalka I know how these elections work (which is the same as those here in the #UK and completely different from the way it's handled in #Latvia and #NewZealand, where we vote for global parties and local reps).
I didn't know that the left didn't scoop to Macron though...
@jonn From Macron's own words "The left coalition is at least as dangerous as the far-right"
@julienmalka and conversely based on you saying that Macron's force shall be 3rd, I thought that the united left will get through universally haha. "Not that simple" after all.