There is little suspense despite what the media have said over the last week, pretending to fear a Le Pen win but simply pushing for a Macron vote so he would be more legitimate...
I am of course only an outsider watching, but I do think against Le Pen he should be as legitimate as possible.
The time to vote against him was in the first round and is again in the parlamentarial election. There he should face a strong opposition, especially from the left, so that he needs to inlcude them to get anything through.
But every single percent point Le Pen gets in this run off, makes the fascist dogs all over Europe lick more blood.
That's where I disagree. Only 16% of the French electors voted for Macron in the first round, so he's hardly legitimate anyway. And he embodies what might give even more vote to the FN in the future.
This isn't 2002 anymore. We have learnt our lesson. Against Le Pen, Chirac won with 82% in 2002 and it set the path for Sarkozy's awful policy and Holland's neoliberalism which both made the FN vote grow much bigger.
They have used the FN since 2002, to be sure to be elected against any FN candidate eventually, and they were backed by mainstream media who kept giving disproportionate media coverage to those fascists.
We should send a clear message that we are not sheeps and they all must stop playing with fire or the whole country will ended up being burnt.
This is going to be an election with a record of abstention/null vote and yet the FN will be defeated. It is important to see the number of vote MLP got, rather than the percentage. It is what European media should point out.
There he should face a strong opposition, especially
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I agree that the media are giving way to much coverage to the fascists which gives them power because they are feared. But the problem is that nothing can change unless people actually en mass turn to a more radical left
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The time to vote against him was in the first round and is again in the parlamentarial election. There he should face a strong opposition, especially from the left, so that he needs to inlcude them to get anything through.
But every single percent point Le Pen gets in this run off, makes the fascist dogs all over Europe lick more blood.
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This isn't 2002 anymore. We have learnt our lesson. Against Le Pen, Chirac won with 82% in 2002 and it set the path for Sarkozy's awful policy and Holland's neoliberalism which both made the FN vote grow much bigger.
They have used the FN since 2002, to be sure to be elected against any FN candidate eventually, and they were backed by mainstream media who kept giving disproportionate media coverage to those fascists.
We should send a clear message that we are not sheeps and they all must stop playing with fire or the whole country will ended up being burnt.
This is going to be an election with a record of abstention/null vote and yet the FN will be defeated. It is important to see the number of vote MLP got, rather than the percentage. It is what European media should point out.
There he should face a strong opposition, especially ( ... )
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