To say a massive well done to the people of France...

[MrsBennetsPoorNerves]

For telling the far right National Rally to fuck off to the far side of fuck!!!

So relieved!

Sounds like the right derangement syndrome.

Give it 5 years and see how those stalinists (many of them self-proclaimed) drag France further into the gutter.

They already showed what they are capable of during their recent riots, obviously not reported by the MSM.

The Nazis started with racist people like your parents. It is morally wrong to tolerate people like that.

I get that it's more complicated if your parents hold views like this. I'm not asking you to disown them, but surely you don't expect others to tolerate their horrible views?

You've been subjected to racism but your own parents are racist? What do you mean?

The French far left are one of the most fascistic people in the world of politics today. Just wait and see although I suspect not much will be reported in the MSM.

I'm asking for understanding before foaming at the mouth/pitch forks etc. Obviously there's alot of unhappy people right now. I think it's more to do with the economic climate. Put 2 spiders together in the same box and they'll kill each other to survive.

It's a broad left alliance, with Macron's party very close behind in second.

Why are people trying to suggest that the hard left will be running the show?

I bet if we'd had such a system, we'd never have had Brexit.

I completely agree. My grandparents were breathtakingly racist. My DM is a Reform voter. I went to university in Brighton, met people from
everywhere and every gender/sexuality. If you can mix with people of different backgrounds/orientations and hate them, there’s something very wrong with you.

Phew!

This, 110%.

France has always had a far right following.

Don’t… get… me… started 🙈🙈🙈

You've been subjected to racism but your own parents are racist? What do you mean?

Sorry for the derail. To explain, just because you're an ethnic minority doesn't mean you can't be v racist. In other words they're normal people too!

I also dislike this moral superiority over other people’s countries and feeling entitled to a say in their democratic processes. Why aren’t you starting threads about the South African election? Is it just Western countries capable of bad electoral decisions in your eyes or are non-Western countries held to the same scrutiny?

Did the people of France tell them to ‘fuck off’ or did the left just out-manoeuvre them? If one of the centre / left wing candidates hadn’t stood down in most seats they’d have got elected, would they? I’m no fan of the RN btw, I’m centre left

The result is a triumph of compromise

Many candidates withdrew so as not to split votes and people held their noses and voted for parties they didn't support.

The hard right will be deeply unhappy at being shafted

There's always a core of the population who have far right views. I think about 25% to 30%.

How do you know this? I’ve done some research and can’t find anything suggesting that.

I suspect the maneuvering and the standing down of so many candidates is going to leave the right-wing voters feeling very frustrated and fuel their discontent. This wasn't some glorious victory and there will be more trouble ahead.

I think this too. It’s further forcing the pressure cooker closed.

People of all colours can be racist.

I can't understand why anyone would be happy that the hard left is potentially in power.
Surely everyone is now aware there isn't much in the hard left and hard right.

Completely agree.
Haven't seen the percentages for the second round, but for the first one it was 1 in 5 who voted for the National Rally.
I'm glad the majority managed to come together and express that it didn't want. Most people in the UK did not vote for Brexit, and didn't vote for Johnson in 2019... At least on this occasion in France, the majority got its way.
You're welcome

Well, one country is our immediate neighbor, one is the other side of the world.

Secondly, while I know the ANC's support dropped, they remain the governing party in SA so from an international perspective I'm not sure that the SA elections were particularly noteworthy?

You’d hope there’s enough evidence in the world - Russia, N. Korea to name just a couple - to indicate that extremes are generally bad.

Two cheeks of the same arse if you ask me.

But I’m biased: some of my family were sentenced to die in Auschwitz and some were tortured to death in communist prisons not long after the WW2 ended.