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Le Pen’s far right set for big win in first round of French election (www.politico.eu)

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[-] jagermo@feddit.org 18 points 4 days ago

What other outcome did Macron expect?

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 15 points 4 days ago

No one can tell for certain, but it does seem like he's been huffing his own farts so hard he figured he could win this.

[-] sunzu@kbin.run 5 points 4 days ago

Corporatist do be like that

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 days ago

I'll never understand why he chose to call elections.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Macron is probably job hopping. Mark Rutte from the Netherlands did the same thing. Randomly disbanded the government for a lie.

Turned out Rutte had a cushy job lined up as head of NATO. Which he officially got appointed for last week

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 8 points 4 days ago

According to him, it was a "grenade between their legs". Basically he wanted to wreck shit because of his hubris, and he's doomed us all pretty much. Dude has a massive ego and can't handle the reality that he's deeply unpopular.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 days ago

He's expecting the far right to do a shit job at governing while he is still President and hopes this kills their popularity.

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

I'm sure he expected this, the real question should be why he thought this was good.

[-] sweng@programming.dev 24 points 4 days ago

Being in the government often leads to reduced popularity.

Consider the options:

No early election. RN popularity continues to rise, and they take the presidency and parliament in 2027. Result: Complete power for 5 years.
Early election. RN wins, and forms a new government. While being the ruling party, they lose in popularity and lose the elections in 2027. Result: limited power for 3 years.

To me it seems quite clear that option 2 is preferable to 1 for Macron.