So they're all pulling together for the good of the country. Might wanna take notes.
Yeah, especially on how they got into this position by electing a dipshit neolib who pushed pro-business and anti-migrant policies while refusing to push back against the far right until it became a problem for him personally
Nothing like the justification of fascism...welcome to my save file.
Justifying and explaining are not the same thing
is your strategy to fight rising fascism reliant on doing the same thing you've always done and ignoring history and contemporary examples
I’m a bit unclear here; how does withdrawing from the next set of runoffs help prevent the problem? This article really doesn’t say.
I know nothing about their system, but wouldn’t that mean the people still running won by default? Or is this more to only give people two options instead of 3+ which dilutes the vote maybe? Does France not have some sort of ranked voting?
The centrist and left-wing parties have agreed to drop their candidates in districts where either’s candidates may split the vote in favor of the far-right. It would be like the independent candidates that take votes from Biden drop out to give him better margins.
So they don’t have ranked voting, then?
Well, good for them for working together to hopefully sidestep the worst of it. I hope it works.
It's a parliament, so they vote for local representatives who in turn vote for national leaders.
The second election usually have 2 contenders, but in these cases you can have three (or the rare 4) so if there are the fachos, the left and the right present, the party with the lowest score might drop out so that their electorate will/might vote for the right/left candidate still in the race thus upping the possibility to win.
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