What even was Macron thinking that would happen
4D chess, you wouldn’t understand 😆
And the far right is expected to have a relative majority in the parliament…
There’s a pretty good chance they’ll fuck shit up though and discredit themselves, so the left being in the second place and libs having already discredited themselves is not a bad situation.
Melanchon is popular enough to have gotten a very close 3rd place on the first turn of the last presidential elections despite the votes being split between 5 “leftist” parties and now they have formed a coalition so it’s definitely possible.
Indeed, I’m optimistic that the left in France will get their shit together in the long run.
I wish I was that optimistic. Orban has been in power since 2010 in Hungary and there is no sign of him going anywhere.
I’m afraid that once they have the parliament, they’ll write some fucked up law that will allow them to stay in power indefinitely. I don’t remember what it was exactly, but in the last presidential election they had a campaign promise that was something like “the elected party will automatically get 30% of the seats on parliament”. Those people are crazy.
Hungary doesn’t really have a strong left movement the way France does though. When there’s no left alternative, then people moving out of the mainstream will naturally move right.
