Hundreds of thousands of people are marching against the far-right in France today, as the far-right has never been so close to power.
Images from Paris’s March, where a lot of signs are focusing on demanding that left leaders stay united to counter the far-right:
I can't help but think that a good way to keep the far right out of power would have been for Macron not to deliberately engineer a situation likely to put them in power.
Is there a quick précis on what JLM is up to? I keep seeing obviously humorous signs to the effect of, “Seize power, and also Mélenchon’s phone” or a cartoon drawing of the Front Populaire as a house of cards w/text bubble reading, “Jean-Luc, tu ne touches pas!” but I missed the underlying reference
Any movement on where Hidalgo stands? She issued a statement after the Euro elex to the effect that Macron could not continue on as before, but called the snap election “troubling.” Could she be a bridge between the aligned left and Macron? Don’t know enough French politics to understand how…
Let me guess: the cross-endorsement rates between the Popular Front and whatever Macron's party calls itself now in second rounds vs. R-Haine will be extremely low like last time?