Now WE have to do the same.
Via Kyle Griffin:
One week in Europe:
* Britain rejected the Conservative Party after 14 years in power.
* France rejected the far-right, embracing a leftwing alliance with centrists.
In France at least, the media was predicting a far right win.
The media, and their billionaire oligarch owners, are not neutral arbiters of the news, and they are not on the side of the people or democracy.
Maybe that's why people came out in droves in France and voted. They had the highest turnout in years.
Perhaps an "inevitable" right wing takeover was so frightening that they came out and voted against it.
@MsMissy @mastodonmigration @GottaLaff
That is EXACTLY what happened.
We had the prospect of a government so horrible and unhinged most French people stood up and said "no way".
(Source: I am French)
@ParadeGrotesque @MsMissy @mastodonmigration @GottaLaff Also noting that this is one of the benefits of two round system where you have a chance to mobilize if things are going badly. Not as robust as ranked voting but without it we'd be in a really bad place here in France right now.
Electoral and vote reform should be a top issue *everywhere*
@MsMissy @mastodonmigration @GottaLaff
Le Pen, traditionally fails at the 2nd round. That was so in the good old days of the FN, and it stayed so with the RN. No matter how the little Alt-Right Nazis try to pretend to be bourgeoisie.
The EU elections have no 2nd round in France due to its nature.
The French like to flirt with Le Pen. But in the 2nd run-off, suddenly communists vote for conservatives, and conservatise for communists to avoid the Nazi.
@MsMissy @mastodonmigration @GottaLaff
The only "unexpected" thing was the high turnout, which made the opinion polling complicated (because the 2nd round suddenly allowed more than 2 candidates in ~300 cases). And how the media strictly wrote a pro-Le-Pen narrative.
When everyone interested a little bit in French politics know that for decades Le Pen had always a very bad 2nd round. That was literally the story when I was a kid, in the pre-Internet news.