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French parliament elections: Left projected to win most seats, ahead of Macron's coalition and far right (www.lemonde.fr)

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 78 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Check out this hot take from Politico:

Their initial aim was to stop Le Pen’s party winning an outright majority, which seemed a likely outcome a week ago. It seems instead their efforts may have handed the initiative to the other extreme of French politics, the far-left.

Mélenchon said the New Popular Front would want to implement its manifesto, including revoking Macron’s controversial pensions reforms and introducing big hikes in the minimum wage.

The extremism is horrifying!

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Disappointing from Politico, I thought they had a good read on politics but it seems they're incompetent enough to not be able to understand the french political landscape: the far left is mostly composed of NPA and LO who are trying to gain power through revolution, not the classic socdem parties playing by the elections rules

Edit : wow thanks for the context, friends, didn't know they had changed owners

[–] HaiZhung@feddit.org 40 points 1 month ago

Politico is owned by Axel Springer, who publishes the BILD yellow paper in Germany.

I would not expect anything from them TBH.

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Politico was bought years ago by German Axel Springer SE, the producers of trash like BILD and WELT (also a short-lived BILD TV that was designed as a best-of between RT and Fox News). They don't have a clue about french politics, just like they don't have a clue about anything else. All they got is a right-wing desinformation agenda.

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.org 12 points 1 month ago

politico is owned by Axel Springer and should therefore not be taken seriously.

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