French Legislative Election 2017

[Beet]

Can't PS just dissolve and fold into FG/FI?

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Macron and Mélenchon are both unacceptable.

Why is Melenchon unacceptable?

I always liked Melenchon more than Hamon, to be honest.

Why?

Now that the presidential election is over, I will answer. It is because both Melenchon and Hamon run as anti-neoliberal candidates, but only Melenchon has the backbone to call Merkel's bluff on the EU. Running a non-neoliberal economy policy in the Eurozone is fundamentally contradictory and unsustainable. We saw this during the Euro crisis 2009-12. As soon as any nation strays too far from orthodoxy, the bond markets will slap you back. Thus, Hamon would have been doomed to failure and unpopularity. Melenchon might have as well, but he would at least have had a chance. Hamon would have had no chance.

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Ugh Mélenchon needs to f**k off. What a piece of sh*t. I'd honestly vote for the LREM guy over him in that constituency if that's the choice.

Really? Given that Macron's cabinet makes it look like he intends to govern as a more socially liberal version of LR, I would have thought it was crucial to put as many left-wingers in parliament as remotely possible.

The French left will never be able to rebuild as long as Mélenchon has any influence within it, because all Mélenchon wants is to destroy any left-wing force that isn't his own personality cult. He doesn't care about actually changing people's lives. He's happy to stay in the opposition forever, as long as it gives him the role of a hero. He's a self-serving megalomaniac clown and the left-wing opposition to FBM deserves better.

Sounds more like Corbyn. Melenchon actually came within a hair's breadth of the runoff, had Hamon dropped out, it would've happened. Do you have any other beef with Melenchon besides his supposed opposition fetishism?

[Beet]

The left's performance was so pathetic. Socialists should have just folded into FI.

[Beet]

The left's performance was so pathetic. Socialists should have just folded into FI.

and if they don't like putin-tolerating euro-sceptic egomaniacs?

Then they have flawless beautiful Macron

Pretty much this. The left is so divided, they needed to come together. Only question is if they even get another chance.