French Legislative Election 2017

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I remember when EM was first announced, it was "a movement, not a political party." Is that still the case or has it transitioned into being a formal party? Is there even a legal difference, if so, what is it?

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So when is the actual deadline when we will officially know candidates?

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Who is the LREM candidate in Vall's district? Is it a total nobody?

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Ok.  So it seems that for Valls seat, REM has rejected Valls as REM candidate but will not run a candidate against him versus just not nominating a candidate today.

Why is Valls different from all the other PS candidates they nominated?

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In all seriously, LRM is the acronym I'm seeing most in the press.

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I hope Hamon rebuilds the party, he is a good politician & a decent person & more preferable to Melenchon!

I hope so too, but what Mélenchon is doing is to make sure that this rebuilding never happens. He wants to kill the PS outright and leave no room for any political force between him and FBM. This is, again, the best way to ensure that the French left remains irrelevant.

A space between Macron and Melenchon is just a Muslim vote bank.

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Get the f**k out of this thread you dumbass.

Lol, sorry, but I really would like to see EM's success replicated elsewhere, particularly in the UK. Plus, Corbyn really could become PM soon enough, and I think it'd be a disaster.

"Flawless, beautiful" to a tyranny-of-the-centre fault.  That is, boring as f**k.  The only un-boring thing being the plethora of first-round knockouts for sitting parliamentarians (incl. Hamon).

Maybe you do, but I don't mind politics being boring at all.

The think is, Britain was led by Flawless Beautiful Centrists from 1997-2007 and from 2010-2016. In case you hadn't noticed,  on both occasions it ended in a complete disaster.

Didn't like all recent premierships end in disaster in the UK? 2007-2010 and 2016-(hopefully 2017) probably won't be rememebered well either.

Well arguably Brown and May were both just doing a bad job of mopping up after the disasters cause by their predecessors (although that is probably quite a kind way of looking at both of them).

Alternatively, the UK has become the Weimar Germany of the 21st century

All of Europe is really Weimar Germany at this point.

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Are all the run-offs top 3 or do you have to win a certain amount to make it to the run-off?

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Didn't Valls say something pretty racist a few years back?

He was in some immigrant ghetto and the government official showing him around said "there are people from 500 different countries in this neighborhood! Isn't that great!" and he replied "would be nice if one of those countries was France".

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Marine Le Pen elected and the FN's two incumbent MPs, Gilbert Collard and Jacques Bompard, re-elected.

Anything interesting about the other 5 FN members who got elected? Or are they just randos?

Florian Fillippot, the only other big name FNer, lost to a REM candidate.

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Unsubmissive France did quite well in Seine-Saint-Denis. Of course, they did quite well there in the presidential election as well but I figured that was just for lack of other realistic left candidates. Do Muslims actually like Melenchon despite his assimilationist positions or is FI just getting the votes of all non-Muslims? Who were they fighting against in most of the Seine-Saint-Denis run-offs?

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Maybe a 8th parliamentary group, some DVG want to create a progressive group on the left, in support of the presidential majority. For now they don't have the required 15 deputies.

Do we know who the MPs are? I assume Valls and who else?

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Who is the one remaining Chevenementist MP caucusing with?