French Legislative Election 2017

[MaxQue]

Hamon supports PCF candidate against Valls. He also supports PCF/EELV candidates against various PS candidates (El-Khomri for example).

So a former PS presidential candidate who wants to defeat PS candidates, shouldn't he be excluded from PS?

Valls is not a PS candidate, in any case.

[MaxQue]

I just noticed that in the latest Opinion Way Poll the left wing parties (LO, NPA, PCF, FI, ECO, EELV, PS, PRG, DVG) have 29% combined, as much as the centrist EM/MoDem. It's kinda stupid that they for one reason or the other don't work with each other to push for the common left course.

LO refuses to compromise with bourgeois parties.
NPA is nothing these days.
There is some EELV, PCF, left-wing of the PS in some areas. Main issue is than the right-wing of the party prefers Macron to the PCF and so, are totally fine with division.
FI wants a common left, at long it's dominating it.
PRG is part of the Macron block.
ECO is mainly right-wingers or the Lalanne personality cult.
DVG is mostly people with bad relationships with a party, locally (or left-wingers who failed to get the EM investiture)

[MaxQue]

No, due to low turnout all of them go to a runoff.
In the 8th LREM will probably win thanks to left-wing voters.
In the 9th the candidate who arrived on top lost the LREM nomination but still campaign with the LREM logo, with the photo of Macron, etc.

Thankfully, LREM will win in the 8th. Habib is a wierd case. He is not hiding he considers himself the Likud representative in the French Assembly, he has very low interest in French affairs and totally ignore the other half of his constituency (Israel and Southern Europe).

[MaxQue]

Yeah funny that during the presidential campaign one of the main argument against Macron was that he could not have a majority in the Assembly, now they warn about "one party system"

One of the reasons I could bring myself to voting for FBM in the runoff was because I thought he probably wouldn't get an absolute majority.

And now you have the joy of having (or not) to choose between Lescure or Lefebvre.

[MaxQue]

Valls now officially won 50.3-49.7. Turnout only 36.6% in his district.

Yes !!

We have reports than he actually lost but than the mayorship of Corbeil-Essonne tampered with results.

[MaxQue]

There was a recount, which found around 150 votes for Valls.

FI candidate, or anyone from its campaign, were not allowed to witness the recount, in violation of electoral laws (which allow everyone to attend a count).

[MaxQue]

Valls now officially won 50.3-49.7. Turnout only 36.6% in his district.

Yes !!

We have reports than he actually lost but than the mayorship of Corbeil-Essonne tampered with results.

Reports from whom?

The losing candidate AND camera crews (they were very obviously denied entry in the recount room).

[MaxQue]

He also once, off record, while showing a camera crew round a street market in a diverse part of Evry commented "get me some whites in here" to avoid giving the impression that the town was completely devoid of white people.

Not too diverse then...

Well, Évry is a dump. No wonder everyone who can leave does.

[MaxQue]

I'm surprised there's any genuine enthusiasm for Valls even on this forum. I'd have thought trashy amoral fat cats like jaichind would prefer to take their neoliberalism straight, rather than adulterated with the icky trappings of softcore post-social-democracy.

We do, but we take what we can get (we're fat cats after all).

I doubt you are, unless you prefer dictatorship to democracy due to being more efficient, like him (along other wierd views nobody else here, either from the left or the right, ever approved of).

[MaxQue]

Parliamentary groups have been finalised; The UDI-Constructifs group has 38 members. The PC has formed the Democratic and Republican Left group with Martinician, Réunionese, and Guianese deputies.

Is there a reason why MoDem has its own group and not part of REM's group? Also, does anyone know if the EELV deputy joined the Socialist group or is a non-inscrite?

Well, MoDem is its own party, why would they go in the same group? Anyways, I don't think there was ever unique majority group (2002-2012 had UMP and UDF, 1997-2002 had PS, PCF and a PRG-MRC-Green one).

[MaxQue]

The PCF used their usual group name, GDR. Seems the PS decided to call their group "New Left".