French Legislative Election 2017

[rob in cal]

  If the legislatives could be delayed a few months I wonder if Macron's honeymoon period would be over and EM wouldn't do as well.

[rob in cal]

   Does the Republicains platform still call for the various national referenda that Fillon wanted?

[rob in cal]

  Oh right, but in terms of the policies they would be about like immigration and government reform does the new platform include them?

[rob in cal]

   In a nutshell why do so many posters on this board not like Valls?

[rob in cal]

    So it looks like there will be many seats where after the 1st round we might have a REM, Republican, a FN and a left candidate all making the 2nd round. In such circumstances what kind of stand down agreements are likely, if at all.

[rob in cal]

    So it looks like LRM will win a majority of seats with much less than a majority of 1st round votes. Nothing new here I realize, but I wonder what the minimum threshold of nationwide votes it needs to win a bare majority. With such a splintering of the electorate the French single member district winner take all with runoffs might just yield a new low in disproportional results.  Here's hoping the Fabulous Beautiful One will deliver on his election reform promise.

[rob in cal]

   Is there a list of seats with the highest % of Moslem voters? I'm guessing most are on the outskirts of the bigger cities but wonder if there is a handy list. Intresting to see how the Beautiful One's candidates will do in them.

[rob in cal]

   The real question is, what % of total seats will be won by the 67% of the electorate who did not vote for FBM candidates in the first round.  What a contrast the final results will be in terms of seats vs the French European Parliament delegation which is elected by PR.