Title edited, it was about Melenchon's great results in overseas territories initialy
Edit: https://twitter.com/CerfiaFR/status/1513238769218039824
At least Melenchon was first among the 18-34 age group
Edit: Fuuuuuuck Melanchon may finish within a point of Le Pen arghhhh
Well I'm not hoping for a possibility of similar results in mainland Franchise. Just for Melenchon to overtake LePen . For that him outperforming the polls in France by idk 3% could make that a real possibilitty. Numbers like these are neither needed not realistic yeah. But they are still good on their own and count for something.
He got 100k more votes from these three overseas territories than in 2017 which is still a 0.1something on the overall electorate
dont think Melenchon will get to run off, seems la pen and macron are around 24% and Melenchon around 19% from early exist polls
Those are just the raw results, and rural areas tend to get counted faster, so there's still sort of a chance (not a super high one, but a chance nonetheless), as reflected in the projections, which show Mélenchon just 0.8% behind Le Pen.
Fuck all those other French left parties. They basically purposefully allowed a fascist to make it to the runoff when it could have been a leftist. A fascist who also has way too high a chance of actually winning the runoff.
If Le Pen wins, it's their fault.
France would have just voted for Le Pen in the 2nd round anyway :france-cool:
Apparently a large contingent of 18-24yr old voters support Le Pen in France. Is this true, and what are the causes behind this? Someone was floating around the idea that Le Pen is just floating around stuff lifted from French Communist phamplets from decades ago just to cynically get younger voters on her side. Wondering how true all that is
Large as in around the high 10s yeah. But Melenchon + the other left parties and candidate are at 40%+ in that age group
It's true, Le Pen's support very much skews younger than Macron's, and the cause is the continuing crisis of neoliberalism where something, anything has to be better than more of the same
Fascism is the "le epic narwhal bacon" ideology.
Most young normies will go flat out black sun nazi.
More materially speaking: Their lives probably suck, and they gave the wrong answer to the One Big Question. Barbarism it is!
lol new projection Macron 27.6%, La Pen 23%, Melenchon 22.2%
https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1513256944575913989
:doomjak:
Why is the French left like this? Melenchon is going to end up within less than 1% of Le Pen isn't he?
if he really ends up losing on such a slim margin PCF is gonna need a big fucking reckoning for this kind of colossal fuck up
Le Pen getting 2% less and Mélenchon getting 2% more due to less vote splitting was always a dim possibility, which is vindicated by these results.
Hell the gap seems to close even more with the newer exit polls. It may end up being smth like: Le Pen 23.5-Melenchon 21.5
This was a winnable election, PCF fucked up, socdems fucked up as usual, LFI probably could have campaigned harder. Oh well.
Don't get me wrong, it's a nice bit of hopium to see Melenchon go from niche to pretty high up, especially with:
a. The international left having an almost nonexistent leadership.
b. A scattered French left.
c. Being in the imperial core
4 exit polls have shown Melenchon 3rd, ~3-4point behind 2nd place Le Pen :deeper-sadness:
This wouldn't be unexpected at all but as far as I have seen these are all "exit" polls of foreign media and of dubious accuracy/methothodlogy . Official French exit polls only are allowed to be from around 15 minutes from now I think
Le Pen is leading first round, wtf. https://www.resultats-elections.interieur.gouv.fr/presidentielle-2022/FE.html
She's capturing the outsider vote and the reactionary vote, which just happens to make up the plurality of French voters.
:kim-jong-il: you're not gonna give me hope, colonies voting in their self interest isn't gonna indicate nothing for the exploiters' vote
