• Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    4 months ago

    I don’t understand what macron was thinking. If they got this result 3 weeks ago, rushing new elections with no time for an extended electoral campaign was going to get the same results, no?

    • franglais@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      He’s been drunk with power since he was elected, and it’s only gotten worse as his mandate has borne out.

    • unautrenom@jlai.lu
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      4 months ago

      From what I understand, he was hoping for :

      1. Destroy the incoming alliance between our two Far Rights parties (that worked)
      2. That the trad right party would implode (that worked)
      3. That the left would self-combust like always (that did NOT happen)

      And that he would thus be the ‘only credible choice’ against Far Right. (Note that in the last legislative elections, he was NOT given a majority in the National assembly so that he’d have to negotiate with other parties, which he refused to do anyway, except maybe with the small trad right wing party).

      Obviously, that didn’t work out. As other in the French subs have pointed out, he’s an ex-banker. He’s used to making risky bets. But now’s first time where he has to assume the consequence if he looses it.

    • WanderingVentra@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      It boggles the mind honestly. So many people I’ve talked to are wondering what he was thinking, too. Was it just a delay tactic to hope for a miracle? Some sort of deus ex machina?