I’m wondering if the 2027 French presidential election might turn out like the 2024 US presidential election did.
What I mean is: what if left-wing voters refuse to back the moderate (Edouard Philippe in France, Kamala Harris in the US), which just helps the far-right candidate to win (Le Pen in France, Trump in the US)?
Melenchon is liked by the left in France, but the polls show he fares much worse against Le Pen than Philippe does. If the second round is Melenchon vs Le Pen, then Le Pen’s victory becomes more likely.
so why aren’t the centrist voting left ? they’re really just embarrassed rightwing voters.
that aside, fuck Melenchon and his anti Ukraine, pro Russie stance.
The “centrists” are probably going to vote glucksmann, royal, or whoever is the “feel good” gauche-bobo candidate this time around.
Let’s not call the government throwing grenades at high-schoolers “centrist”.
Yeah, ‘leftist’ Politicians that have this kind of stance infuriate me to no end.
If you’re anti Ukraine and pro Russian you’re not Anti-fascist. And if you’re not Anti-fascist, are you truly on the left?
If the problem is anti-americanism, I can understand that, but the solution to that is supporting Ukraine even more, so they don’t have to depend on the US.
I understand your stance but to say Mélanchon is anti-ukraine is somewhat reductive. He is anti anti escalation and promotes dialogue and is fenerally non-alignement. Now with that being said I know dialogue with Russia is a big lol. I know who I am voting for next election but as I said before I am very pro ukraine and I have given financial support to their struggle. I am with LFI and I strongly oppose any anti-ukraine or pro russian argument within the party.
Maybe actually I’m making a mistake by comparing the French election with the 2024 US election because of the different voting systems.
I suppose leftist voters in France might think “if we can get Melenchon into the second round then moderates will have to vote for him to keep out Le Pen”. So then the second round polling between Melenchon and Le Pen might change when the reality sets in that Melenchon and Le Pen are the only two options. Which is different to the single-round US presidential election, where the only two realistic candidates to win were Trump and Harris. In that US election, every anti-Trump non-voter just helped Trump.
As for Melenchon being anti-Ukraine, I don’t know his stance in detail, but like you, I’m not in favour of anti-Ukraine stances.
JML is not “anti-Ukraine” but is clearly not fond of the status quo. Don’t forget to check the instance of the people commenting, it usually says a lot about their own biases