International Politics

[steviewevie]

big wtf moment, Macron dissolving parliament. Snap election? Le Pen presidency?!

[steviewevie]

German AfD support. Older voters less keen.

[steviewevie]

21 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

big wtf moment, Macron dissolving parliament. Snap election? Le Pen presidency?!

These are parliamentary elections, not presidential. Still, massive gamble.

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Young people switching from green to far right.

[Neil]

1 hour ago, steviewevie said:

big wtf moment, Macron dissolving parliament. Snap election? Le Pen presidency?!

it'll be what the french want they've never seemed sure about macron and his reforms.

[charlierc]

1 hour ago, steviewevie said:

big wtf moment, Macron dissolving parliament. Snap election? Le Pen presidency?!

Macron himself has not resigned, which is what would be the trigger for a snap Presidential election. He's there until 2027.

 

Presumably he's hoping to repeat last year in Spain where their left-leaning Prime Minister won snap elections called after his party got a kicking in the locals. But I suspect the quite anti-Macron vibe in France is going to backfire on this attempt.

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Ben Gvir want to replace Gantz in the war cabinet. 

[Neil]

1 minute ago, steviewevie said:

Ben Gvir want to replace Gantz in the war cabinet. 

whoever it is, they won't be any nicer.

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Belgian PM resigned

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Far right have done well, but not everywhere like Scandinavia...and centre right still the majority in EU. Greens and Liberals have done pretty badly.

[lost]

Germany lowering the voting age to 16 thinking they’d all vote green and they’ve gone afd.. maybe a lesson there

[steviewevie]

56 minutes ago, lost said:

Germany lowering the voting age to 16 thinking they’d all vote green and they’ve gone afd.. maybe a lesson there

Maybe need to raise it to 24.

[steviewevie]

actually looks like it is only older voters who aren't voting far right...maybe some muscle memory.

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Macron hoping the centre and left will work together to fight off the far right...good luck with that.

[steviewevie]

actually more to do with Geography than age

 

[charlierc]

19 hours ago, steviewevie said:

That's an... offputting colour.

[charlierc]

8 hours ago, steviewevie said:

Macron hoping the centre and left will work together to fight off the far right...good luck with that.

Worked for his two Presidential elections tbf. Plus France elects it's MPs like the President with the run-off system if nobody gets 50%.

 

Whether that'll work here is another matter, given Macron seems to be very unpopular.

[charlierc]

9 hours ago, steviewevie said:

Far right have done well, but not everywhere like Scandinavia...and centre right still the majority in EU. Greens and Liberals have done pretty badly.

I thought this would go more to the far-right than it did ngl. France, Italy and Austria was where they did very well, but in some areas like Spain, Portugal and Scandinavia, they seemed to just fizzle out. Netherlands too, which was somewhat unexpected given a far-right party won their election last year and thanks to convoluted coalition negotiations haven't even had a change to f**k up just yet.

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Just need Israel and Hamas to agree now...etc forever...

 

[Nobody Interesting]

Just now, steviewevie said:

Just need Israel and Hamas to agree now...etc forever...

 

 

Given Israel rejected the proposal a couple of hours after it came out I doubt they will agree it now just cos the UN has backed it (and the USA is trying to blame Hamas)

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[steviewevie]

5 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

 

Given Israel rejected the proposal a couple of hours after it came out I doubt they will agree it now just cos the UN has backed it (and the USA is trying to blame Hamas)

not sure how decision making is done by Hamas, but for Israel and Netanyahu any peace deal seems to be restricted by Ben Gvir and Smotrich threatening to pull their parties out of the coalition govt which would mean another election and the likely fall and maybe even arrest of Netanyahu. 

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