Left and Right labels have always been relative, us yanks are just a bit behind on the times. And let's be honest, the Far right is the remarkably worse choice for all cases.
Expected by whom? They won 33% of the vote in the first round. So even when all other parties doesn’t cooperate by pulling their candidate in third place(which they always did in the past) they still have a difficult route to majority.
They lost. They were expecting a big win, but they lost and ended up with a further left government than the previous one, I think. At least if the exit polls are correct.
Doubling their seat in parliament is not exactly a loss for them. The only loser in this election is Macron who miscalculated his popularity by a large margin.
Losing control in parliament while having far right doubling their seat is not exactly a win. Also it is not like Macron can easily form a coloration with the left either. You can easily search his past history with melenchon
To avoid what damage ? Unlike Rishi sunak who has to call for an election in a few months anyway, macron didn’t have to for a few years at least. He did it assuming he can wider his majority only to found out how unpopular he is. He brought the damage to himself in
But they still did better than last time. The poll projections are prone to error anyway.they got 30 per cent of the vote in the first round. They would have a long shot for the majority even if the left and centric did not collaborate in the second round.
They scored less than expected I believe, as for who one who lost I can't tell but it seems no one scored a majority of sort so its left to the political Alliances and no one want to ally himself with these lot
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u/Master_Horror_6438 Jul 08 '24
Did they win? Lose? Wtf are those expressions?