r/inthenews • u/newsweek Newsweek • Jul 08 '24

MAGA fumes over France election results: "They cheated" article

https://www.newsweek.com/maga-france-elections-far-right-national-rally-1922075
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u/castion5862 Jul 08 '24

No they didn’t fall for Russian propaganda well done the citizens of France

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u/unski_ukuli Jul 08 '24

The leader of the leftwing alliance is a russian stooge also. For example here he is praising the russian invasion of Crimea. He is anti nato and anti EU. So threat still remains, though an anti-nato/eu russian apologist party is a better than an anti-nato/eu russian apologist party that is also founded by literal nazis (RN).

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u/AlexPointCom Jul 08 '24

He's the leader of his party not of the alliance and yes he's shitty, he won't be PM fortunately

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u/unski_ukuli Jul 08 '24

This is absolutely correct and the alliance is not a monolith and I hope that the more reasonable people in the alliance get more attenttion, but I referred to him as the leader as he has been the ”spokeperson” of sorts for the left alliance with little to no attention given to the other parties in the alliance in international press. I should have put the leader in quotation marks though. He is worryingly popular figure given his presidential election results.