Your favorite map of France
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How good is that party?
Depends on what you want. I'm always amused at Americans, who call Democrats 'communists', always cheer for European parties who are far to the left of Democrats on economic issues. Certainly, Le Pen's party is - she's even to the left of the Socialists (who are not really socialists but neoliberals).
Good on immigration, but Zemmour is still better.
yeah. Europe is going to have to do much, much, much better than Le Pen if they want to fix things. didn't she distance herself from afd because deporting 3rd world invaders was just too far?
No, she - wrongly - distanced herself from the AfD because the foreman said that not all members of the SS were war criminals. Which is true!
It's not as if the AfD was inviting SS members and giving them a standing ovation, like Trudeau. But it's a sensitive matter in France, as you might imagine.
Is this the election that got invalidated or the snap elections.
Neither. European parliament elections.
I'm an expert on European politics if you hadn't noticed
Macron just dissolved the parliament and asked for new elections. On top of that immigrants are "protesting" in the streets.
But is France, always someone protesting.
Lol, even the banlieues (Parisian ghetto suburbs) rejected the left and centre...
According to that map, literally every departement outside of the Paris city walls voted for National Rally, lololol...
No wonder the media here (i.e. the other side of the world) was finding every "queer leftist" they could, within Paris, to disparage the result and paint it as the second coming of Petainism...
If you zoom in a bit on the map, the pink spot is the city of Paris proper, with all the landmarks and some crime-ridden areas in the north - and the three other spots are some of the suburbs, with the one on top being the notorious Saint Denis suburb.
That said, I'll do you one better - the minority overseas territories voted for Le Pen in the past presidential election.
Oh yeah, you’re right. I massively overestimated the size of “Ile-de-France”, and assumed the three surrounding blue départements were Seine-et-Marne, etc, rather than the orange bits, as you point out…
Can’t actually see that without zooming in significantly…
But still, as you say, those places voted for NF, as did Lyon and Marseille, both of which have banlieues as well (and Calis, where most of the refugees end up eventually, for that matter), so…
It’s pretty significant.
Though as someone else said, if history shows anything, it’s that the Ile-de-France doesn’t really care what the rest of France thinks, politically. Seemingly they haven’t for roughly 200 years…
Actually, you had the right idea. Paris makes up a tiny part of the modern Ile de France.
True, it's been worst in the past 200 years, but they haven't cared for more than 1000 years! Some idiots have actually been destroying their own city as revenge for the outcome.
It's a funny social phenomenon how the people living deepest in shit always vote for more shit.
Land doesn't vote, chud. People do.
If there's one thing Asterix has taught us it's that the barbarian tribe living in that one tiny, microscopic bit of land always ends up winning in the end.
The funny thing is that in actual history, the microscopic bit of land actually conquered the rest of France. Story of the Capetian dynasty.
If Leftists were capable of being happy, they wouldn't be Leftists.
Maybe im wrong. But le pen is the socialist, but want strong borders, right?
Definitely on the left economically, but without the climate madness.
i know its dark but if the commies pull something.. i think russia/ukraine war needs to escalate. pretty much needs the shit to hit the fan for things to be shaken up.