Euro Elections 2024

Welcome to HELL Europe! Can’t believe they looked at us and thought “we would like some of that.”
 
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Don't know about the rest of Europe but the turnout here was 39.73% (last Euroelections was 58,69%).
People gave the finger to the existing system and voted to spend the day at the beach.
Which I did too.
 
The calculation may be that people won't vote the same way or that his support will show up...it's a potentially ruinous strategy tho'.
 
ARRAY OF THEORIES:

- He might be doing it in a sort of "get it out of your system now, vote not fash when it's a serious election again" way

- The bitch is just addicted to drama

- "imo Macron is doing it because he doesn't like that the twink National Rally leader is getting more attention than him. Classic gay man behaviour"

- "You know how old queens get when their looks start to go"
 
Does this mean Le Pen as president? :gross:
 
Soldi said:
Does this mean Le Pen as president? :gross:
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It’s a parliamentary election, not presidential.

Fwiw I think Macron is expecting a bit of a vibe shift following the UK election. The second round of voting is the Sunday after our polling day.
 
Penelope said:
Prime Minister possibly
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Jordan Bardella would be PM if National Rally win. The leadership is, let’s say, eccentric, and generally considered incompetent. Macron’s bet is either, a) it acts as a call to arms against the far right and he gets his pick of PM, or b) the RN get in and become massively unpopular in government, leading to a clear run for him in the 2027 presidential election
 
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How do two round parliamentary elections work please?

Bonus question: is it just the French that do it and if so, why are the French so French please?
 
Marina Salty said:
@Dark Carnival to explain and apologize
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Ha! I never claimed this cunt and have always said it, centrists are fascist enablers :)

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Poland also looking likely to have voted for the centrists over the populist PiS
 
ZenGiraffe said:
How do two round parliamentary elections work please?

Bonus question: is it just the French that do it and if so, why are the French so French please?
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The parliament consists of single member constituencies like us. If a member gets an absolute majority in the first round they are directly elected. If not it goes to a run off with the second placed candidate (sometimes more if the third placed gets a significant proportion), then it’s a simple winner takes all.
 
gggggg said:
The parliament consists of single member constituencies like us. If a member gets an absolute majority in the first round they are directly elected. If not it goes to a run off with the second placed candidate (sometimes more if the third placed gets a significant proportion), then it’s a simple winner takes all.
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And why is this nonsense preferable to ranked choice please?
 
Hungary and Slovakia, the two most problematic for the EU governments currently, will both be interesting - Hungary has a new opposition party that actually seems to have a lot of support, and initial reports are that the progressives have topped the polls in Slovakia (despite Fico’s shooting)
 
ZenGiraffe said:
How do two round parliamentary elections work please?

Bonus question: is it just the French that do it and if so, why are the French so French please?
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First round: multiple candidates
Second round: usually top two from the first round or however many candidates that got at least 12.5% of registered voters.
 
Dark Carnival said:
First round: multiple candidates
Second round: usually top two from the first round or however many candidates that got at least 12.5% of registered voters.
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This system usually allows to block far right candidates in the second round. Unless it’s far right vs left in which case centrists don’t call their voters to back the left, because ‘the far right and the left are as bad are each other’ :eyes:
 
ZenGiraffe said:
And why is this nonsense preferable to ranked choice please?
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It’s just the way they decide to do it. It does offer some breathing room by having an extended election process, and the opportunity for the electorate to get whatever protest out of their system in the first round.

It’s the preferential voting system across South America, and Croatia, Finland, Poland and Portugal have similar systems in Europe.
 
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