#french news
In France, our president was qualified for the second turn of the elections, along with a far right candidate
Emmanuel Macron has implemented during his 5 years as a president terrible policies that only impoverished the working class and ruined our school system
His policies are definitely right-wing despite him claiming he’s on the “center”
If he’s reelected, his policies will be even worse, such as enabling people to work since the age of 12, making people forced to work if they want to get RSA (which is the money that the state gives to someone who doesn’t work, and therefore the RSA would be their salary while it’s below the minimum wage and a lot of disabled people who can’t work live off of this) or making university more expensive.
The problem is that the other candidate who’s in the second turn is Marine LePen, the daughter of a fucking fascist who took over his party and now has the same far right politics. Economically speaking, she’s just like Macron but with discriminatory policies towards immigrants.
So what I’m trying to say is: we’re fucked. The candidate in the third place, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is a leftist candidate with a very detailed program and who was our best hope on the left. He was only a few points away from the second turn, because some leftists decided to vote for smaller candidates instead.
Now, I’m a revolutionary, so I don’t think voting is what will really save us anyway. But what I know for sure is that the next 5 years in France will be terrible and that we’ll need to protest a lot. And since Macron (who’ll most likely be reelected) uses the police to repress protesters, police brutality will only rise. I’m really scared.
Tonight, at approximately 11 PM, the gap between Marine Lepen (far right candidate, who is qualified for the second round) and Jean-Luc Mélenchon (far left candidate, who ended up in third position) is ONLY up to 0.8%.
Less than 1%.
It was so close.
Knowing that we could have won this battle is making it so much worst. I’m bitter. I’m angry. I’m sad. I’m devastated. I’m disgusted.
But most of all, I’m terribly worried about the future in my country.
