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Originally Posted by activeStick
This sounds a lot like Trump in 2020, no? Has anyone been following this closely?
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The French system is weird and I don't think it's really like Trump.
Macron actually lost to a far right party, but they have a 2nd round of voting and scrambled together a coalition to win all the 2nd round votes for left leaning parties.
A lot of "I'll step out of the way this round so we don't split votes" to keep the far right out.
That worked and the lefts won the election (minority government) but now have to appoint a leader since it's a coalition quickly formed to stop the right and didn't have a clear leader going into the election.
It's not like a formed left party and leader won the election (like the NDP in Canada for example)
Someone more knowledgeable than me can clarify how this all works and where I'm wrong here.