This is huge
The right-wing candidate who said "stop the war on cars" was defeated.
The leftist who said "My goal is to make sure Grégoire loses" was defeated
Yeah but he opposes antifascism so.....
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HOORAY! (Not a Frenchman, just someone who likes alternatives to cars anywhere)
Sounds like something a Frenchman would say....
My take is that billionaires and large companies don't put as much money (proportionally) in municipal elections as they do in country elections. When real people vote, you get Gregoire or Mamdani.
It's wayyyy too close either way.
A ten percent lead city wide in these conditions is still considered a spanking.
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Oooh yeah París about to get quadruple pedestrianized. Bravo París, j'en suis fière
"The leftist who said "My goal is to make sure Grégoire loses" was defeated"
why do we have these
there's another way to phrase "I am going to lose and I want Greg to lose and Donklus is the only other person running"
glad she didn't "save Palestine" though gj to the percent of Paris that did the not dumb thing
In Italy is the same and it's one of the reasons we're getting fascists elected everywhere
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Does anybody know if the 38.5% who abstained were people who went to the polls and checked a box to abstain, or if they're just counting the number of eligible voters vs. the number of votes cast?
Abstention is people registered on the voters list that didn't turn up to vote. Blanc are people that turn up to cast a null vote.
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Having seen traffic in Paris, I'd say it's already anti-car.
not anti-car, but pro-humans.
carbrainers like to shout that you need stroads everywhere and to kick kids from bikes
but, if you want fewer traffic jams, a calmer driving experience, you NEED high-quality public transit, separated bicycle lanes, etc. everywhere.
I was more joking about how Parisians drive, which is also decidedly anti human
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Good for the anticar part but french socialists are on par with the UK labour. A bunch of corrupted genocidal idiots
Yes, unironically this is to the benefit of fascists and the ruling class. Neo-liberals adopting the aesthetics of leftist parties do not address the material underlying conditions which push people towards more extremist ideology, so by the time the next election rolls around, people feel like the left "betrayed" them and vote for the far-right, despite the fact that they never elected an actual leftist in the first place.
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Wasn't Hidalgo super pro bike and peds? Was there a term limit or did she lose election to him?
She said in 24 she wouldn't seek a third, I couldn't find a reason besides vaguely implying "out of respect to the Parisians".
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