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
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.
Against Rachida Dati? Hmmm, a rock would have been a better candidate IMO.
SO relieved though… 😅😅😅
Munich with their new major also had a win in this direction just now. I do think that local policies likely are more important anyway for at least traffic policies.
Oooh yeah París about to get quadruple pedestrianized. Bravo París, j’en suis fière
Moi, j’en suis jealoux!
Haha vous avez raison, salut d’Ontario
Hi from Georgia!
(LOL, bet you thought I was from Montreal or something, didn’t you? I’ve been learning French because I want to be in places that speak it, not because I’m from a place that speaks it.)
Hahaha oui c’est vrai, mais en fait le français est ma troisième langue aussi
bet you thought I was from Montreal or something
Because of the typo in jaloux ?
L’Amérique peut aussi élire des urbanistes ; regardez Seattle et Baltimore.
Georgia caucasus or Georgia i-got-you-on-my-mind?
On-my-mind.
Personally, I think we ought to call the other place Sakartvelo to end the confusion.
“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
Tankies are everywhere, especially here on Lemmy. Their main enemy is the center left, just as they always were. Remember that the German communists branded the social democrats as social fascists and considered them almost as bad the literal Nazis.
The guys who literally collaborated the nazis? No shit
Beside aren’t you one of them genocide influencer whining about everybody being “antisemite”?
He is, but that isn’t relevant right now. Smearing center left does not help the broader leftist project. It’s always “left unity” when it comes to anarchists and social democrats listening to authoritarian Marxists, but never the other way around. I consider “left unity” an authoritarian dog whistle at this point
Oh fuck off. French socialists have voted for every liberal bullshit for a decade. The pension reform?
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.
Thanks, that’s helpful.
Having seen traffic in Paris, I’d say it’s already anti-car.
I think I read that the pro-car candidate in second place there was wanting to change that. Edit: Oh, or do you mean that there’s still too much cars around that they all get stuck in traffic? Yeah I can imagine.
I used to hate paris but last time i was there it was quite pleasant. And quiet
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
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.
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”.
She probably just knew she was on shaky ground. I think she played that smart, it’s already pretty wild she got 2 terms seeing how mad some people were at her after the first one
I’m not sure if the people living in Paris were mad. It might be the people who commute that hated her anti-car politics.
On the other hand we are talking about a nation that wanted to put a highway interchange in the middle of Paris …
Lots of rich Parisians were and are still mad. Also taxis because closing some roads to motor vehicles hurt their little mafia
Since when are the socialists not the leftists?
At least as far as François Hollande’s presidency.
Since hollande the softie
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The socialists in France are center left social democrats. The actual lunatic tankie leftist socialists are the LFI, you can see at the bottom with 8% in the image.
Shut the fuck up. Unlike your beloved “socialists” at least they don’t have anybody in the eipstein files
Time to start the war on cars ☺️
Bouá
Yeah but he opposes antifascism so…
Great news, but I would love more Sophia Chikirou to win.
Félicitations, Paris !
Merde alors.
