Thought I would do a quick over view of French politics and the current elections because of the riots in France. We'll start with the 4 main political parties and then investigate their voter base.
Le pen/far right. This party is economic left, socially far right. Le Pen herself has moderated the party but there exists many petainists and identitarians still in the party. Supporters: ethnic french working class. Ethnic French voters under 30. Rural French.
Melenchon. The far left, second most popular party. Used to be economic left and have the working class. It's completely lost the labour movement/traditional left to the far right. It's now made up of a coalition between mobilized African and Muslim blocs .African French are voting for the far left. The environmental crazies/population of brittany(celtic ethnic group, whitest region of France, yet votes overwhelmingly for the left unlike the rest of rural france) and the third group is antifa style extreme wokeists. Melenchon demands "a new France" of immigrants, literally compulsory micegenation, and a geopolitical turn away from Europe and focused on integrating France with Africa, and eventually the creation of a "EurAfrican zone" that will have open borders and economic integration between Europe and France. He believes the ethnic french have a duty to pay for this, shut the hell up if they don't like it, and micegenate. And has said if the french fail to micegenate the government must use compulsory methods.supporters: Bretons, Africans,antifa, university kids
Next is Macron, the bankers candidate, candidate for wealthy parisian ruling class. Paris/isle de France has more then 20% of Frances population. It's 70% african/Muslim. The Africans vote Melanchon, the wealthy Whites vote Macron.Macron is an absolute centrist and does whatever the wealthy elites and corporations want. Extremely unpopular.Macron came in 3rd place in the first round. So the second round will be between Le Pen and Melenchon.Macron is telling supporters to vote for Melanchon. Supporters: french over 65, wealthy Parisians
Finally 4th place is the Republicans, they are the center-right De Gaulist party. They came in 4th place, the leader advocated an electoral alliance between the Republicans and Le Pen to try and win the second round and form a rightist coalition. This would be the first time any party agreed to work with Le Pen. However he was kicked out of the party the following day.supporters: centrists, moderates, upper middle class rural French between 30-65
Results Le Pen 33.2%
Melenchon 28%
Macron 20%
Republicans 7%
Other 7%
The biggest divides in French politics are, Rural vs Paris,rich Paris vs African Paris, rich vs rural working class, ethnic French vs African immigrants, old vs young, economic left vs progressive woke left, and economic right vs social right
Paris is divided between ultra wealthy DC suburbs style elites and the 70% African muslims. Macrons party membership is 2/3 parisians, and his base of support largely is the wealthy and people over 65.
The rural population of France strongly votes far right. Because there is a huge cultural gap between Paris and the rest of the
country.paris is African, or extremely wealthy elites.The ethnic French youth votes far right, either le pen or zemmour.
The age gap situation in france mimics the rest of the continent where people 16-30 are strongly turning right, and the Olds support centrists of some sort or another.
The other glaring issue is the complete abandonment of the labour movement, the working class, and economic leftism by the left, in favor of migrants, cultural marxism,critical race theory, gender ideology and every other wacky ideology that has originated in American university campuses. While the main issues for cold war era leftists have become the purview of the far right, and many traditional leftists have actually become far right candidates.
