The France Thread: oui oui, bonbons and all that bad stuff 🇫🇷

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DrBanneker said:
I guess the right wing version of gilet jaunes will pop off?
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@Liu Kang would know better but looking at vaccination rates and looks like vast majority of adult pop is vaccinated, so small minority of dissenters.

Interesting that Melenchon is among the loudest dissenters though, in North America debate is very much framed around right to left lines.
 
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thatrapsfan said:
@Liu Kang would know better but looking at vaccination rates and looks like vast majority of adult pop is vaccinated, so small minority of dissenters.

Interesting that Melenchon is among the loudest dissenters though, in North America debate is very much framed around right to left lines.
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There is indeed a good amount of people that are vaxxed but we are plateauing and Macron's strategy is to make the sanitary pass to be a vax pass. Before you had to have a negative test, a previous infection or a vax to get the pass to go to restaurants, movies etc. Now the pass will only be valid if you're vaxxed.

Im not surprised by Melenchon's position. He's not against the vax but against some kind of goverment overreach I'd say. And he's in campaign so he'll fire at Macron about everything. Also The left is currently being brutalized and may get its worse score ever so they need to find a way to exist too.

Ive read that all left parties would account for less than 30% lol. Like there are 8 candidates (Hidalgo less than 5%, the greens around 8, Melechon at 9, the communists at 3 etc.) Shambolic:mjlol: And they dont want to unite to get a chance at round 2. Current runner up would be either Pecresse or Le Pen (depending) around 17/18% as Macron has been steady around 25.

Anyway, the antivax sentiment also exists in France and it's often (not always) a urban/rural divide. But a fatigue starts to appear with some vaxxed people who are starting to get fed up with restrictions but I guess it's the same everywhere.

Regarding his quote, unvaxxed people are not voting for him anyway so he doesnt care about pissing them off.
 
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So you guys might not know but for the presidential election, a candidate needs to be vouched by at least 500 mayors. There are 35k mayors and the cut off period to get those vouchers are usually something like a month from the election.

This year, the deadline is March 4th which is next Friday. But for a voucher to be certified, there are some rules that makes things complicated :
- a candidate needs mayors from at least 30 differents departments (sub regions) out of our 101 ones.
- a candidate cannot have more than 10% of vouchers from the same department

So usually candidates submit more than 500 vouchers to be sure that they have at least 500 certified ones ultimately

Currently, only 7 candidates are certified and Le Pen or Melenchon still need some. Mélenchon is at 442 and Le Pen at 393. They will most likely get in as usually those who lack vouchers get a huge bump in the final week bit it could more spicy for Zemmour who is at 350 right now. I think he may not pass the cut :mjgrin:

Les parrainages validés par candidat - Conseil constitutionnel présidentielle 2022
 
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