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France's Macron dissolves parliament, calls new elections (www.dw.com)
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[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

The top two candidates may be quite polarising for example, whereas a 3rd candidate might be acceptable to all. Or there could be a large group of quite mediocre candidates.

It's not bad way per sé, but it's basically a band-aid around FPTP, instead of fixing the problem properly.

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