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The leader of France's Republicans party has said he would be open to an alliance with Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally in snap French elections. Such an alliance would break a decades-old taboo.

Eric Ciotti, the head of the conservative French political party Les Republicans (LR), astounded political observers Tuesday by suggesting it was time to drop the longstanding taboo against working with the country's far-right National Rally (NR) party in hopes of taking power in snap elections called by centrist President Emmanuel Macron in the wake of Sunday's European parliamentary elections.

Speaking on TF1 TV, Ciotti said: "We say the same things, so let's stop making up imagined opposition. This is what the vast majority of our voters want. They're telling us, 'reach a deal."

In response, several of Ciotti's fellow party members spoke out against allowing former NR President Marine Le Pen anywhere near the levers of power.

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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Who knew hatred of brown folk could be such a unifying force across the world?

[-] joneskind@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

The worst is that a lot of brown people voted for them. Because they managed to shift their image into something more acceptable just by not being overtly racist. Brown people have some hate to give too. Hate toward queer people, feminists and muslims has no color.

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 5 months ago

The poorly educated are easier to scare and control

[-] joneskind@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Education is almost free in France. But your school is assigned based on the location you live. So poor people go to school with poor people, and best teachers go to best schools, which are rarely in poor areas.

When I was younger we've had one the best schools in the world, and teachers were still invested with the "Égalité" part of our national motto. Then conservative governments proceeded to destroy our education system, and here we are.

[-] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 months ago

I'm back home visiting Canada right now, and seeing this too. Children of immigrants/2nd gen immigrants using the same talking points as fascists about how there's too many immigrants being let in, or not "the right kind".

Astounding how they don't understand the cognitive dissonance of that.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago
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