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1. 

   @TLDRnewsEU

   March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

   CORRECTION:

   The Northern League are, of course, Italian, not French as claimed at 2:00

   Melenchon left the Socialists in 2008, not 2018 as claimed at 8:35.

   Apologies for that; we thought it was worth mentioning that these were both mistakes in production, not by our writers/researchers, so don’t worry, our French writers know what they’re talking about. Anyway, apologies again, and we’ll try our best to make sure this sort of thing doesn’t happen again.

   PS: some people have suggested we probably should’ve focused more on Hollande’s policy failures than his personal life. In retrospect, you guys were probably correct, but hopefully the wider point – that Hollande’s presidency has had long lasting consequences for the socialists and the French left more generally – still came through.

   And as a final final thing, thanks for calling us out on it – constructive feedback always welcomed, and as an audience you guys are great at it (and remarkably well-informed)!

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   @killiannleloch421

   March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

   We are in 2024, and the left of Melenchon tried to create the coalition you talked about, named NUPES.

   NUPES is falling down due to disorganization and controversy by Jean Luc Melenchon and his party (like Matilde Panot who have controversed speech on Israel conflict)

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   @psychefoxey2262

   March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

   The thingthat LFI istrying to do, simply put, is to remake a left-wing from the ashes of the PS and PCF, EELV behing more neo-liberal (in the economical term) than ecologist, putting them more in the alignement of the rignt wing in power (which ties relationshipwith the far-right (meaning the one from a fascist and "yazi" heritage, like the RN and R! (the latter not behing so much of an immediat threat but the first one is really worrying, Macron's party passing laws directly taken from them for instance))).

   So it's really a work of 15 years actively, and a 40 years deppresion of the left (literaly). Most french people behing crazy mad at the presentand last governments (Macron's neo-liberalism, Holland's love for reppression since 2016 (and neo-liberalism as fck to socialism), Sarkozy implementing the first reppressive laws since more than a decade (and it's warcrimes count, the french Obama in a way) because it seems that it is democracy (in most if not all of it's form) that is dying, the position of the power doesn't reflecting the one of the people, often making France a joke, and the simingly impossible wayto manifest dissatisfaction, rebel or even institutionally making moves (the left deputies (mostly LFI I won't hide my biases) have a joke of a job, because it's less and less possible to even make a proposal of law pass to debate, so nothing is acounted at the moment the more radical left (some PS, a few PCF, mostly LFI, really few dissidents) makes moves.

   We need to make the thought of the access to the power a questionof most importance, and fighting on all fronts, because we are not at advantage, like we stand alone against most of the organism of power, the mediatic class, the bourgeoisie (that can be really strong allies in some rare case, like history already proved, and we see again nowadays, but it's rare and a few).

   Anyways;TLDR;I'm tired it's 00:34am here, love ya'll, and keep thinking, rethinking and fighting. Working together, collectively, is the key.

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4. 

   @psychefoxey2262

   March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

   Would love to see an actualised version, from 2022 to 2024, something like that

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5. 

   @user-rh9yk6oy9r

   March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

   French leftist parties never take responsibility for islamization of France

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6. 

   @LurkingObserver

   March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

   suddenly macron is right wing? He got to the point he either controls the bills or the government is overthrown

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   @pimpleonureye

   March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

   That mustache is doing you no favors my man.

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   @ANTICOMwestcoast

   March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

   are you dumb? macron may be at “center” but the laws, taxes and regulations he passes suggest otherwise. that’s why there’s gladly right wing parties to take him out !

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   @JUAN_OLIVIER

   March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

   "Why France Has No Left Wing"
   – Macron: Am I a joke to you?

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    @potheo2145

    March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

    Melenchon made 22% at the 2022 elections, ranking third. All points from the left parties amounted to 32-33% so the left hasn't disappeared in France. It's weaker than it used to and it's fragmented but it exists. But most importantly Melenchon is much much more left-wing than the PS you focused which had Blair-like policies.

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    @thetruth1107

    March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

    1 year later, we see that Melanchon is actually popular and the left is the second power on the parliament

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12. 

    @juliencharnay7479

    March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

    And this country is dying. Except its billionaires. We're still waiting for trickle down but people seem to be happy about that…

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13. 

    @miniaturejayhawk8702

    March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

    I wouldnt say that the idea of a rising-star politician coming seemingly out of nowhere and being pushed by the establishment for seemingly no reason is a conspiracy.

    I russia we have putin, in germany we have scholz, in america we have biden, in britain we have sunak, in france we have macron, in canada we have trudeau and in china we have xi.

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    @MrH103

    March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

    1:32. "They apparently poisoned the socialist brand for years to come."
    Considering that Socialism often lead to genocide and mass starvation, I don't think it's possible to damage the Socialism's image even further.

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    @abygorsonabor7982

    March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

    lol, how misguided your political spectrum has to be so as to not consider 95% of France center-left to far-left. The EU is such a socialist shithole.

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    @mireillelebeau2513

    March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

    Macron gives the left a battle horse with the new set of rules he imposes for the pension.

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17. 

    @unifiedvision999

    March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

    As things get difficult for a country, economic or otherwise, people become fearful…scared people tend to get angry, blame everyone but themselves, and become hardasses: in other words, they become right-wingers, authoritarians. It is despicable that France…the cradle of European democracy, are becoming hate-filled fascists.

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18. 

    @DingleberryPie

    March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

    Logic wins in the end.

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    @fdddd2023

    March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

    Calling PIS in Poland right-wing is very misleading, they are literally far-left doing the biggest socialist programs in the Polish history (500+, house+, 13s), the only not far-left thing they do is that they are not agaist religion like regular far-left, but they still promote secular government

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20. 

    @charleybarley7148

    March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

    The left is dying all over the world because (in part) the loudest and most influential of them are liberal identitarians who preach a flawed gospel and say nothing meaningful about class. The left will DIE OUT unless they start critiquing and understanding political economy. Everything else is just reform, etiquette, and window dressing.

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21. 

    @albertpacajpacaj6443

    March 6, 2024 at 5:09 pm

    democtatic dictatorship public in live Broadcast

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