France’s 3 Big Parties’ Manifestos Compared

The three leading political alliances standing in the upcoming french elections all have very different visions for France, so in this video we’re going to explain the plans proposed by each alliance, going through them in order of their polling position.

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[phoenixfire]

Putting everything else aside I’m just impressed that a stable leftist faction managed to form without spontaneously decaying into its components

[sophieedel]

France has the right idea that Europe needs to buy European. 80% of Europe's defense spending flows to the US, Europe is subsidizing US defense companies. Europe also needs to develop its own tech industry and reject US tech colonisalism. But France also needs to not try to put their companies first in this whole narrative, Europe's competitors are the US and China, not other EU countries.

[andareas]

It's important to note that polls shown in the video are not representative of potential results. French legislative elections are held in 2 turns with a uninominal majority ballot (as opposed to modt of european parliaments using proportional vote), and some second turn elections can have more than 2 candidates running, the one with the biggest score wining the local election.
This means that each local election can have completely different outcomes.
The National Assembly can next month have a absolute majority (289 PR to do so) or just be completely blocked. Each local election brings new odds, which is what makes this election very difficult to predict.

[fungo]

Privatizing the public broadcaster? That ain't gonna end well.

[brainlesscactus]

4:00 NFP proposes to raise the minimum wage to 1600€ not 2000€

[cslp]

This dude has come so far from 3 years ago his voice is so fuckin clear and annunciated (the tldr guy not the people the video is talking about)

[aghi]

Les français qui débattent entre eux en anglais dans les coms 😂😂😂

[Rigel_]

I mean, who French vote in is the French business, but I seriously hope they don't throw the rest of the continent under the bus and try to be friends with Kremlin. It never ends good

[whoviansonskaro]

A few things:
- Using Melenchon in the thumbnail to represent the New Popular Front is misleading. Unlike with the NUPES, Melenchon is not the NFP's leader, and is very unlikely to be. He's a hugely repulsive figure for the left to the general population unfortunately, only the mainstream media try to depict him as the NFP leader to decredibilise the alliance.
-I haven't seen the NFP credited of 35% anywhere yet, I think you got the number confused with that of the National Rally
-Raising the minimum wage to 2000€ a month? Is that before taxes? Because the number they provide in their manifesto is 1600€ after taxes.
-Careful when talking of 'far-left' parties. France unbowed/LFI, just like the Communist Party, are not considered 'far-left', as per decision of the Conseil d'Etat. I will concede that the NPA and its figurehead Philippe Poutou, who is a candidate for the NFP, are indeed considered 'far-left'
-It might have been worth mentioning each party's take on environment and climate issues.

[jorenbaplu]

The wealth tax is probably the only plan a party has to pay for all their extraordinary amounts of spending

[RipCityBassWorks]

Proportional representation and a citizens referendum is supported by both the right and left? Could those actually be accomplished?

[sirati]

proportional represention would be a good thing tho!

[forsteaua]

Skillshare are scammers, stop advertising them

[abdenorali]

France highest court stated that the Popular Front is left, not far left

[avengedsefenvold]

They are mistakes in this video, you probably confuse the LFI program et the NFP program which is definitely not the same thing (even if LFI is in the NFP)

[Nekoala]

You forgot to say that Popular Front is the only one of these three contenders to have thought out and published a (detailed) financial plan. They're also backed by top-ranking economists. So, Macron's claim for his opponent's program to be unfinanceable is a big joke.

[grinsgefal]

That bit about proportional representation looked promising. But the real plans aim for only a fraction of seats that are allocated this way. So France's electoral system would stay quite flawed and skewed. Suboptimal in terms of pure democracy.

[jim]

Whoever made this thumbnail should be proud

[NicklasZandeVGCP]

I think I like the Popular Front's platform the best.

[imya]

thumbnail is actually heaps good ngl. yous need to use more colours often, ditch using the blue rectangle on the side and make them more vibrant