{"id":14736,"date":"2017-05-03T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinaworker.info\/?p=14736"},"modified":"2017-05-03T22:08:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T14:08:27","slug":"france-macron-and-le-pen-reach-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaworker.info\/en\/2017\/05\/03\/14736\/","title":{"rendered":"France: Macron and Le Pen reach second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The result of the first round of the presidential election in France has shown a massive rejection of the established parties and what they represent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Clare Doyle, CWI<\/p>\n<p>It marks a watershed in France\u2019s politics and opens up possibilities for a movement from below that can build a new left and socialist force.<\/p>\n<p>The second round, on May 7th, between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will see many who did not vote for Macron in the first round, voting to prevent a far right presidency. Gauche Revolutionnaire, the CWI in France, sees a movement from below as the main way to block the path of reaction and fight the attacks the ruling class wants to launch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14737 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2017\/05\/french-election-2017-e1493790497754.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The candidate of the governing \u2018Socialist\u2019 Party got no more than two and a quarter million votes, or 6.3%, compared with over 7 million for the left-wing Melenchon who, at 19.6%, finished neck and neck with the discredited representative of the right wing Republicans, Francois Fillon at 19.9%.<\/p>\n<p>Up until the day of polling, as much as a third of voters were reported to be uncertain about whether to vote or which candidate to support. The turn-out was down compared with 2012 but reached over 78%. It is clear that many youth and workers want big changes in their conditions of life and work.<\/p>\n<p>Illusions in the \u2018new\u2019 movement of the front-runner \u2013 Emmanuel Macron \u2013 who got 25.9% and is most likely to defeat Marine le Pen of the National Front in the second round, will be shattered. He served in the discredited Hollande government before breaking away to set up the movement\/party \u2018En Marche!\u2019 (\u2018On the Move!\u2019) one year ago. As a former banker and architect of the hated anti-worker labour law, he will move to cut public spending and jobs while easing restrictions on the operations of big business.<\/p>\n<p>The National Front\u2019s Marine Le Pen, certainly picked up millions of votes from angry workers and young people with her anti-establishment and protectionist rhetoric, constantly claiming to represent \u2018The People\u2019 and a new approach but still playing the anti-immigration and islamophobic card. She is thought at present to be unlikely to add sufficiently to her score in the second round to win. Polls predict something between 60 and 65% for Macron to 40 \u2013 35% for Le Pen.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14739 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2017\/05\/Melenchon-e1493790665728.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/>Melenchon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the most dramatic developments in the presidential \u2018race\u2019 has been the massive surge in support for the \u2018France Unbowed\u2019 candidate, Jean-Luc Melenchon, who won over 3 million more votes than in 2012 with a programme of a massive increase in public investment to create jobs and services and a huge tax on the very rich. Roughly 231,600 voted for the Lutte Ouvriere candidate and 392,400 for the New Anti-Capitalists\u2019 Philippe Poutou, both less than in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Those votes added to Melenchon\u2019s, and a real push from left organisations, could have got him into the second round! This would have given a clear choice to workers and young people in the second round between a candidate defending capitalism and reaction and one representing a fight against the system and massive change in the interests of workers and young people.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the end of the battle nor will a defeat for Le Pen be the end of the far right in France. Already there have been demonstrations against Le Pen on the streets, but the main challenge now is for Melenchon to mobilise the forces who have supported him and build a fully socialist movement. He needs to be calling for assemblies in workplaces and neighbourhoods across the country to mobilise a movement against French capitalism. His supporters everywhere need to be organising now to build a party that can conduct a campaign for real workers\u2019 representatives on a socialist programme in the parliamentary elections in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The result of the first round of the presidential election in France has shown a massive rejection of the established parties and what they represent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":14737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>France: Macron and Le Pen reach second round - 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