1950

Given they were still serving wine in school cafeterias until 1956 (and in highschool until 1981) I’m not surprised this man was not prepared for the taste of Coca-Cola ™ !

making sure everyone is okay.

Given the current state of the world, that would be progress.

Part real Greens, part Greenpeace, part Green-washing.

The background trend, unfortunately, is of the far right slowly but surely gaining votes. We pushed them back to third place today, but they still almost doubled the number of representatives they’ll be sending to parliament (from 89 to the projected ~130 for today’s elections).

• In 2002, Jacques Chirac won against the far right with 82% (to the far right’s 18%).
• In 2017, Macron won against the far right with 66% (to the far right’s 34%).
• In 2022, Macron won against the far right with 58% (to the far right’s 41%).

IMO it’s largely a consequence of the center-left and center-right (Hollande, Macron) completely abandoning the working class, and demonizing the left whilst cozying up to the far-right (mostly Macron, though Hollande definitely slid right over his term).

The French political system, casually referred to as the “Republic of Friends,”

Where does the author get this? I’m French and have never heard of our system called as such - especially not by a French person.