When LePen started to show signs of success, my first thought was that Macron is not a stupid bettor. He’s Wall Street. He always has a pair of loaded dice in his palm.
Last week when LePen mostly won the first round, I got carried away with the usual false optimism.
Turns out the first answer was right as usual. Macron shorted the country expertly, blackmailing middle-party candidates to pull out so LePen couldn’t win. Sure enough, the left side has come out ahead. They now owe their success to Macron so they will repay the debt.
As the Blanc Brothers, founders of modern casinos and stock crimes, said,
Que rouge ou noir sorte, c’est toujours Blanc qui gagne!
And that’s what happened. First noir seemed to be ahead, now rouge has “won”, but the Blanc Brothers always gain from both sides of the bet.
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Later: Well, maybe not. Melenchon is the leader of the victorious Left, and he sounds like a serious populist, aiming to restore the proper French approach to capitalism.
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He noted that “as early as this summer,” decrees can be issued to repeal Macron’s pension reform, increase the minimum wage, and call for more pay negotiations, among other projects. On Macron’s Ensemble, he said: “We refuse to enter into negotiations with his party to make compromises, especially after having fought against his failures for seven years.”
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But he doesn’t have enough seats to control Parliament, so his rhetoric might be empty.
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