After tactical voting, what?

Jean Luc Melenchon [Reuters/Yara Nardi]

The great questions as to how France will be governed reflects the magnitude of the strategic success of the parties of the center and left in the run-up to the second round of the national elections. They cooperated well, supporting each other wherever there was a chance to beat candidates of the extreme-right, and they got people to go out and vote. A few days earlier, in Britain, similar cooperation between the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats was crowned with success. Labour won a great majority in the House of Commons (411 of the 650 seats) despite getting a smaller percentage than in the elections of 2017 (33.8 percent today, 40 percent then), when they had lost again to the Conservatives, who had been governing since 2010. The LibDems, too, achieved their best result on Thursday (72 seats, from 11 in 2019). 

Cooperation and the right strategy are vital, then....

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