The fateful and painful choice awaiting the Jews of France
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For the Jewish community in the country, it is a difficult choice, as many remember and fear the anti-Semitic past of the far-right National Front on the one hand, and on the other fear the anti-Israeli stance of the far-left founded by Jean-Luc Melenchon.
In France, the electoral system is regional, with the country divided into 577 constituencies, each sending one representative to the National Assembly. Under the country's electoral laws, a candidate must obtain at least 50% of the votes in the district in which he is running, and in the event that no candidate obtains 50%, a second round of voting is held between all candidates who received more than 12.5% of the vote. In the first round of voting, only 76 members were elected, with the victors in the remaining races to be determined today.
In many regions of France, three or more candidates advanced to the second round, which prompted the Macron-led Rennaisance Party and the La France Insoumise coalition of far-left and even anti-Semitic elements to declare war on the far right. As part of the war, it was decided that in any district where a Rennaisance candidate received more votes than a leftist coalition candidate, the leftist coalition candidate would withdraw and support the Rennaisance candidate. The same was decided in the opposite case - where a leftist coalition candidate received more votes. READ MORE
The fateful and painful choice awaiting the Jews of France
The fateful and painful choice awaiting the Jews of France
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