“We do not harbor any special hopes” for improving ties with France, Moscow said.
Russia’s hopes for smoothing over relations with France were dashed by the results of the French legislative election, a Kremlin spokesperson said Monday.
France’s far-right National Rally, which has been criticized for its Russia-friendly positions, was unexpectedly trounced at the second round of polls on Sunday, with a leftist alliance snatching the most seats in a hung parliament.
“The victory of political forces that would be supporters of efforts to restore our bilateral relations is definitely better for Russia, but so far we do not see such bright political will in anyone, so we do not harbor any special hopes or illusions in this regard,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Monday.
I mean, he’s not actually a contender, is he? His party is on the fringe of the left wing coalition. The other parties said they wouldn’t make him PM and he said he wouldn’t demand it. Macronists certainly aren’t going to accept him.
To me, the only 2 outcomes are gridlock or someone non-controversial from the left. Laurent Berger is a name I saw come up but I’m not the world’s foremost French politics knower.
Yeah. Just as a progressive I have higher expectations for other left-leaning people. We’re supposed to be the sensible ones that stay current and want people to have good lives.
Though I do recognize the existence of what I call conservative leftism, where they’re not current and resist changing their minds, and are left mainly because of what they’ve learned in the past. Could also call it dogmatic leftism. It’s when they don’t like learning new things and challenging their own beliefs to keep up with a shifting world. It’s traditionalism, just a leftist tradition, and I dislike it almost as much as every other kind of rigid-minded conservatism.
Someone else pointed out that the position was old too, so he may have moderated it since then.