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The prospect of the hard-left France Unbowed party taking control of Toulouse, France’s fourth-largest city and home to Europe’s best-known airplane maker, is putting industry on edge.

It’s not just that a win in the second round of local elections Sunday could give the party’s anticapitalist leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a major boost ahead of next year’s presidential election. That’s a concern for later.

The immediate fear is that if France Unbowed makes history here — the party has never come close to controlling such a big metropolis — it will heap taxes on local icons like Airbus to pay for a generous manifesto that includes water subsidies, free public transport for residents under 26 years old, and free school meals and educational supplies.

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[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 32 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Hey, they believe in extremist terrorist stuff like investing in public services for the good of everyone. Clearly these people are crazy and dangerous.^*^

*to the wealth and power of billionaires.

They want less parking space … clearly they want the downfall of western civilization!

[–] einkorn@feddit.org 44 points 4 hours ago

water subsidies, free public transport for residents under 26 years old, and free school meals and educational supplies.

Imagne being afraid of providing the funds necessary for these things ...

[–] Marcomunista@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

It reminds me of the scene in the simpsons where the lawyer imagines a world without lawyers

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

You humans and your feelings—always getting in the way of BIG CASH PAYOFFS!!!

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The only problem with France Insoumise is Mélenchon, everything else is the old PSF+justified anger at neoliberalism.