[Good news, bad news as elections reconfigure world politics]
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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK - ELECTORAL ACTION AND STRATEGIES
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June 8, 2022
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_ Good news, bad news as elections reconfigure world politics _
Students and activists gather outside the Commission on Elections to
protest its unofficial tally of the national elections, showing
presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. on course to
win the presidency, in Manila. Credit, REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
* An Activist’s Guide to Getting Elected
* Brazil: Lula Ahead, Bolsonaro Still Raising Hell
* Makabayan in Philippines
* New Zealand’s Māori Party
* France: New Ecological and Social Popular Union
* Setback for the Left in Kerala
* Petro’s Progress
* Denmark Red-Green Alliance Gets to Work
* Québec Solidaire Talks to Die Linke
* Lebanon’s MMFD
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An Activist’s Guide to Getting Elected
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_Peggy Nash_ / Canadian Dimension (Winnipeg)
Leading an organization or running for and winning office is very time
consuming. You need to be motivated and energized. If it will tear you
apart to run when you are pregnant or have your kids at home, then
don’t do it. But know that it can be done and done successfully.
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BRAZIL: LULA AHEAD, BOLSONARO STILL RAISING HELL
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_Andrew Fishman_ / The Intercept (New York)
Lula’s lead is most dramatic among women and younger, poorer, and
less educated voters, as well as Catholics, unemployed people, and
Black Brazilians, who are a demographic majority.
Bolsonaro’s highest approval ratings are among business leaders
and the wealthiest voters.
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MAKABAYAN IN PHILIPPINES
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_Jodesz Gavilan_ / Rappler (Manila)
The results of the May 9 polls reflect the fruition of the Duterte
government’s long-running effort to malign and harass progressive
groups. From six seats in the 18th Congress, the Makabayan bloc is set
to occupy only three seats in the incoming 19th Congress.
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NEW ZEALAND’S M
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_Tess McClure_ / The Guardian (London)
Election year is approaching, and it seems increasingly likely the
party could hold the balance of power in New Zealand’s next
government. The next election could deal Te Pati Māori a winning
hand, but it’s not yet clear how they’d like to play it.
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SOME TAKES ON FRANCE’S NEW LEFT ELECTORAL COALITION
* THE NEXT LEFT HOPE
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_Harrison Stetler_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Brussels)
* MÉLENCHON’S SUCCESS
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_Julian-Nicolas Calfuquir_ / Jacobin (New York)
* FARTHER LEFT
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Dejean_ / International Viewpoint (Paris)
* A DISTORTING MIRROR
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_Enzo Traverso_ / Verso (London)
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SETBACK FOR THE LEFT IN KERALA
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The Wire (New Delhi)
Voters swung to the center in a by-election in Thrikkakara. Uma
Thomas' victory is being perceived as a shift in the public mood
against chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, and against the K-Rail
project, which the LDF government has been pushing aggressively.
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_Forrest Hilton_ / London Review of Books
Along with the cities of Cali, Bogotá, Barranquilla, Cartagena and
Buenaventura, Petro took the areas most devastated by war and by the
cocaine, mining, agribusiness and petroleum industries; the majority
of the country’s Indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples live there.
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DENMARK RED-GREEN ALLIANCE GETS TO WORK
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_Dick Nichols and Line Barfod_ / Green Left (Sydney)
Last November, the radical left Red-Green Alliance (RGA) shook up
Danish politics, coming first in the elections for Copenhagen City
Council. Line Barfod is now in charge of the council’s work in the
fields of urban renewal and development, climate, housing and
traffic.
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SOLIDAIRE TALKS TO DIE LINKE
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_Alejandra Zaga Mendez, André Frappier and Stefan Liebich_ / Rosa
Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
In a wide-ranging discussion that covered Quebec’s independence
movement, anti-racist politics, social housing, and the task of
engaging grassroots networks, Linke’s Liebich and QS’s Zaga
Mendez and Frappier talk about left platforms and campaigns on both
sides of the Atlantic.
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Why Lebanon’s MMFD Couldn't Budge Hezbollah
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_Farah-Silvana Kanaan and Wael Taleb_ / L'Orient-Le Jour (Beirut)
Opposition party MMFD (Citizens in a State) appeared well positioned
to secure several seats in Parliament in the May 15 elections. The
party’s secretary general, Charbel Nahas, gained significant
popularity, but when the votes were counted, MMFD came up
empty-handed.
* Brazil
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* Lula da Silva
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* Jair Bolsonaro
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* Philippines election
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* Makabayan
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* New Zealand
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* Māori Party
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* France
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* Jean-Luc Mélenchon
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* New Ecological and Social Popular Union
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* India
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* Kerala elections
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* Uma Thomas
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* Pinarayi Vijayan
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* Left Democratic Front
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* Canada
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* Denmark
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* Red-Green Alliance
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* Line Barfod
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* Die Linke
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* Germany
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* Quebec Solidaire
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* QUebec
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* Gustavo Petro
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* Colombia
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* Lebanon
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* Citizens in a State
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* Charbel Nahas
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* Peggy Nash
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* New Democratic Party
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