Damien

Well it is democratic. Le Pen was offering a referendum, he wasn't and he won. Now he won for different reasons but when you're voting people in you vote for them on a platform some of which may be unpopular.

France isn't run by a dictator. The French people are actually very politically engaged, more so than us, and knew what they were doing. Look at their Presidential debates, they sit down with each other for three hours, having long substantive debates.

Macron went to his country with an unapologetic position of being pro-EU. He didn't lie about that, he didn't even pretend to be conflicted about it, he spoke of it constantly. He said that this was his position and it came as part of the package of his governance even if that particular position had minority support.

I swear this forum uses 'Democracy' without any care for how democracies actually work. Anytime the notion of compromise, unpopular decisions or even an idea is floated that isn't liked out come the cries of 'democracy'. As if every democracy should decide every policy via what currently has 50% plus support. Very few nations manage their democracy this way. The only one that springs to mind is Switzerland.

You just disagree with his decision. That's fine. Dissent is also part of a democracy but seriously let-up on the idea that everything that a government does, including holding a referendum or not, is undemocratic.