France says no to nationalism - Macron projected to win

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-idUSKBN183003


Macron wins French presidency by emphatic margin: projections

Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France on Sunday with a business-friendly vision of European integration, defeating Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who threatened to take France out of the European Union, early projections showed.

The centrist's emphatic victory, which also smashed the dominance of France’s mainstream parties, will bring huge relief to European allies who had feared another populist upheaval to follow Britain's vote to quit the EU and Donald Trump's election as U.S. president.

Five projections, issued within minutes of polling stations closing at 8 p.m. (2 p.m. ET), showed Macron beating Le Pen by around 65 percent to 35 - a gap wider than the 20 or so percentage points that pre-election surveys had pointed to.


 

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The deliberately torn ballots mailed out to Le Pen voters was the nail in the coffin. Torn = invalid. There was no way the establishment was going to have another Brexit or Trump (which the lady reportedly is not, by any stretch). Still, I hear she got 35% of the vote...1/3 of France still voted for her (and those are the ones that got counted). They're gonna have to take that into consideration.
 

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Unlike the Trump constituency, the French electorate was sophisticated enough to realize that the Russians were attempting to manipulate their democratic elections through hacking and leaks.

This French president, contrary to his American counterpart, will not be undermining and discrediting investigations by his own nation's security agencies, as they attempt to investigate Russian hacking and leaking to influence the political process!
 

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meanwhile, the new frog prez has how many supporters in parliament?

a majority?

nope

a minority?

nope



not a single one :darwinsm:
 

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Unlike the Trump constituency, the French electorate was sophisticated enough to realize that the Russians were attempting to manipulate their democratic elections through hacking and leaks.

This French president, contrary to his American counterpart, will not be undermining and discrediting investigations by his own nation's security agencies, as they attempt to investigate Russian hacking and leaking to influence the political process!

They're not even on our level. Shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath as the USA. French homos


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The French aren't really sophisticated. They showed a lack of analytical skills (stupidity) in not knowing he is hard left, and not a centrist. Too bad. As declared when it was shown Jacques Chirac was helping Hussein and taking millions in kick backs/bribes, that all future liberations cancelled.
 

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by RAHEEM KASSAM 8 May 2017

Thoughtful leftists might have realised that Marine Le Pen would have probably done more for their socialist economic cause than Emmanuel Macron ever will.

Still, this hasn’t stopped them gloating since the glaringly obvious (to me, anyway) happened, and Marine Le Pen was defeated yesterday in the second round of the French Presidential election.



Your movement is dead!” they cried. “The populist/nationalist cause is over!” they screeched.

Even CNN… sorry, especially CNN were basically popping champagne bottles all over their studios. The ever odious Christiane Amanpour couldn’t have been more inappropriate on air if she had jumped on stage and started twerking along to*Ode to Joy*(rather than La Marseillaise).

Still it brings me great satisfaction that our political and philosophical adversaries are so complacent, having lost their globalist battles in the two most important Western nations in the world in 2016 — the United States and the United Kingdom — they’re now
performing cartwheels over managing to bully the playground whipping boy, France.

France, ladies and gentlemen. Where the working day is about 3.5 hours long, punctuated by garlic bread breaks and miniature riots (usually after someone worked an extra hour and didn’t get an additional garlic bread break).

Such victories are scarcely more than Pyrrhic.

We saw their same happy clappy antics when the Green candidate won in Austria at the end of 2016.

The headlines are always the same, using phrases like, “roundly rejects the far right!” or “an embarrassment” for someone the election scarcely concerned.

You never see the same when the left loses though. When the Remain campaign were beaten in Britain, no one ran the headline: “Britain Roundly Rejects Pro-EU Campaign!” When Hillary lost, where was Christine Amanpour to hurl abusive “isms” and “phobias” at her? (There were plenty of reasons to,*remember?)
Nevertheless, the buffoons who prop up the likes of Macron while he picks their pockets are pleased with what transpired on Sunday.

But so are the Front National.

The party has achieved something many thought it never would. Thirty-five per cent of the vote in a Presidential election. Double what Jean Marie Le Pen achieved in 2002 when he shocked the French and global political establishments by progressing through to the second round. As Germany’s Foreign Minister*remarked, Marine Le Pen attracting 11 million votes was something the “centrists” and leftists were not ready for.

The party has used this opportunity to build a far more robust election machine than it has ever had. I visited their offices in Paris in February and they were far more organised and tech savvy than Trump or the Brexit team. So what if the timing was wrong for them? In June there are legislative elections in France and you can bet your bottom*dollar*Euro the FN will walk away with a net swing in their favour.

As ever, of course, the Germans are keen to act as puppet masters to the new French president. As ever, the French*voted someone in keen to dance to the tune ofDeutschland Uber Alles.

f Macron fails then the next president will be Marine Le Pen and we need to prevent this at all cost,” said Foreign Minister Roth. At least he is attuned to what yesterday’s results meant, even if his base is too busy celebrating the defeat of patriotism by the forces of globalism.

But let them eat fake hope, I say.

The truth is for the nationalists and populists around the world, this was a rite of passage. A coming of age into the political mainstream. A French Presidential election candidate discussing — openly — radical Islam, immigration, national sovereignty and the demolition of the European Union? And winning over one third of the national vote?

C’est magnifique!*
 

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by RAHEEM KASSAM 8 May 2017

Thoughtful leftists might have realised that Marine Le Pen would have probably done more for their socialist economic cause than Emmanuel Macron ever will.

Maybe they should learn that it's poisonous to be too open an ally of Putin, a man who violently oppresses his own people and seeks to roll back democracy. Whatever you think of either candidates' economic policies, there's a real chance Le Pen could have ended the Fifth Republic.

You (he) are right that it's too early to call this nationalist movement dead, but it has lost some momentum. And Putin's blessing may not be such a help. Le Pen may have done better than in the past, but she underperformed versus the polls.
 
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