Posted on 11/09/2016 3:31:16 AM PST by monkapotamus
Marine Le Pen, who is running for president next spring, has long said Trump’s politics were in French interests, congratulated the “free” American people.
Viktor Orbán, the hardline nationalist leader of Hungary, said Trump’s victory was great news. “Democracy is still alive,” read a post on his Facebook page.
Frauke Petry, the lead of Germany’s rightwing populist Alternative für Deutschland, said the result was “encouraging” as could herald a political sea-change in Europe too.
He said: “It was high time that in the United States of America, people who feel disaffected withdrew their vote for the political establishment. Whilst 93% of voters in Washington DC voted for Clinton and in so doing for the retention of their own power structures, the majority of voters across the country want a political new beginning, an economic recovery for the stricken middle class and an end of division in what is still the most powerful country in the world...”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
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