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Le Pen Takes Commanding Lead in Presidential Election Polls
Breitbart ^ | 11/20/16 | Donna Rachel Edmunds

Posted on 11/20/2016 8:36:10 AM PST by Enlightened1

Front National leader Marine Le Pen has taken a substantial lead in the latest French presidential election poll, eight points ahead of her nearest rival. Le Pen secured the support of 29 percent of those surveyed by Ipsos, placing her a commanding eight points ahead of former President Nicolas Sarkozy, representing Les Républicains, and a decisive 15 points ahead of Parti de Gauche’s (Left Party’s) Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the Independent has reported.

At the last Presidential elections in 2012, a year after taking the reins of her party, Ms Le Pen came third in the first round of the with 17.9 per cent of the vote, behind Mr Sarkozy on 27.2 percent and eventual winner Mr Hollande with 28.6 percent.

Since then, however, the party has gone from strength to strength with a string of electoral successes, making her a serious contender for the 2017 Presidential race.

The French Prime Minister Manuel Valls earlier this week conceded that a Le Pen win next year is “possible”, with her bid boosted by the shock election of president-elect Donald Trump in the US Presidential elections.

Mr Valls said: “If she does make it to the second round she will face either a candidate of the left or the right. This means that the balance of politics will change completely.”

Appearing last Sunday on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show – an interview which Marr admitted in his preamble would have been unthinkable before Trump’s election – Le Pen said that Trump’s win “made possible what had previously been presented as impossible. This is really the victory of the people against the elites”

She added: “[This] is a global revolution.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; leads; lepen; polls; presidential
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If Le Pen gets elected, then the Globalist will be freaking out.

I expect the Globalist to try to steal it from her.

1 posted on 11/20/2016 8:36:10 AM PST by Enlightened1
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Excellent news!


2 posted on 11/20/2016 8:39:11 AM PST by GnuThere
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Who goes first ? Germany or France...we need a Trifecta..and the other may go down more easily.

Brits
Yanks
and
Frogs


3 posted on 11/20/2016 8:41:39 AM PST by RummyChick (Trump Train Hobo TM Rummychick. Example - Ryan Romney Kasich. Quit trying to Jump on the Train)
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Horrible news, no pollster was more wrong than Ipsos, well maybe Survey monkey


4 posted on 11/20/2016 8:41:57 AM PST by Emergencyawesome
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Good, and hopefully he to gets elected, and all this open border, lets open the west to third world immigrants sop women get raped, , and have backward views can stop, and be overturned.


5 posted on 11/20/2016 8:42:19 AM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Enlightened1

I’m expecting some clique within our globalist, socialist ruling elite to attempt a false-flag event with Russia, in an attempt to divert the trend of localism and nationalism.


6 posted on 11/20/2016 8:43:19 AM PST by PGR88
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Wait until she proposes Frexit. Germany will declare war on France again.


7 posted on 11/20/2016 8:43:59 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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It’s difficult to see her winning. Those numbers are good but the French Presidential elections are rigged to keep her out. She’ll need a huge shy le Pen vote to come out. I hope to be proven wrong, certainly recent events make her victory less improbable than before.


8 posted on 11/20/2016 8:44:08 AM PST by Scottishlibertarian
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Frexit!


9 posted on 11/20/2016 8:52:59 AM PST by GnuThere
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It will be very difficult this time to relegate her to third place in the first round. If she gets into the second round, she will win.


10 posted on 11/20/2016 8:55:08 AM PST by kabar
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To: Emergencyawesome

You mean she’s ahead double what they think?


11 posted on 11/20/2016 8:57:29 AM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: manc

He’s a she.


12 posted on 11/20/2016 8:58:50 AM PST by aquila48
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"Germany will declare war on France again."

So what! The Germans and the French have been sticking their tongues out at each other all along, behind all this "amis bien-aimés/geliebte Freunde" baloney. At the drop of un chapeau/einen Hut, the Krauts will be charging across the border, and they'll be at it again.

13 posted on 11/20/2016 9:05:42 AM PST by Savage Beast (Trump is the Resistance! Vive la résistance!)
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Are the French too far gone to straighten their country out?

We shall see in 2017.

Go Le Pen


14 posted on 11/20/2016 9:16:14 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: manc

15 posted on 11/20/2016 9:19:46 AM PST by Enlightened1
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I understand that there will be elections in Austria pretty soon.


16 posted on 11/20/2016 9:25:21 AM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA IS ALL THAT TRULY MATTERS)
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I don’t know?


17 posted on 11/20/2016 9:26:08 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: GnuThere

Ditto the “excellent news”. A resurgent France could be the key in throwing off the Muslim invasion.


18 posted on 11/20/2016 9:26:41 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast ("Now it's up to the American people to deliver justice")
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muzzie target, for sure.


19 posted on 11/20/2016 9:27:52 AM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA IS ALL THAT TRULY MATTERS)
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To: manc

It’s not the old man, but his daughter.


20 posted on 11/20/2016 9:33:18 AM PST by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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