Posted on 06/18/2017 7:59:27 PM PDT by Spiridon
French President Emmanuel Macron's party has won a clear parliamentary majority, results show, weeks after his own presidential victory.
With nearly all votes counted, his La Republique en Marche, alongside its MoDem allies, won more than 300 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly.
The winning margin is lower than some expected....
.....National Front won eight seats, but it had set its sights on 15.
FN leader Marine Le Pen, 48 has won a seat in parliament for the first time, representing Henin-Beaumont, a depressed former mining town in the north.....
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Marine Le Pen was elected to the National Assembly for the first time in her political career. The FN increased its seats from two to eight in the National Assembly.
France chose Macron despite the attacks of Muslims. So be it, but no pity from me when it keeps happening.
He will forever be known as the man who married his grandmother.
I don’t care about France, Germany, or UK. Let them keep committing suicide. Bunch of people have battered wives syndrome, and none of them have guts to fight for anything. They’re all a heavily welfare culture and it made them weak; no character, no backbone.
There is a LOT of rumors that she may be a beard as well.
I’m not sure what to say at this point, but I was watching Fox News coverage of the ‘incident’ in London earlier and the guest on the phone, Ric Grenell, spoke of monitoring ‘all radical conversations’.
Grenell, who has worked in the highest levels of the US government, considered for NATO Ambassador by President Trump, says we need to monitor ‘all radical conversations’.
I take that to mean that anyone who wants to ‘fight back’ in the face of terrorism would be considered ‘radical’ by the highest levels of our own government.
The priority for Americans must be looking out for the USA it would seem to me and I elected Donald Trump to do that and I hope he does when it comes to our security from terrorism.
I don’t want to see Americans angered by terrorist attacks to be labeled as ‘radical’ and monitored by the government.
I care about them because we need allies in this world. We can’t stand alone.
I don’t know if they have a chance but I do care.
Yeah it’s crazy. Trump is 32 years older than Macron but his wife is 17 years younger than Macrons!
I went over to “Le Figaro” and did some Google translation.
359 seats for the Macron party.
Eight for the National Front including Marine Le Pen, who won her seat with 58 percent of the vote over the Macron candidate.
Marine’s “boyfriend-partner” use what term works for you Louis Aliot was also elected to the National Assembly for the National Front.
Like it or not, allied with the US we are stronger than the mohammedans. If those countries are under mohammedan rule, the US is not as strong, and may not even be strong enough.
The US needs to take the lead by declaring mohammedanism to be both a religion and an organization dedicated to the violent overthrow of the United States government. We need to strip it of its protections under its pretense of being a peaceful religion.
If we do not do this our grandsons will be eunuchs under cruel new rulers in our own land, and our granddaughters will be their concubines.
Macron,establishment’s puppet and poodle , is a “lame duck” “elected” and selected amidst a very big abstention ......
He is already anointed by A. Merkel the german PM.
Not a good sign !!
I presume that Macron’s bubble will collapse soon
Are you implying that Melania married her Grandfather? At the very least father. I think her father is actually younger then Trump. Does it all matter if they love each other?
The Macron ‘phenomenon’ is something that will be discussed for decades.
This is a guy who has a degree in philosophy (totally worthless, except they taught him how to debate and argue points). At age 15, he’d taken up with his 39-year old teacher (married, with kids at the time). His parents skipped calling the cops or trying to fire her....instead sent him off to a private school....but it didn’t matter, Macron would continue to see her.
Macron would end up at a gov’t academy to teach gifted students higher management skills. His particular trade? How to audit accounts and find hidden money. He comes in and is given a middle-grade audit job with the government....does quiet well, and within four years is hired by Rothschild Bank to handle several accounts. He’s there mostly to help prevent audit mistakes and prevent people from finding hidden assets.
After a couple of years, Macron decides to return to politics and has skipped a number of normal steps....to reach Deputy Secretary General under President Hollande. This is by age 34. Two years pass, and he’s now appointed as a cabinet minister (age 36).
Somewhere around 2015, he’s talking of election chances within the Socialist Party (Hollande’s group), at age 37. The VIPs of the party probably sat there and were laughing. No way. So Macron goes off at age 38 to create his own party out of thin air.
The money for this vehicle? Unknown. No journalist has made any attempt over the past year to tell the creation part of this story.
The Sunday election results? The biggest sign of a bubble is the fact that roughly 35-percent of the registered voters came out to vote. Lowest turn-out since the 1950s. No interest in the outcome.
Macron’s whole agenda? If you peel away the sides, it’s basically a Trump-like agenda...to seek advantages for French companies and French wealth. He’ll take every gimmick that Merkel used in manipulating the EU, and use it for insiders to his political party.
I agree....there is a bubble....but this is the most unique bubble ever conceived. The two political parties that had led France since WW II? You can look over the results but both appear to be mostly finished off.
and the muslims rejoice!
My step niece married a much older man, 1 that was just 7 yrs younger than her dad who is now 91. You might remember him Dr from Love Boat. Very solid marriage that produced 2 fine soon to be men. Which is a unusual for LIBTARDS who divorce at the drop of a wrong word.
I don’t want to get into your disagreement with the other poster, but I did just want to mention that Melania’s father is in fact older than Trump.
“I don’t want to see Americans angered by terrorist attacks to be labeled as ‘radical’ and monitored by the government.”
From the 1950s forward, TV westerns used to present regular plots that stressed the absolute evil that was vigilantism.
Nothing could be worse.
I grew up believing it.
Now we see our government cashing in on that, spending time and treasure trying to identify people who might stop terrorists, when they would be better occupied identifying terrorists.
I was referring to Macron, not Trump. Read it again.
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