Posted on 05/07/2017 11:13:47 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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.
The 39-year-old former investment banker, who served for two years as economy minister but has never previously held elected office, will now become France's youngest leader since Napoleon with a promise to transcend outdated left-right divisions.
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When did a US presidential candidate ever get 65% of the vote.
Zero will most likely think he influenced the election with his Ad.
Took my grandson to France last month and found it, in the areas we visited, pretty much unchanged from when I was last there in 2010. I’m very glad we went as I would never risk it after this French debacle plays out.
Ultimately, the globals had to have this win. How much was fraud and how much was blind French stupidity, we’ll never know.
Invest in hijabs.
It hurt Marine Le Pen that her father, the founder of her political party said that she hasn’t got what it takes to be president. Many National Front party members are loyal to Mr. Le Pen and stayed home.
Turn out was the lowest in 40 years.
Not in modern times, and such would be unlikely to ever happen. If it did, it would be a sweep or near-sweep of the Electoral College.
I need to see real numbers from the French electoral commission before I can really call it though. Those numbers look so fishy.
Also the regional braekdown will be one worth seeing. Did Macron win it on the backs of Paris? If France minus Paris went for Le Pen (or at least split) then the urban-rural split is enormous still.
Vive la “Charles Hebdo,” Bastille Day, Nice, Fr, Bataclaan Theatre, Paris, Fr!
It won’t take 20...
Never again will I defend France or the French. France surrendered to the Islamic globalists. FU France.
That is the picture of France Today.
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Congratulations to Emmanuel Macron on his big win today as the next President of France. I look very much forward to working with him!
Have the French ever won anything of significance since Napoleon Bonaparte’s days? Even he got rolled in the end.
Live results commune by commune and department by department:
http://www.lemonde.fr/data/france/presidentielle-2017/
Departments would be roughly equivalent to a county, while communes are roughly equivalent to a township or city. The state-level government in France is the region, but there is no polling done with them.
Will the last French citizen out of France turn off the lights...heading back to the dark ages...
At least if Britain gets their shit together they can dump their Islamic crazies onto France.
You will know when Mrs. Macaroni, the first grandlady, begins wearing a hijab.
So only two ‘communes’ have been counted??
>>>Men dead for over 200 years still have to work to keep our asses out of the fire<<<
The Left is doing their damnedest to vilify those Brave and dare I say it, Progressive thinkers of their time.
Of course they were Progressive in their view of Individual Freedom, Governance and Self Determination, a far cry from the so called Progressives of today.
And the liars at MSNBC called him “pro-business”.
Right....
Two departments are fully counted. Clicking in can view areas with communes outstanding still.
From what I can see, Le Pen did best in the northeastern areas (east of Paris) and some southern areas. Macron dominated Paris and the west (particularly Brittany) which is not surprising, since Brittany is like old New England in many ways.
The overseas departments are mostly in as well, they are the areas on the bottom of the map.
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