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previously held elected office, will now become France's youngest leader since Napoleon with a promise to transcend outdated left-right divisions.
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I weep for France.
France is gone..and that would have been America had Hillary Clinton won
Adieu, la France!
More terrorism and hard times for France.
Here’s voxday on the election:
>What is remarkable about the election today is that the French people have already turned against the established anti-nationalist parties, rejecting both in the first round of voting. But while they are willing to reject both sides of the establishment, they are not yet ready to turn to the nationalists. In this, Macron plays much the same role as Trump; he is a nominal outsider who, despite his elite connections, was not a player in either establishment party.
>Macron will fail abysmally, of course, which is why I expect the Front National, possibly led by Marine Le Pen’s more telegenic niece, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, to come to power in the next election cycle.
>Americans who cannot fathom this reluctance to vote for the nationalists in light of the events in Paris and Nice would do well to recall their own history. Did Americans turn against immigration, foreign interference, and the establishment parties immediately after 9/11? Of course not. It took 15 years, and three full presidential cycles, before they were ready to turn to the God-Emperor, and even then it was a close-run thing.
>National electorates are like very large ships. It takes them a while to change direction. But, once they genuinely turn - and I am not counting choosing one color faction of the bi-factional ruling party instead of the other - that’s when real and substantive change can take place.
They call that emphatic?
Hillary spotted in Manhatten bar with line of shotglasses in front of her and bottle of cheap gin muttering, 65%, 65%... pffft.
But FReepers, he’s a centrist! Just a nice moderate. What could go wrong?
projections!!! They are doing the same thing there as they did here with America and Trump...
Go.Le Pen.Go!!! Make France Great Again!!!
France is finished. They will be sorry.
Bad news.
Agreed, it’s a sad day for France.
Well one less nation to have to care about what happens to its people.
Sweden, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, and now the new Zone Occupée.
In twenty years France will be Islamic.
In twenty years France will be Islamic.
RIP France. Thank goodness Hillary didn’t win the election.
Adieu.
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