Posted on 04/23/2017 12:47:10 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
French voters will finally be able to vote for a new president today. They've suffered for years under the less than inspiring leadership of socialist Francois Hollande, but today they take the first step to replacing him with someone else -- someone better.
Or not, of course. After all, although two candidates -- Francois Fillon and Marine Le Pen -- are considered to be "conservative," they are not exactly the favorites to win the election. In Fillon's case, even proceeding to the second round may prove impossible.
The first round of France's presidential election only serves to separate the top two from all other contenders. According to the most recent polls, this means that former socialist turned leftist liberal Emmanuel Macron and Front National leader Marine Le Pen will have to fight it out between themselves in the second round.
POLL GRAPH
Note the difference, however, between Macron and Le Pen on the one hand, and Francois Fillon (of the Republicans) and Jean-Luc Mélenchon (far-left party) on the other. Four candidates are within five percentage points of each other. The difference between Le Pen, Fillon and Mélenchon is even smaller: a mere three percentage points. This means that they are within the margin of error. Although Macron is considered to be the favorite to win, last-minute deciders hold his fate in their hands. If the terror attack on a police officer in France a few days ago has an effect, it could very well catapult Le Pen and Fillon to the front.
In other words, even the hands-down favorite, Macron, can't be sure he'll compete in the second round.
That is all terribly exciting, of course, but there's also bad news: apart from Francois Fillon, none of the other candidates are actual conservatives.
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The French are gonna vote for whoever will let in the most muslims.
Watch.
“Conservative” in France = slightly to the left of Chirac
France has become a hopeless quagmire. They will go the way of Venezuela when it is all through. Vive la France will be a hollow expression.
What France and all European countries need now are nationalists. Otherwise debates over left vs. right will be moot.
Those 500k extra ballots sent to overseas Frenchmen may well decide the election. They seem designed to knock out Le Pen in the first round.
Exactly. Those terms mean different things there then here. In the US both Theresa May and Angela Merkel would be Hillary Clinton Democrats. Take away immigration and Le Pen is little different from Bernie Sanders. The only remotely "conservative" candidate is Fillon.
Fillon like LePen is suffering a legal witch hunt, but the french right is the stupid party like the GOP, and Fillon will probably not lend support to LePen in her struggle against the “rule of the Judges”
I believe LePen is the best, but the French conservatives are slightly to the right of Diane Fienstien.
To be fair, Marine Le Pen’s daughter is actually closer in terms of conservativism to most American conservatives, certainly a lot more conservative than her mom. You should know her, she spoke at CPAC recently and strongly supported Trump and advocated restoring France after May 1968 basically destroyed it as a country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn80bxXr8eQ
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