Le Pen is a long shot, but Trump was also a long shot.
Can foreigners donate to a French politician?
The commies are out.
Two things: anybody else weirded out by Macron marrying his former teacher? She’s only 25 years older.
Will there be a debate between LePen and Macron? If so, this gives LePen the best chance to expose her opponents inexperience while showing that she’s fairly moderate...and not some far right lunatic.
I can’t wait for the 20% that didn’t vote to vote for LePenn.
I’ve noticed that many reporters always pronounce Macrons name as the French say it (Mah cruhn) but then pronounce Marine Le Pen just as you’d expect an average person in the US would (MA reene rather than ... mah REENE).
Personally I think we should say then all the USA way .... after all we say they speak French, not Frances, and we say. Paris not PahREE. So as far as I’m concerned, Macron rhymes with Akron.
AP is characterizing this election as “extreme right” Le Pen vs “centrist” Macron. But until a few years ago Macron was a Socialist which, I suppose, is not that bad in France but anyone who is a nationalist is “extreme right” according to AP and their ilk.
As always, the MSM labelling of Marine Lepen as “extreme right” is dead wrong. She is environmentalist, economically collectivist and interventionnist and socially leftist (she lives with a “companion” without marrying him, she is pro-abortion and pro gay marriage).
Like many French, I’ll vote for her at the run-off even knowing that she has no chance against Macron just to show the middle finger to the establishment.
But Macron winning the presidency is only part of the story, there are the legislative elections one month later which will decide the prime minister who holds a lot of executive power. It’s not at all sure Macron’s out-of-the-blue party will have a majority of seats, so the prime minister may well be someone from the Right which will lead to a “cohabitation” government, a status quo which will worsen even more the economic and social situation of France. Indeed, we have the government we deserve.
Dewey Defeats Truman!
Marine Le Penn can’t destroy France. That has already happened.
Her task would be to rebuild France from the ashes