e Pen Triumphs Over Macron in EU Election Exit Poll, Calls for Fresh National Elections

Populist leader Marine Le Pen and her Rassemblement National (National Rally, or RN) have triumphed over sitting French president Emmanuel Macron in the European Parliament elections, according to exit polls.

Ms Le Pen declared victory following exit polls showing the RN winning around 24 per cent of the vote, compared to Macron’s La Republique En Marche! (LREM) who, according to projections, has come in second with 22.5 percent of the vote, French newspaper Le Figaro reports.

Declaring victory, the RN leader said, “The trust we have been given by the French in designating us as the first party in France but especially as that of the future alternation is an immense honour.”

She went on to call for Macron to dissolve the French parliament, saying “it is up to the President of the Republic to draw the consequences” and calling for fresh elections, stating that Macron put his own presidency on the line in the vote.

Previously, Le Pen had called the European elections a referendum on the presidency of Macron and called on him to resign from office if his party were not able to win.

“So it becomes a referendum for or against Emmanuel Macron, this European election. I accept that, but in these conditions, he must do as General De Gaulle: if he loses this election, then he will have to leave,” she said earlier this month.

23-year-old Jordan Bardella, the leading European Parliament candidate for the RN, echoed Le Pen’s call for fresh parliamentary elections, declaring: “The president will not be able to govern against the interests of the French during the second half of his quinquennium, which is why we are asking him to dissolve the National Assembly.”

I have been trying to figure why leftists in the Western world are turning more and more toward anti-Semitism and pro Arab sympathies. Jews have a long history of association with socialism and therefore one might assume that they would be welcomed for that reason in the ranks of leftists. History doesn’t always conform to presumption, Soviet Russia was not always kind to Jews.

Jews have been and historically stiffnecked people, and in the age of leftist collectivization, anything that upholds individual integrity is to be damned.

The leftists are making common cause against the Western world with Arabs and the price of admission to that club is apparently anti-Semitism, or at least being anti-Israeli.

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two words Arab money

It buys a lot of goodwill and positive press, it funds organizations that have marching orders.

In the fifties and sixties and seventies Jewish interests had money and connections in publishing, presses, and tv and cinema. They were able to manage public perception. Take the Ann Frank Story as an example. My Jewish step grandfather said at the time of its publishing that it was a managed diary. It was managed for promotion and sympathy. recently the un-redacted version came out, IIRC. It would not have been as sympathetic.

Now Jewish connections are with older media sources that are losing power and the Arabs/Islamics are using newer sources and have their own version of the JDL in Cair and others. They have also, like the Jews, cast themselves as a victim group. Actually come to think of it they are following the Jewish model to a T. Except for that overt threatening component of terrorism vs the subtler form Mossod.

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