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Could Macron’s arrogance cost him the election?
Spiked ^ | 4/9/2022 | Fraser Myers

Posted on 04/09/2022 10:30:28 AM PDT by mac_truck

Panic has set in. As the first round of the French presidential election approaches, Emmanuel Macron’s re-election has suddenly been thrown into doubt.

A series of recent polls has put the hard-right Marine Le Pen within spitting distance of the Élysée Palace. This has rattled the Macron campaign, spooked the markets and will no doubt have set alarm bells ringing in Brussels, too.

The Le Pen surge feels like it has come from nowhere. A month ago, she was trailing Macron by around 10 percentage points. Now she looks the most likely candidate to face Macron in the second round of voting – and polling on the second round has a Le Pen victory within the margin of error. Le Pen’s polling is far more favourable than it was in the run-up to the last election, in 2017, when Macron trounced her by 66 per cent to 34 per cent.

This was not part of the plan. Macron was expected to cruise confidently to victory. So convinced was he of his recoronation, he has barely spent any time on the campaign trail. Macron only officially declared his candidacy for re-election at the beginning of last month. Though there was never any doubt he would run again, the repeated delays were a symptom of his aloofness to the small, inconvenient matter of domestic politics. His first rally of the campaign was held only last Saturday.

(Excerpt) Read more at spiked-online.com ...


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1 posted on 04/09/2022 10:30:28 AM PDT by mac_truck
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I just can’t imagine Macron being allowed to lose.


2 posted on 04/09/2022 10:35:47 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Dominion — or whatever company they use — is about to make a pile of money.


3 posted on 04/09/2022 10:39:17 AM PDT by mvonfr
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4053618/posts


4 posted on 04/09/2022 10:41:26 AM PDT by TheConservator (Beware the tyranny of the woke mob. There has never been a greater threat to liberty.)
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Hopefully…but the deep state/global cabal won’t allow that to happen…


5 posted on 04/09/2022 10:43:46 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: mac_truck

Is Le Pen really hard right or just a typical lefty French women who happens to be a nationalist?


6 posted on 04/09/2022 10:46:43 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: mac_truck

He must have taken ‘arrogance’ lessons from “O’Bozo”.

It worked for HIM!!


7 posted on 04/09/2022 10:48:43 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: dljordan
Is Le Pen really hard right or just a typical lefty French women who happens to be a nationalist?

Depends on who you ask...she's definitely considered an outsider to the establishment and her National Front party is generally considered to be on the right in France.

8 posted on 04/09/2022 10:53:43 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: mac_truck
Could Macron’s arrogance cost him the election?

Always love it, when a journalist or editor gets writer's block so bad, that they have to call Captain Obvious for help with a headline...

;>)

9 posted on 04/09/2022 10:59:51 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: mac_truck

Sure hope so. I remember how a French work colleague threw a hissy fit when her old man gave them a scare 20 or so years ago. Swore he would leave France, which of course they never do.


10 posted on 04/09/2022 11:00:42 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: mac_truck

When is the election?


11 posted on 04/09/2022 11:03:37 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: TheConservator

That is the most shocking and consequential headline I have seen about European affairs in quite some time. With all the screaming and crying over manipulated day-to-day events people don’t realize their basic freedoms are being eroded quickly.


12 posted on 04/09/2022 11:06:01 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: ifinnegan

Tomorrow. I hope LePen wins, if anything for the entertainment value as Brussels flies into a tizzy.


13 posted on 04/09/2022 11:07:34 AM PDT by packagingguy
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Thanks.

That’s pretty much tonight for us.

I’m curious to see.


14 posted on 04/09/2022 11:11:26 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: TnTnTn

“..the deep state/global cabal won’t allow that to happen…”

Exactly. The WEF will get Dominion, or whatever they use there, to ensure Macron stays in “good standing”.
A Le Pen win would definitely throw a wrench in their NWO plans.


15 posted on 04/09/2022 11:19:13 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: ifinnegan

First round is tomorrow...then a runoff between the top two candidates set for Apr 24th.


16 posted on 04/09/2022 11:27:16 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: mac_truck
A "united" Europe is slowly falling apart, before our very eyes. But it's not just western Europe now, it's a long-term phenomenon worldwide: The 20th century was the era of massive continental-sized powers. The 21st century is seeing the unraveling of these once-great powers.
17 posted on 04/09/2022 11:29:17 AM PDT by Alvin Diogenes
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To: mac_truck

Macron’s stated goal was to piss the French people off.. The anti-vax French people that is.


18 posted on 04/09/2022 11:33:17 AM PDT by freespirit2012
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To: mac_truck

One Word: D O M I N I O N


19 posted on 04/09/2022 11:45:14 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Who is John Galt?

I see it this way: here’s a writer with just enough data to have a hunch, but not enough to actually back up a bold claim. So, instead of digging in, and doing the hard analysis that might yield the solid evidence needed to state the headline as a claim, they punted, and put it as a question, instead.


20 posted on 04/09/2022 12:05:31 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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