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.
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The French vote on paper ballots which are compiled manually.
I sincerely hope so.
I have to say, the French don’t mess around with their elections. We should envy their election integrity measures.
They do not allow mail in voting except under extremely limited circumstances and there is a VERY strict chain of custody of those ballots.
They only allow paper ballots - no computers.
When the ballots are counted there are members of at least 2 of the contesting parties on either side of the ballot counter - close enough to read each ballot. If either of them objects to a ballot then it goes into the disputed box and that must be adjudicated by a multiparty committee.
If only our elections were run so cleanly and so honestly.
I should add....with French elections, you have to vote in person on election day. That’s it.
The count is announced that evening.
Has the news media ever referred to a political candidate as “hard left”?
It will be wonderful to get rid of this Macaroon. Married to his high school teacher.
Always the "hard-right" or "far-right" label without telling us what they mean by that.
Probably.
“One Word: D O M I N I O N”
A few French words:
” Liberté, égalité, fraternité, ou la mort!” (”Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death!”)
The Spiked Magazine is owned by the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain.
It’s a pretty shitty outlet when it comes to electoral politics. It’s loonies and their wishful thinking.
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