Posted on 02/23/2017 12:38:04 AM PST by Nextrush
The leading centrist candidate in France's presidential election, Emmanuel Macron, has received a boost after allying with a veteran moderate.
He accepted the offer of an alliance from Francois Bayrou, another centrist and devout Roman Catholic.
Recent polls suggest support for Mr. Macron, tipped by many to win the election, has dropped slightly.
Two of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen's staff were detained on Wednesday as part of a financial inquiry.....
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Candidate Bayrou is backing out of the election, he polls around 5 percent. His vote added onto Macron's should help Macron pull ahead of Fillon to finish in second place behind Le Pen on April 23rd.
The hope of the elites is that Macron will beat Le Pen in the second round.
Marine Le Pen has steadily gained ground in second round polling reaching 43-44 percent against Fillon and 40-41 percent against Macron.
The elites figure Macron will do better against Le Pen, so this move by Bayrou.
Also, there is a corruption investigation targeting top aides of Marine Le Pen perfectly timed to hurt her.
Socialists are not “centrists” or “liberals,” they are socialists.
I laughed out loud at another article calling Macron a “rock star”.
The left media is so blatant in promoting candidates they want to win.
Macron is the Corporatist-Globalist “dream candidate” since he’s an ex-banker.
Like Michael Bloomberg said on his channel recently, “we need big banks”.
Yet another rigged system.
France....meh.
Most “socialist” parties in Europe are neoliberal parties that no longer advocate true socialist economics. Macron is a “liberal,” meaning his economic polices resemble what the Wall St. Journal editorial page would want more than socialism. Think Tony Blair. Like the WSJ editorial page, Macron is a hardcore open borders advocate. He’s probably the worst candidate on immigration the election. Genuine socialists in Europe will tend to at least admit that massive immigration can hurt workers, neoliberals maintain that immigration is 100% beneficial and has no drawbacks.
Macron is France’s version of Turdeau Jr.
There is a conspiracy to elect Macron. French authorities are targeting Fillon and LePen with BS charges and raids.
Go Fillon and LePen! **** Macron.
WSJ editorial page might be bad on some things like immigration but no, they are not nearly as far left as this so called “centrist”.
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