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Forget Trump. Forget Brexit. A Le Pen win on Sunday could be the West’s biggest shock this century
The Toronto Star ^ | May 5, 2017 | Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post

Posted on 05/05/2017 11:46:59 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

If Marine Le Pen wins, it’s almost certainly the end of the EU, experts say — and that could bring economic and political turmoil unlike anything the West has seen in decades.

Forget Britain’s vote for Brexit. Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s November win. If Marine Le Pen somehow defeats Emmanuel Macron in France’s presidential runoff vote on Sunday, it may be the biggest electoral shock in the West so far this century.

A win by the leader of the French far right would see a leading European nation select a president emphatically opposed to globalization and integration, friendly to authoritarian Russia and tethered to a party, the National Front, that is steeped in a history of neo-fascism, extremism and bigotry. It could prefigure the dissolution of the European Union, trigger new economic chaos and hammer home the last nail in the coffin of an already ailing liberal order.

A Le Pen victory “means the collapse of the EU, because the EU without France doesn’t make any sense,” Gerard Araud, France’s ambassador in Washington, said in a conversation with The Washington Post earlier this year. “And it means the collapse of the euro and a financial crisis, which will have consequences throughout the world.”

It’s still an unlikely outcome.....

(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brexit; france; franceelection; lepen; thewest; trump
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To: Sacajaweau

“Obama has interfered in this election by endorsing Macron.”

Yes he did. No hacking either, (that we’re privy to), he did it in the open! Soros must have told him to make it happen!

I predict she wil win, and handily.


81 posted on 05/05/2017 9:05:21 PM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: DannyTN

How you feeling about it now?


82 posted on 05/07/2017 11:27:54 AM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: TexasGunLover

Are the results in yet? I’m seeing estimates, but I don’t know they are based on.

Not giving up until it’s over.


83 posted on 05/07/2017 2:14:32 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: TexasGunLover

Are the results in yet? I’m seeing estimates, but I don’t know they are based on.

Not giving up until it’s over.


84 posted on 05/07/2017 2:14:33 PM PDT by DannyTN
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85 posted on 05/07/2017 2:17:57 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: DannyTN
Yeah. It isn't ​close.
86 posted on 05/07/2017 7:08:20 PM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: Stentor

I predict his rule won’t be long, he’ll be more unpopular than even Hollande before too long.


87 posted on 05/07/2017 7:11:38 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: TexasGunLover

Well dang. I guess Merkel is running France for a while.


88 posted on 05/08/2017 12:48:58 PM PDT by DannyTN
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