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Macron wins French presidency by emphatic margin: projections
Reuters ^ | May 7, 2017 | Sudip-Kar Gupta

Posted on 05/07/2017 11:13:47 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France on Sunday with a business-friendly vision of European integration, defeating Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who threatened to take France out of the European Union, early projections showed.

The centrist's emphatic victory, which also smashed the dominance of France’s mainstream parties, will bring huge relief to European allies who had feared another populist upheaval to follow Britain's vote to quit the EU and Donald Trump's election as U.S. president.

The 39-year-old former investment banker, who served for two years as economy minister but has never previously held elected office, will now become France's youngest leader since Napoleon with a promise to transcend outdated left-right divisions.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cestlamort; elections; europejihad; france; franceelection; globalism; lepen; macron; macronwins; muslims
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To: Lisbon1940

When did a US presidential candidate ever get 65% of the vote.


101 posted on 05/07/2017 12:27:43 PM PDT by FewsOrange
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Zero will most likely think he influenced the election with his Ad.


102 posted on 05/07/2017 12:28:10 PM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Took my grandson to France last month and found it, in the areas we visited, pretty much unchanged from when I was last there in 2010. I’m very glad we went as I would never risk it after this French debacle plays out.


103 posted on 05/07/2017 12:28:12 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Ultimately, the globals had to have this win. How much was fraud and how much was blind French stupidity, we’ll never know.

Invest in hijabs.


104 posted on 05/07/2017 12:29:24 PM PDT by Kalamata
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

It hurt Marine Le Pen that her father, the founder of her political party said that she hasn’t got what it takes to be president. Many National Front party members are loyal to Mr. Le Pen and stayed home.
Turn out was the lowest in 40 years.


105 posted on 05/07/2017 12:31:51 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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To: FewsOrange

Not in modern times, and such would be unlikely to ever happen. If it did, it would be a sweep or near-sweep of the Electoral College.

I need to see real numbers from the French electoral commission before I can really call it though. Those numbers look so fishy.

Also the regional braekdown will be one worth seeing. Did Macron win it on the backs of Paris? If France minus Paris went for Le Pen (or at least split) then the urban-rural split is enormous still.


106 posted on 05/07/2017 12:32:08 PM PDT by SouthernerFromTheNorth
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To: conservative98

Vive la “Charles Hebdo,” Bastille Day, Nice, Fr, Bataclaan Theatre, Paris, Fr!


107 posted on 05/07/2017 12:34:29 PM PDT by zerosix ( Native Sunflower)
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To: heights

It won’t take 20...


108 posted on 05/07/2017 12:35:22 PM PDT by NOVACPA
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Never again will I defend France or the French. France surrendered to the Islamic globalists. FU France.


109 posted on 05/07/2017 12:39:13 PM PDT by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: dfwgator

That is the picture of France Today.


110 posted on 05/07/2017 12:41:24 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump++)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/861300169438113793

@realDonaldTrump
Congratulations to Emmanuel Macron on his big win today as the next President of France. I look very much forward to working with him!


111 posted on 05/07/2017 12:41:58 PM PDT by FewsOrange
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Have the French ever won anything of significance since Napoleon Bonaparte’s days? Even he got rolled in the end.


112 posted on 05/07/2017 12:42:54 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: All

Live results commune by commune and department by department:

http://www.lemonde.fr/data/france/presidentielle-2017/

Departments would be roughly equivalent to a county, while communes are roughly equivalent to a township or city. The state-level government in France is the region, but there is no polling done with them.


113 posted on 05/07/2017 12:43:01 PM PDT by SouthernerFromTheNorth
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Will the last French citizen out of France turn off the lights...heading back to the dark ages...


114 posted on 05/07/2017 12:44:53 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: Kickass Conservative

At least if Britain gets their shit together they can dump their Islamic crazies onto France.


115 posted on 05/07/2017 12:46:00 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, that it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: Kriggerel

You will know when Mrs. Macaroni, the first grandlady, begins wearing a hijab.


116 posted on 05/07/2017 12:46:04 PM PDT by TheDon (MAGA!)
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To: SouthernerFromTheNorth

So only two ‘communes’ have been counted??


117 posted on 05/07/2017 12:47:28 PM PDT by txhurl (BOOM BOOM! - what is it - :)
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To: VanDeKoik

>>>Men dead for over 200 years still have to work to keep our asses out of the fire<<<

The Left is doing their damnedest to vilify those Brave and dare I say it, Progressive thinkers of their time.

Of course they were Progressive in their view of Individual Freedom, Governance and Self Determination, a far cry from the so called Progressives of today.


118 posted on 05/07/2017 12:48:17 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

And the liars at MSNBC called him “pro-business”.
Right....


119 posted on 05/07/2017 12:51:29 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: txhurl

Two departments are fully counted. Clicking in can view areas with communes outstanding still.

From what I can see, Le Pen did best in the northeastern areas (east of Paris) and some southern areas. Macron dominated Paris and the west (particularly Brittany) which is not surprising, since Brittany is like old New England in many ways.

The overseas departments are mostly in as well, they are the areas on the bottom of the map.


120 posted on 05/07/2017 12:51:31 PM PDT by SouthernerFromTheNorth
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