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previously held elected office, will now become France's youngest leader since Napoleon with a promise to transcend outdated left-right divisions.
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Problem with France is...it’s full of French.
The next Dem that takes the WH will win with 100% of the vote ...
So France elected a Rump-Ranger to run the country?
Never. Largest % was Johnson vs. Goldwater with 61.05%.
And they will have all the nuclear weapons they need to force their ideology on the rest of world....
France has voted to commit national suicide.
Bonne nuit France
What a fraud. Rigged outcome. No huge groundswellf of support for Maricon (deliberate spelling error) Notice the media coverage which does its best to portray large cross with rich camera angles. Why no overhead shots to showcase the huge crowds? Because they don’t exist.
Trump was never down 20 percent or more against hillary this close to the generals :(
Bye Bye France.... I see the country descending into complete chaos within 10 years.
Muslims make up 1 percent of the US.
What are your facts backing up your statement?
Just wondering :)
Are you planning on building a land mass to the US from the ME?
Your statement is the equivalent of saying W Europe is on the same course regarding Mexicans.
I also see you have little faith or Never had faith in our New President.
If that is true, then the French deserve what they get.
Well they have a ‘new flag’ now and it will be worse than Germany...I hope Merkle can handle both countries...
I do find it funny that President Trump tweeted his congratulations and will work with him...ha, ha, I'll bet he will work with him, President Trump will work him over!!!
Trump was never down 20 or more at any time after the primaries started (before that non-responses can taint results badly).
That is a good perspective .
....and a much shorter trip to deliver them...
I don’t. They had a choice, they chose. So what happens after this and it will probably be a lot and it will probably be all bad, but they chose it.
Since we started separating out the popular vote from the Electoral vote in 1824 no candidate has ever received greater than 61% of the popular vote:
Franklin Roosevelt in 1936, Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Richard Nixon in 1972. Warren G. Harding received 60% in 1920.
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