Posted on 11/27/2016 4:41:51 PM PST by MtnClimber
On Sunday night, as the returns were being counted in the first round of the French presidential primary for the conservative Les Républicains party, the nation’s political landscape shuddered not once but twice. Taking by surprise commentators and pollsters, former Prime Minister François Fillon came in first with 44 percent of the vote, outdistancing the favorite, former Prime Minister Alain Juppé. But -- and here the earth shifted a second time -- he also doubled the score of his onetime boss, former President Nicolas Sarkozy, who finished a distant third.
Overnight, Nicolas Sarkozy -- who for better and worse had dominated the French political scene for nearly two decades -- became history, while the man he condescendingly referred to as his “collaborator” became France’s future.
During the five years he served as prime minister, Fillon was widely seen as the brake to the bling-blinging of his boss. Stolid, steady, and sturdy, Fillon offered a soothing contrast to the sharp elbows and jutting jaws that marked Sarkozy’s confrontational approach to politics. Either unable or unwilling to turn politics into performance, governance into spectacle, Fillon at times was dismissed as “Mister Nobody.”
But, of course, only a Mister Somebody can win, as did Fillon, nearly half of the four million votes cast in the conservative primary.
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France needs to elect a concervative leader and then follow Britains lead and Frexit.
Marine Le Pen will drain the Muslim swamp in France.
remember when people called French Fries, Freedom Fries? The French are not as weak as we thought!
Make France Great and Muslim Free Again!
Any political not vetted and proven as sufficiently commiescum will be tarred and feathered as a nazi.
Anyone not communist is a nazi according to the commiescum, after all.
People who should know better will fall for the tarring, again, as they always have, because they’re incapable of relating cause to effect over time, still.
A small part of me wants to weep at the simple minded fools who still believe there’s any peaceful path through this mess created the left and fostered by those Good Men who’ve done exactly squat to prevent the depredations and destructionism of the left.
Le Pen for prez.
from another article:
If Front National leader Marine le Pen wins in May she will lead France out of the euro and the European Union, which will then cease to exist
Unfortunately Lepen opposes Fillon’s small government and is getting good support from communists and civil servants
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