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Macron to become next French president after beating back Le Pen and her populist tide
washington post ^ | May 7, 2017 | Griff Witte, James McAuley and Isaac Stanley-Becker

Posted on 05/07/2017 1:49:45 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie

PARIS — France on Sunday shrugged off the siren call of right-wing populism that enchanted voters in the United States and United Kingdom, rejecting anti-E.U. firebrand Marine Le Pen and choosing as its next president Emmanuel Macron, a centrist political neophyte who has pledged to revive both his struggling country and the flailing continent.

The result brought to a close a tumultuous and polarized campaign that defied prediction at nearly every turn, though not at the end. Pre-election polls had forecast a sizable Macron victory, and he appeared to have delivered, with projections issued after polls closed showing him with around 65 percent of the vote.

In a speech to the nation, Macron said the country had “turned a new page in our long history. I want it to be a page of renewed hope and trust.”

The president-elect also reached out to Le Pen voters, saying he could understand their anger, while vowing to defend both France and Europe. “This is our civilization that’s at stake, our way of life,” he said.

Macron was expected to speak again later Sunday night in the grand courtyard of Paris’s Louvre Museum, where news of his win spawned raucous cheers among thousands of flag-waving Macron backers.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 4threich; france; lepen; macron; mommyissues; vaguelygay; victory4merkle
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To: fortheDeclaration

There will not be any elections once sharia law is established.


61 posted on 05/07/2017 5:48:28 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: JohnBrowdie

He is not centrist, and she is not right-wing.


62 posted on 05/07/2017 5:48:30 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism is the denial of human nature.)
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To: Kalamata

This march towards communism will surely be repeated here in the USA unless steps are taken to disenfranchise the parasite class.

Will Trump be the beginning of the turning of the tide or a footnote?

Even Hitler was a able to make a rational case for the danger of democracy, universal suffrage, and its ultimate degeneration into Bolshevism.

“...democracy will in practice lead to the destruction of a people’s true values. And this also serves to explain how it is that people with a great past from the time when they surrender themselves to the unlimited, democratic rule of the masses slowly lose their former position; for the outstanding achievements of individuals...are now rendered practically ineffective through the oppression of mere numbers.”

“Democracy is the canal through which bolshevism lets its poisons flow into the separate countries and lets work there long enough for these infections to lead to a crippling of intelligence and of the force of resistance.”


63 posted on 05/07/2017 6:08:00 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Old Grumpy

I’ve never been there, but always hoped to go. What a shame.


64 posted on 05/08/2017 4:57:35 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: TTFlyer

No proposing doing anything. But not caring about what is going on with the Muzzie invasion of Western Europe is accepting it.


65 posted on 05/08/2017 8:04:49 AM PDT by doug from upland (Hey, traitor Democrats. I have a tree. I'm sure another FReeper has a rope.)
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To: Fantasywriter

Actually, they only admit they became lovers when he was 15, which is also the age of consent.

The old lady even said “no one will know when our story became a love story”, or similar, implying she statuatorily raped him even earlier.

Gross, and character defects like this used to preclude one from high office.


66 posted on 05/08/2017 1:16:47 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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To: T-Bone Texan

I had no idea. That’s unspeakable. Yuck!

Otoh, perhaps things have not been all sweetness and light for the molester. Macron is on a gay-male mailing list, and there is a rumor of a homosexual affair. Plus among the emails was found ample drug references including meth and designer drugs. It doesn’t add up to an attractive situation.


67 posted on 05/08/2017 1:28:18 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter

Macron is part of the pedophile elite.


68 posted on 05/08/2017 1:58:25 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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To: T-Bone Texan

Now that’s a scary thought! No wonder he had overwhelming support from banks, the Establishment, and other leftist leaders. What an evil age; I’m so thankful for Trump.


69 posted on 05/08/2017 2:12:55 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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