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Outsiders Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen sweep to victory as France kicks out old guard: Europhile newcomer narrowly wins first vote to take on far-Right's Madame Frexit for the presidency
2017-04-24
[DailyMail]
  • Far-right leader Marine Le Pen and independent centrist Emmanuel Macron have made it to the second round

  • Republican candidate Francois Fillon conceded after initial results showed he achieved 19.5 per cent

  • Far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon refused to concede until final results of first-round vote announced

  • France's Prime Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, has called on voters to support Macron instead of Le Pen

  • This is the first time in 60 years none of France's mainstream parties have entered the second round

  • Riots have broken out in Nantes and Paris' Place de la Bastille - the birthplace of the French Revolution
According to La Belle France's Interior Ministry, 46 million people voted in the first stage of the elections which knocked the traditional Right and Left parties out of the running for the first time in 60 years.

Macron achieved 23.8 per cent of the votes, followed by Le Pen with 21.5 per cent.

But it is thought that Le Pen's chances of winning the second round are limited as supporters for Republican candidate Francois Fillon, who conceded but has gained 19.9 per cent of the votes, will support Macron.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  Macron; cheesy.
Posted by: charger   2017-04-24 20:19  

#3  "independent centrist"

My bullshit meter went off too.
Posted by: Raj   2017-04-24 18:10  

#2  Marine Le Pen stepped down on Monday as head of France’s National Front Party, a move experts say is one meant to position her so as to embrace a wider framework of voters, per Fox News.
The move comes after a split election result over the weekend, which means Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron will face one another in a runoff in May.

Check it out:

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“Tonight, I am no longer the president of the National Front. I am the presidential candidate,” she said on French public television news.

Le Pen has said in the past that she is not a candidate of her party, and made that point when she rolled out her platform in February, saying the measures she was espousing were not her party’s, but her own.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2017-04-24 16:20  

#1  "independent centrist" = establishment stooge in the Cameron mould/mold.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-04-24 10:07  

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