France 2017: Results Thread

[ApatheticAustrian]

lol....

#macronleaks was spread by the dc bureau chief of "Rebel Tv"/Rebel Media.....  interesting connections.

https://mobile.twitter.com/acoyne/status/860863007752146946

[ApatheticAustrian]

wikileaks' french lawyer is disgusted by the publishing of this nothingburger.

even the intercept isn't buying it.

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/06/no-macron-leaks-politically-motivated-hacking-not-whistleblowing/

[ApatheticAustrian]

Link to the lawyer?

it's included in the IC-story.

https://twitter.com/anatolium/status/860621768117153792

[ApatheticAustrian]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/06/did-macron-outsmart-campaign-hackers

[ApatheticAustrian]

But how's Macron doing in the crucial Waukesha County?

dave weigel is strong in ya.


btw....this sentiment drives me crazy:

https://twitter.com/anealla/status/861163639465816064

[ApatheticAustrian]

I think that Macron wins, but by 2-3 points, in my estimation.

you are misjudging the flow, but no problem, both sides do it.

[ApatheticAustrian]

that god damn electoral college is going to f***ck Macron, though, right bronz?

didn't someone here (antonio?) made a hypotheical EC for france....does someone know the results?

[ApatheticAustrian]

doesn't look very convincing.

[ApatheticAustrian]

she is the queen of hearts....

[ApatheticAustrian]

Not sure I catch your drift, but considering the state of the last thread I think its best to keep American politics (not posters, politics) out of this thread.

oh, i am just gloating about the fact, that nearly every big global news site has the french election front and center and breitbart is doing only a little side-headline about it. ^^

the french election was, after the US election, another big power battle between "west and east" and the outcome seems to look quite different.

[ApatheticAustrian]

jeanne dies again...sad.

[ApatheticAustrian]

question for the French posters - are the hardline National Frontistas going to revolt now?

Just like they would've when Trump won, right?

Oh, wait, NO. There's a thing called democracy. Americans and the French respect it.

he means inside the party.

[ApatheticAustrian]

hypocrisy in action

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/861282487162597381

[ApatheticAustrian]

france needs restrained economical liberalization - and the EU - at the same time, further integration, also regarding welfare policy.

[ApatheticAustrian]

if austria is relevant right now then only cause even a far-right-friendly country like austria rejected the far right since trump's technical victory and the rest of europe has followed through with it.

congratulations everyone, italy is my only mental problem child right now.

[ApatheticAustrian]

Omg, a black FN MP is on France 24 right now, that is very strange, why would a minority be a part of such filth.

they are always cause......black people are normal but muslims are not and bla....

and ofc, righties love identity politics, so those candidates usually are going public.

[ApatheticAustrian]

Time to get rid of the myth that nationalist choices always have better polling results than polls show. It actually works both ways: Brexit and Trump on one side but Le Pen and Hofer on the other. It only creates unpredictibility.

59-41 for Macron, with over 6 million votes counted, of some about 35 million expected.

Not just Le Pen and Hofer; according to this tweet by Nate Silver, this is the sixth European election in a row where the nationalist candidate under-performed their poll numbers.

It's wonderful to see the far-right sputtering in Europe and unable to even win a plurality in the American Presidential Election. However, part of the reason seems to be the co-opting of far-right rhetoric and policies by more mainstream parties, such as the Dutch VVD, the Republicans with Fillon in France, the Tories in the UK, and almost all mainstream parties in Denmark.

yeah, the new right is making progress and in-roads but over here we are much...curious...and feel russian influence more directly.

we europeans need an european identity and further integration to tackle our current problems, also regarding our welfare states, otherwise this won't end good.

[ApatheticAustrian]

Disgusting

pro-democracy, pro-republicanism, pro-liberalism, pro-human rights, pro-free trade, pro-minority rights......or summarized: pro-european. ^^

[ApatheticAustrian]

Haha so many leftists who claim Le Pen is a fascist. It's amazing how s*** like this continues

being a close putin ally is good enough anyway.

[ApatheticAustrian]

seems like the extreme-left and the extreme-right are clashing in strasbourg.


http://www.dna.fr/actualite/2017/05/07/les-forces-de-l-ordre-font-usage-de-bombes-lacrymogenes

[ApatheticAustrian]

What's up with Aisne swinging hard right? Hollande won it by 5 points but Le Pen leads by 11, but there's still a lot of vote to count.

This runoff is not between the left and the right.

btw, sorry for OT but since you commented several times critically about melenchon, could you maybe explain your scepticism regarding him as a principled leftie?

[ApatheticAustrian]

[ApatheticAustrian]

question....how does this work?

does EM now need to find willing candidates before the election or is "party voting" good enough?

[ApatheticAustrian]

ofc we would all be totally pissed, if russia would just have endorsed trump....

#not

[ApatheticAustrian]

hate-stalking the clintons (both hillary and chelsea) is soooo...strange. just ignore them, they aren't going to get any public office anyway.