As expected, in the France election no candidate achieved 50% of the vote. That sets up a runoff election fifteen days from now to determine who will be the next president. Reuters Article Here – Guardian/MSM Article Here
In the primary race the final results are not yet announced; however, current President Emmanuel Macron has approximately 28% of the vote, and challenger Marine Le Pen has around 24% of the vote. No other candidate was close enough to change the top two outcome.
In the head-to-head matchup, the race is essentially tied, well within the margin of polling error (as above). Interestingly, Le Pen has flipped the 18-to-34-year age bracket and now holds majority support in the younger voting bloc. Perhaps, due to young French citizens feeling the outcomes of the professional political left thirsting for unilateral power during COVID.
There was around a 65% voter turnout according to most early analysts. The general election is essentially a coin toss based on the current polling. The final vote to determine the winner will take place April 24th. It will be a very closely watched event by leaders around the world. A Le Pen victory would be seismic in the world of politics, akin to Trump’s victory in 2016, and that outcome is a strong possibility.
The professional political left are apoplectic.
(BBC Opinion) – Estimations from round one show how tactical voting rewrote the electoral map.
Voters gathered into three broad camps: Macron, the far-right and the far-left. In the last days of campaigning, many people who were considering other candidates finally decided that they would rather back a frontrunner.
There was thus a big transfer of votes from Éric Zemmour – the hard-right nationalist pundit – to the camp of Marine Le Pen. Some right-wingers in the conservative Republicans party may have done the same.
On the left, voters decided that neither the Socialist Anne Hidalgo nor the Green Yannick Jadot could ever make it into round two. So they shifted massively to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, simply to keep a leftist in the race. This despite many Socialists and Greens actively disliking the man.
And in the centre, many who would normally have chosen the Republicans’ Valérie Pécresse will have plumped instead for the incumbent. Why? Because they were genuinely afraid that Le Pen and/or Mélenchon were coming up too strong from behind.
The result means two things.
One is the utter devastation facing France’s two traditional parties of government since 1958 – the conservative right, and the socialist left. This was a process started by Macron five years ago, but now comprehensively complete.
Both parties’ candidates – and certainly the Socialists’ Anne Hidalgo – may have failed to reach the 5% threshold, which allows them to claim back election costs. The price tag will be millions of euros, but worse is the ignominy. We can expect serious internal ructions.
Macron has so engineered it that the divide in French politics is now definitively the one that he sought: between his own “realistic centrism” and “openness to the world” and the “extremism” of his opponents. The “nationalist extremism” of Le Pen and the “utopian extremism” of Mélenchon. (read more)
Nationalism -vs- Globalism
During his pandemic response, Macron went totally overboard. He was the first one to announce (July 2021) that a vaccine passport would be needed in order to shop, drink, eat at restaurants, travel or worship. Many other western, fascist totalitarian dictators, the new democracy leaders, followed soon thereafter. Macron’s ideological fiats may come back to haunt him. We can hope. The French people were not happy with this unilateral decision, and it showed people how quickly some leaders will become dictators.
President Macron took that dictatorship even one step further in January of this year, and this is likely the biggest problem for him right now. In January he announced that any unvaccinated person was “irresponsible” and therefore “no longer a citizen.”
Macron told Le Parisien that he had decided to act against the non-vaccinated, by “limiting as much as possible their access to social life activity”. “The unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And so we will continue to do so, to the bitter end. That’s the strategy,” the head of state said. “When my freedom comes to threaten that of other people, I become irresponsible. An irresponsible person is no longer a citizen.”
“I am not going to put them in prison, I am not going to forcibly vaccinate them,” Macron went on. “Therefore you have to say to them: from January 15 you can no longer go to a restaurant, you can no longer go for a drink, you can no longer go for a coffee, you can no longer go to the theatre, you can no longer go to the cinema,” the president said. (read more)
That extremist approach is the opening Marine Le Pen now has in front of her – to expose Emmanuel Macron as the installed, WEF approved, multicultural economic globalist everyone knows him to be.
Macron asked for it imo
I hope he goes down
However … what does it say if he wins!? What does it tell you about your fellow citizens?
Or that it would even be close after all the things he has done to the French people.
Jean-Marie Le Pen in His Own Words
https://www.amren.com/news/2022/04/jean-marie-le-pen-quotes-national-front/
Compared to her father Marine is softer on many issues and she even excluded him from the party some years ago, this have not been bad for her in the polls though and if I was a french troll I would certainly vote for her.
I just spoke to a friend of mine in the south of France. He said that if the truth were known and the election were fair (which he said it was not), Macron received about the same actual percentage of real votes that Biden did. He said that the election was rigged and rigged badly. He holds little hope of France surviving.
Of course they are rigged.Jacques Attali is the King/Queen maker,the French George Soros,Bill Gates rolled in one
I have to totally disagree, Macron is more popular than you think. it’s actually quite difficult to rig a national election by ballot stuffing in France. Votes are counted by hand by citizens in public.
Macron has not very good local roots. The places where it is easier to ballot stuff AREN’T places he has power. The north of France, ex communist and socialist is now MLP. The south of France is MLP. The suburbs are Mélenchon, the Islamist candidate.
Most of the candidates called for votes for Macron. The conservative candidate took exactly 19 minutes to do it. The real reason Macron will easily be re-elected is that most people will vote for him rather than MLP. The real problem in France is no matter what you vote, you get Woke Globalist. Which is why abstention was huge by French standards.
MLP’s platform is better than last time, but she’s not actually a very good politician.
I have to totally disagree with your disagreement, and the French aren’t looking for ‘very good politicians’ who will continue to lie to them like Macron does. The French are looking for a good leader. Which is all irrelevant to this production of pretend ‘democracy’. They will install whoever is willing to continue to drive France to economic destruction while promoting “vaccine” passports that will control the population for their totalitarian great reset, world order, and that person will continue to be Macron. Of course engineered to appear a marginally close election, like all rigged electronic elections are.
The French ARE looking for for good politicians . Point is current crop are rubbish. The two talented here are Macron and Mélenchon.
This is NOT an electronic election. Votes are single pieces of paper (no hanging chads) hand counted in public.
This is not a close election.
ahhh ^^^^^^^^^^ the vote counters….
They are both graduates of the WEC Marxist training program. So what’s the difference?
Macron is a man of the political left. The article is no different than the American Pravda in how they dishonestly frame the discussion.
Best of luck, Le Pen.
70% of the French didn’t want Macron. That gives Le Pen a good chance.
Macron actions show he has contempt for most of Frances citizens. Certainly the French people aren’t that stupid, or do they have ‘Stockholm Syndrome’? If Macron is re-elected, it will be affirmation of his fascist actions and things will get even worse in France.
The trouble with France is it’s so…French.
Macron is a globalist. The problem, I see is Le Pen is far from a conservative icon. Either of the two are deeply flawed, from an American point of view.
The enemy of our enemy, in this case, is not our friend.
Yeah let’s not make the same mistake that we made with Boris Johnson who openly snubbed Trump the first chance he got. Good luck France but I’m not expecting much.
And I can tell you just by seeing those supposed numbers of 49% and 51% that it is a rigged “Dominion” type election as about everyone we’ve seen in the last 10 to 20 years. They will install Macron. You can be 100% sure on that. Realistically Macron should be at under 30% so yeah, those are manufactured numbers there.
France is lost and will never be found. The obvious question here is who or what machine(s) will be counting the votes.
Macron is 44 and his “wife” will be 69 on Wednesday.
I know the French are weird, but seriously?
I’m not informed on French Politics, maybe someone can help… Why is this even close? The unions of France? Macron promises the unions sweetheart deals?
French socialism programs after WWII which grew to include every sector of the economy….Union Protests are a way of life in France, Government control of the banking system is no problem for the French. The only thing that does seem to rile them into action is France’s immigration policies that let immigrants in from the ME and Africa after the war to help with the loss of population but that backfired as we have seen with the riots in Paris that started in the Muslim areas of St. Denis and spread throughout France. This is the platform Le Penn is the strongest on and where her support has always thrived. The French can take being ruled by the French but their tolerance stops there. This is where the USA will be in 5 year.
Given that politics tends to have a world wide trend, and with the upcoming shellacking that the Dems are going to get in November in the US, I think that Le Pen has a good chance of winning.
*If votes are counted properly, the Dems will get a shellacking. I have serious questions as to the veracity of our elections.