I’m very pleased to report that unlike the voters in the US, who allowed a Russian plant to infest our White House, and unlike voters in the UK, who fell for Russian propaganda on Brexit and put the extreme right wing or their Conservative Party in charge, French voter showed authentic intelligence by rejecting their Nazi version of Trump and Theresa May, Marine Le Pen, and electing Emmanuel Macron by a wide margin.
Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France on Sunday with a business-friendly vision of European integration, defeating Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who threatened to take France out of the European Union, early projections showed.
The centrist’s emphatic victory, which also smashed the dominance of France’s mainstream parties, will bring huge relief to European allies who had feared another populist upheaval to follow Britain’s vote to quit the EU and Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president.
Five projections, issued within minutes of polling stations closing at 8 p.m. (2 p.m. ET), showed Macron beating Le Pen by around 65 percent to 35 – a gap wider than the 20 or so percentage points that pre-election surveys had pointed to… [emphasis added]
From <Reuters>
Kudos to French voters. Thank you for reminding us how to…
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I just want to point out that Macron was up against hacking in this election. However, after Brexit snd Trump, he was expecting it, and had a strategy.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/7/1659800/-Macron-campaign-knew-the-hackers-were-coming-so-they-laid-a-trap-and-defeated-them
Blowback, if any, from voters went in his favor, not against him. Now, I realize he will be too busy being President to help us out. But I sure would love if the Democrats could hire some of his campaign staff. The computer experts.
Good info! Thanks!
YVW!
Macron ~ 65%
Le Pen ~ 35%
Now THAT'S the kind of landslide I wanted to see!
To see the "landslide", be patient, wait for it and you will be able to see it.
By the way, where did this "landslide" take place, what was the date?
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Mount Saint Helens. Don't know the date. That was my second guess. My first guess was Lassen, but that didn't pan out. From the film quality, I'd say NOT in the 1990's, but that's not my stomping ground, so I don't know all the dates.
Yep. It's the Mount St. Helens eruption on May 18, 1980 just before the plume of smoke that most people are familiar with.
My hiking friends and I were actually flying back from a hiking vacation in Hawaii that very day and we had to change course because of the eruption. BUT we could see the plume of smoke in the distance AND we could actually SMELL the smoke in the cabin.
A true "Once-In-A-Lifetime" experience!
Here's a YouTube of it – but you may want to skip to ~ the 1:33 mark. And it's really AFTER the landslide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK–hvgP2uY
Nameless is spot on. I was working for Terminmix, doing a commercial real estate inspection when ash mixed with rain started to fall. I tried to keep working but gave up. When I got back to the office, our secretary, who was black, so it was not a racist joke, asked me if I had applied for membership in the NAACP.
I hope you didn't have to legally fight to keep the job – although presumably Gorsuch wouldn't have been the judge – if he were, you would have lost it for sure.
LOL! My boss commended my extra effort. I worked longest in the ashfall.
Excellent, excellent news!
Way to go!
I posted about this,as well: http://www.care2.com/news/member/565542931/4051313
To paraphrase Charles de Gaulle from his 24 July 1967 speech in Montréal "Vive la France libre!" — free of the ultra nationalists and Marine LePen. For me the line of the French national anthem that is most important — Marchons, marchons! — Let's march, let's march! meaning March forward, march forward! Also of note is the French motto which came out of the revolution — Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité — and that was shown in today's vote.
La Marseillaise
Allons enfants de la Patrie,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé!
Contre nous de la tyrannie,
L'étendard sanglant est levé, (bis)
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats?
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras
Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes!
Aux armes, citoyens,
Formez vos bataillons,
Marchons, marchons!
Qu'un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons!
Français, en guerriers magnanimes,
Portez ou retenez vos coups!
Épargnez ces tristes victimes,
À regret s'armant contre nous. (bis)
Mais ces despotes sanguinaires,
Mais ces complices de Bouillé,
Tous ces tigres qui, sans pitié,
Déchirent le sein de leur mère!
Aux armes, citoyens…
Amour sacré de la Patrie,
Conduis, soutiens nos bras vengeurs
Liberté, Liberté chérie,
Combats avec tes défenseurs! (bis)
Sous nos drapeaux que la victoire
Accoure à tes mâles accents,
Que tes ennemis expirants
Voient ton triomphe et notre gloire!
Aux armes, citoyens…
No parlay voozie
I'm glad I looked at the activity on the site after I learned that Macron had won the French Presidential election from the news at 10 PM local time, TomCat. You had indicated that you wouldn't post, but I thought Macon's clear victory (this morning 65,5% of the votes) might have prompted you to put the news out, and so it did. Thank you for that wonderful news flash!
It came in around midnight here, a bit too late for me to comment on then so as usual I'm the last in the row to comment when I wait until (my) next morning. But being later I can perhaps add some information that supports your header that the French are smarter than Americans or Brits.
Emanuel Macron has clearly won, but this is no indication that he can count on strong support of the average Frenchman of Frenchwoman. The French in general are unhappy with politics and politicians in general and it became very clear when they voted for these two candidates, who have no ties with an "establishment" party. Macron has been a member of the cabinet for the Socialist Party, but left the party in 2009 and became Minister of Economics as an independent. He started his own movement En Marche! a year ago to run for president. Marine Le Pen has taken her over the right-populist National Front from her father and in a last bid for the presidency has stepped down as its leader after she made it to the second round.
The low turnout in this last round is another indication that many French are dissatisfied with the way their country has been run over the past decades: more than a quarter of the French stayed at home yesterday, the 74.7% turnout being an all time low since 1969. But it needs to be said that today, Monday 8th of May is also a national Holliday: la Fête de la Victoire, making it a long weekend away from home for many French, many of whom would not have taken the trouble to go to the polls back home. Dissatisfaction was also expressed in the large number of blank votes: one in ten (4,2 million) voters put in a blank protest vote to indicate that they didn't like either candidate.
But what makes it very clear that Macron's victory depended on the common sense of most French is the fact that 4 out of 10 Macron voters chose purely for him to prevent Le Pen from becoming president , as the Ipsos research office deducted from a round trip through polling stations. Something Americans and Brits should take to heart.
In the end, France has chosen for optimism and a young (39-year-old), but politically capable and centrist president to guide them through the rough times ahead. Parallels with Trudeau, and his party, winning the elections in Canada present themselves, but Macron will have a much harder time ahead of him because he has no party to lean on and besides uniting a very divided France, he needs to deal with a very divided parliament which may become even more unruly when Marine le Pen and her by then renamed National Front gets her say in it after the general elections.
Macron being pro-Europe, the EU of course rejoices, and the European markets reflected that immediately. But EU-president Junker's speech in French – because English is no longer the leading language in the EU – just to provoke UK's PM May last Friday, is NOT the way to go.
I realize that a lot of what happens now will depend on the parliamentary elections in June.
And given that today (Monday) is a national holiday (WWII Victory Day), a lot of people skipped voting while enjoying a 3-day weekend.
The voter turnout was relatively low, so I think Le Pen actually placed third behind Marchon and Didn't-Bother-to-Vote
A situation hardly unique to France.
Thanks and hugs!