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| 2017 French Presidential Election Thread - Round 1 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 22 2017, 12:47 AM (154 Views) | |
| Webster | Apr 22 2017, 12:47 AM Post #1 |
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In June 2016, British voters pulled the initial trigger for their now-certain departure from the EU; in November, U.S. voters stunned the electoral world by electing Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States.......now French voters go to the polls on Sunday to decide who should be their next president.... |
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| Webster | Apr 23 2017, 11:13 AM Post #16 |
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(Daily Telegraph) Trump: French election 'very interesting'[/b] Donald Trump is watching... (1) Very interesting election currently taking place in France. (from Friday following the mid-week terrorist shooting on the Champs Elysee) Another terrorist attack in Paris. The people of France will not take much more of this. Will have a big effect on presidential election! |
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| Webster | Apr 23 2017, 11:15 AM Post #17 |
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(Daily Telegraph) Voter turnout higher than expected Voter turnout at 5pm French time was 69.42 per cent, slightly down on the last presidential elections in 2012 at this stage, which was 70.59 per cent, but still higher than previously expected. |
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| Webster | Apr 23 2017, 11:26 AM Post #18 |
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(Daily Telegraph) Media flocks to Marine Le Pen's heartland --Rory Mulholland is in Henin-Beaumont: Hundreds of journalists from around world are queuing to get in to the hall where Marine Le Pen is due to make her speech tonight after her victory or defeat in the first round poll. The hall is in the northern town of Henin-Beaumont, where she has a home and where she voted this morning. Henin-Beaumont is in a Front National heartland, a "rustbelt" where the coal mines closed long ago and the factories moved abroad. Many of Ms Le Pen's voters are people who previously voted leftwing but have switched to her far-Right party, after feeling let down or ignored by the ruling Socialist party. One irony that must be galling for Ms Le Pen is that the hall where she is to speak this evening is called the "François Mitterrand Centre" after the late Socialist president. |
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| Webster | Apr 23 2017, 11:29 AM Post #19 |
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![]() --Journalists from around the world queue for access to hall where Marine Le Pen to give post results speech in Henin-Beaumont #franceelection (Rory Mulholland, Daily Telegraph - 23 April 2017) |
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| Webster | Apr 23 2017, 11:32 AM Post #20 |
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![]() --Must be galling for far-right Marine Le Pen that venue where she gives possible election victory speech is named after socialist Mitterrand (Rory Mulholland, Daily Telegraph - 23 April 2017) |
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| Webster | Apr 23 2017, 11:35 AM Post #21 |
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![]() (Le Parisien) In this cartoon from Le Parisien, a man says to a woman: "We're voting today" She replies: "I'd like to confound the polls but they've already taken that into account by saying they don't know who people are going to vote for." |
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| Webster | Apr 23 2017, 11:42 AM Post #22 |
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(Daily Telegraph) Ifop predicts 81 per cent participation Polling institute Ifop has published an estimate of what it thinks the final turnout will be, at a very reasonable 81 per cent. |
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| Webster | Apr 23 2017, 11:57 AM Post #23 |
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(Daily Telegraph) Macron in the lead, Belgian media claims "Several" polls cited by Belgian media RTBF, which doesn't need to abide by French rules, suggest that Emmanuel Macron is in the lead, with the three other candidates "neck and neck" behind... --#présidentielles2017: Selon plusieurs enquêtes convergentes Macron est en tête devant Le Pen, Fillon et Mélenchon dans un mouchoir de poche (ENG - Presidentials2017 : According to several converging surveys Macron is leading in front of Le Pen, Fillon and Mélenchon in a pocket handkerchief) (RTBF, 23 April 2017) |
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| Webster | Apr 23 2017, 12:05 PM Post #24 |
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![]() --Get your Marine Le Pen mugs, lighters, key rings and other FN trinkets here! Inside hall where she gives victory/defeat speech tonight (Rory Mulholland, Daily Telegraph - 23 April 2017) |
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| Webster | Apr 23 2017, 12:19 PM Post #25 |
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![]() (The Guardian) In Nice, scene of the truck attack that left 86 people dead last July, security was at the front of many minds, reports Oscar Lopez – particularly following Thursday’s killing of a policeman on the Champs Elysées, an attack claimed by Islamic State. “It’s not normal, all those army guys patrolling the streets,” said Richard, 63, who did not want to give his last name. “It’s scary. The Islamists need to be stopped.” Richard, who is Armenian, had come from church to vote. “There was nobody there,” he says. “People have lost their beliefs. Islam gives them something to believe in.” When it came to the campaign, he says it was “Awful. All blah blah blah.” He had, however, chosen a candidate. “I’m voting right, but not Fillon,” he says – then, after a brief pause, “I’m voting for a lady.” For Nelly Laforge, 60, it was the conservative Fillon’s stance on national security that had won her vote. “We’ve survived many attacks,” she says. “It’s scary. I have to go to Paris on Monday and I’m worried about being on public transport.” She was also concerned that, after the attacks in Paris on Thursday, even more people would turn to Le Pen. The fake job scandal that engulfed Fillon did not bother her. “All politicians have done the same thing,” she says. “He has experience. He’s presidential.” Still, if Fillon doesn’t make it past the first round, she said she’d be willing to support Macron: “People are tired of left-right politics.” |
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| Webster | Apr 23 2017, 12:20 PM Post #26 |
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(The Guardian) France’s 2017 presidential election has been one of the tightest and least predictable in generations. After the final set of opinion polls on Friday, of four candidates leading the first round any two could conceivably make it to the run-off. What’s more, up to 25% of voters were estimated to be undecided on the eve of the vote. No one, in short, should be under any illusion: anything could yet happen. |
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| Webster | Apr 23 2017, 12:21 PM Post #27 |
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![]() (The Guardian) François Fillon of Les Républicains party casts his ballot in Paris. |
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| Webster | Apr 23 2017, 12:47 PM Post #28 |
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(The Guardian) Guardian readers have been answering our request for their views on the election, and why they chose to vote for a particular candidate. Here are some who have opted for the centrist Emmanuel Macron; we will feature the views of other candidates’ supporters through the evening: --Pascal, 62, Paris Macron is young, smart and is not tightly tied to the organisations of big political parties. He seems able to achieve a good balance between pragmatism and fidelity to principles from the traditional left. --René, 48, Versailles, police officer It’s more a default choice. I don’t want an extremist in charge, nor a corrupt Fillon. I hope that Macron will take some measures to make the country go forward instead of living in fear. --Jacques-Henri, 54, Paris, restaurateur It’s high time to move on, with new faces and a new attitude. Macron is the only true pro-European candidate. He wants to change our country with people notwithstanding where they come from. He expects results and facts. --Guillaume, 36, Dordogne, web designer I am not convinced he’ll be a great president, but I am convinced the other three would be a disaster. Mélenchon and Le Pen both crave the death of the EU and are blind to the damage it would do to France and the wider world. |
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| Webster | Apr 23 2017, 01:00 PM Post #29 |
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(The Guardian) There have been more twists and turns – and more firsts – in this election campaign than in any other in living memory. This is, for example, the first time a sitting first-term president has decided not to run for re-election and the first time a candidate in a major French election has been under formal judicial investigation. It’s also the first time that there has been a serious risk of neither of the two mainstream centre-right and centre-left parties that have governed France since the war making it through to the second round. Besides François Hollande, other big beasts of French politics – former president Nicolas Sarkozy, former prime minister Alain Juppé – fell at the first hurdle. A victory for Emmanuel Macron would be the first for a candidate without a party. And then of course, there was Penelopegate ... Here’s a look back at the twists and turns of this genuinely remarkable campaign. -Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/23/twists-and-turns-france-strangest-ever-presidential-election?CMP=twt_gu |
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| Webster | Apr 23 2017, 01:02 PM Post #30 |
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![]() (The Guardian) People queue at a polling station in Marseille. |
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