Mr Macron has won the support of the wealthier and better educated, but has let down the youth and poor
It is likely Monsieur Emmanuel Macron will win the second round of France’s presidential elections on 7 May. During the election campaign, when asked about rumours of an affair with a (male) journalist, Mr Macron replied that maybe the one having the affair was his hologram. He was also trying to strike a blow at his opponent, Jean-Luc Melenchon,...
... The EU membership referendum is a vulnerable point in M. Le Pen’s program. This is because in the event of the referendum failing a major share of the propositions in other sections of her program would no longer make sense.
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The second round of elections in France is the meeting of two extremes. E. Macron will finalize his progressivist, globalist, pro-European program in an attempt to balance the interests of all of his allies. M. Le Pen, on the contrary, will try to preserve the image of the peoples’ ...
... could definitely boost the bilateral relations. As she declared, Marine Le Pen supports an independent foreign policy: "France will ally with all non-aligned peoples against ultra-liberalism and individualism." She intends to base her foreign ... ... rhetoric defended by Putin's Russia. However, Marine Le Pen will confronted to the "favorite" of the French political elections, Emmanuel Macron. What will come out for Russia in case of Macron`s victory? According to Macron`s official position,...
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Since François Hollande, the principal left-wing figure, postponed his decision on running for the second term until January, the republicans are the first to announce the principal topics and candidates for the upcoming presidential elections of 2017. For the first time in France’s history, they decided to use American electoral technologies which allow to avoid scattering the right-wing votes between various parties and movements: they decided to hold their own primaries to determine the single right-wing republican ...
Republican consensus holds off ultra-right offensive
Republican consensus holds off ultra-right offensive in French departmental elections The results of the second round of departmental council elections held in France on Sunday, 29 March 2015 brought a dramatic change to the country’s political map. It went “blue” owing to an increase in the number of departments won by the right-wing republicans (the French media mark them in blue and the ...