French Election Results...

[Togo]

Coming in. Very interesting. Macron 28.1% of the vote with Le Pen polling 23.3%. But ... next round sees the voters for Le Pen, Melechon(EU sceptic) 20.1%, Zemmour(far right) 7.2%, and Pecresse(centre right) all get to vote again. They do not want Macron and are 78.5% of todays vote. Not looking good for the "preferred" candidate next round then. Look at the map in the link supplied. ( if the %s have changed it is because it is a rolling figure as results are counted.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2022/apr/10/french-election-2020-projected-results-and-latest-results?msclkid=9cc8e73ab8ff11ec95649136f76d967b

[Khandro]

Because I am a indecent right-wing bstard, if I could have voted in France I would have voted for Zemour with the 8%.
Next round the Zemour voters will go for Le Penn & so will lots of others, so it should be [i] très intéressant [i]

[ichkeria]

Atheist I'm sorry to say I also deplore your remarks.

I profoundly disagree with everything Le Pen stands for and I hope to God she does not win on Sunday week but it's very unfair to label her supporters in this way. All you've done is derail what could have been an interesting discssion by poisoning the water.

[Peter Pedant]

LePen has shifted centre wards
and that is posing the threat to Macron
who is doing a Falklands - that he will win an election by winning a war

[Peter Pedant]

atheist is entittled to his point of view
and anyway I can think of a few left wingers in the Kremlin who are having a job being decent

[ichkeria]

I'm not sure what "war" Macron thinks he is winning, but it is true that Le Pen has abandoned some of her principles to follow the votes.
He needs to reconnect quite quickly with some of the electorate.
But it's appalling to think that France might elect a president who does notappear to believe that the war crimes committed around Kyiv are genuine. People are not voting on those lines of course.
Now she'll go after the left wing vote, much of which she'll need.

[ichkeria]

"I can think of a few left wingers in the Kremlin"

Well done Peter: care to name one?

[Khandro]

ichi; //But it's appalling to think that France might elect a president who does notappear to believe that the war crimes committed around Kyiv are genuine. //

Link please

[Togo]

//Our friends and neighbours over there are lovely decent people.//

Haha. Poseur or what? This was about the French election, which some of us would take an interest in. The usual suspects have again schlepped up with their cant and derailed what could have been an adult discourse. If you want to identify what is wrong with the site look no further. The news section is dead because of the peurile self regard of just a few. I rarely posted a thread in news lately, and will not post another.

[Peter Pedant]

winning the war
just a term
he was gonna be the great mediator and peace maker and the next day Russia invaded

[ichkeria]

She has since done a bit of a volte face on the war crimes thing but her claim that Putin in "not the same person I met in 2017" sounds like a convenient re-writing of history to me.

[Peter Pedant]

I note thingey lives there innit
closer to the electroate than we are

and as for posting things that only Togo approves of

I wd nevva post my wise and witty pensays ( togos spelling)

Presumably the losers chose a candidate and urge their voters to vote that way - Pecheresse for LePen and so on

[ichkeria]

Pecresse for Macron I rather think Peter.
In fact she has already said so.
She hasn't many votes to offer tho

[Peter Pedant]

o god France Inter has a concentrated goop of party politicals

Free apple pie, avancez les bleus! Pensions at 55 still at 2/3 last job whackeroo

seems centrist to me

[Atheist]

Sorry, folks. I'll endeavour not to post personal views on a post about the ins and outs of political procdures in future.

[Khandro]

Personal views are what we do all the time, but read the post through before pressing 'answer now' checking it's not liable to be misinterpreted - though there's never a guarantee on AB against that :0)

[Togo]

//Personal views are what we do all the time//

"Personal views" are, and never were, the issue Khandro. Uncalled for judgemental argot is.

[youngmafbog]

Personally I think I would be stuck if I was a French voter. As I said in my other thread on this topic just below I'd like to see Macron with a bloody nose but I suspect we (the UK) could be worse off with Le Penn even though Macron is strongly anti Brexit.

Probably because I'm not French I suppose.

[Togo]

I can't see how we could be worse off with Le Pen Ymb. She is not a slavish EU tub thumper and will not engineer policies to cause damage or disruption to our interests just for the hell of it. She wants what is best for France and I can relate to that. It is something that we in the Uk have always had to consider and sometimes even resist. Perhaps if we elected people who showed the same belief and commitment to our National interests we wouldn't get blind sided so much by the unelected denizens in Brussels. I predict a massive concerted effort by the established "press and media outlets" to smear her or to plant false implications and attitudes before the next round of voting. We have seen it before here and in the U.S. Look where that led incidentally. I can't find the thread you referred to @16.59.

[Old_Geezer]

I don't tend to take a lot of interest in French politics, but, given a two horse race between Macron the proven bumbler, and the scary Le Pen, it seems near inconceivable that French voters would opt for more of the same rather than take a chance on change.