France 2017 Election Thread

Niccolo and Donkey Tuesday 25 Apr 2017

Småland Wednesday 26 Apr 2017

Niccolo and Donkey Wednesday 26 Apr 2017

Draugen Wednesday 26 Apr 2017

http://www.rocketnews.com/2017/04/amiens-le-pen-upstages-macron-at-whirlpool-factory/

Amiens: Le Pen upstages Macron at Whirlpool factory

Posted on April 26, 2017 by Editor - World News
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French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron has been booed and heckled with chants backing his far-right rival Marine Le Pen in his home town.

Wednesday’s incident happened outside the Whirlpool appliance factory in northern city of Amiens after Macron arranged to meet the plant workers’ union representatives, without actually visiting the facility.

He only arrived there after Le Pen turned up unannounced outside the plant and posed for selfies with workers.

“Everyone knows what side Emmanuel Macron is on – he is on the side of the corporations,” Le Pen said. “I am on the workers’ side, here in the car park, not in restaurants in Amiens.”

After arriving, Macron told angry workers that the only reason that anti-EU Le Pen had come was “because I’m here”.

He also retorted on Twitter that she had spent “10 minutes with her supporters in a car park in front of the cameras” whereas he had spent “an hour and a half with union representatives and no media”.

Le Pen’s campaign coup
Al Jazeera’s Natacha Butler, speaking from Arras, said Le Pen showed Macron that “the gloves are off in the battle for the French presidency”.

“He was totally upstaged by the far-right leader. It was a real campaign coup. It perhaps shows what some people have been saying that he is inexperienced,” she said. “Marine Le Pen is a veteran politician. She knows how to campaign hard.”

The factory operated by Whirlpool, a US multinational company, is threatened with outsourcing to Poland.

Macron was in Amiens to try to counter accusations that he had made a complacent start to campaigning for the presidential runoff on May 7.

After winning Sunday’s contest with 24.1 percent to Le Pen’s 21.3 percent, Macron gave an exuberant victory speech followed by a high-profile celebration at La Rotonde bistro in Paris, drawing criticism from some quarters.

Socialist Party chief Jean-Christophe Cambadelis told French radio: “He was smug. He wrongly thought that it was a done deal. It’s not a done deal.”

President Francois Hollande appeared on Tuesday to admonish his former economy minister for not taking the fight to Le Pen immediately after the first round.

Macron shot back, saying: “I will continue to fight for two weeks … I will defend the progressive camp to the end.”

A poll on Wednesday suggested that Macron will defeat Le Pen by a margin of 21 points, but as the day’s events showed, the far-right candidate is a more experienced political campaigner.

After the shocks of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and Donald Trump’s unlikely ascent to the White House, analysts say a late surge by Le Pen is still possible.

Who to endorse
A key factor in the race is which candidate the supporters of Communist-backed Jean-Luc Melenchon, who finished in fourth place with 19.58 percent on Sunday, will support in the run-off.

Melenchon faced criticism after he failed to urge people who voted for him to get behind Macron as part of the so-called “republican front”, the decades-old French tactic of closing ranks to block the far-right.

Melenchon’s spokesman Alexis Corbiere said the hard-left firebrand would not endorse anyone.

Corbiere, however, told French TV channel LCI earlier Wednesday that “for us the National Front is a danger” and urged viewers to not give “a single vote to the National Front”.

Alarusskiyan Wednesday 26 Apr 2017

Keeping this out of the banner thread for now.

Saruman Wednesday 26 Apr 2017

This would seem to be a good base to do well in the legislative elections in June.

Unfortunately I suspect the mainstream parties will use tactical voting to ensure FN remains mostly blocked out of the Assembly. Like they did in 2015.

J-Mask {107} Thursday 27 Apr 2017

What I like about Le Pen is that's she's an actual nationalist, not the typical "muh free market will fix it!!!" type of cuckservative who will gladly sell everything in their nation off to the highest bidder.

Saruman Friday 28 Apr 2017

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-poll-odoxa-idUSKBN17U21A

Macron set to win French presidency, but Le Pen gains ground: Odoxa poll

A new Odoxa survey of voter intentions said centrist Emmanuel Macron would win the French presidency in a May 7 vote, but that his share of the vote would be 59 percent, down four percentage points from its previous survey.

The survey, carried out over April 26-27 and published on Friday, saw his far right rival Marine Le Pen on 41 percent, up four points compared with the previous survey on April 24-25.

The poll showed that 40 percent of supporters of the defeated first-round French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon would vote Emmanuel Macron, while half of Francois Fillon voters would do the same.

More than 40 percent of Melenchon voters plan to abstain, the poll also showed.

Saruman Friday 28 Apr 2017

J-Mask {107} Friday 28 Apr 2017

Because nothing is more conservative than voting for a pro-open borders, Rothschild banker puppet. What a joke.

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