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Lol you think policy doesn't overlap with personal preference? You think trump doesn't back le pen as a matter of policy?	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
[Macron campaign team used honeypot accounts to fake out Fancy Bear](https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/macron-campaign-team-used-honeypot-accounts-to-fake-out-fancy-bear/) Pretty interesting article here, where the Macron team publicised (one of) their counter-measures against cyber attacks. We can see further development of cyber warfare in the near future.	geopolitics	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
I fucking hate Le Pen, but it seems like a bit of a stretch to charge her with breaking this law, and the law itself sounds kinda dumb to me.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
So why is he demanding this? Le Pen or whoever non Muslim person has no obligation to cover their head just because this person wants to. See I'm not arguing in favor of Le Pen, fuck LP tbh, she's a Russian puppet populist, but the point stands. Why would the scarf be mandatory?	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Yes, if I had to choose one populist that can win in Europe, it'd be Le Pen, she seems to be the most dangerous one to me.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Good job, Macron. This would be a huge victory, but to do so with a brand new party? It's a hell of an accomplishment. They're being predicted to get up to 445 seats out of 577 seats. And the cherry on top is Le Pen's fascist party is getting 4 seats, at most.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
I've not yet decided if Macron is more alike Obama, Clinton or Trudeau. I guess analogies can only take you so far.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
You're limited to what you can say on Twitter and so far all I've seen is "there are leaks" there's nothing specific, except for maybe tax evasion, but given that Le Pen is taking money from the Russians & the EU that's far more corrupt and there's been of an investigation....whoever leaked this information didn't think about the timing. They didn't want Macron to be able to respond, but it just makes the leak unintelligible.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
but Fillon is the one advocating for smaller government and more room in the private market	Conservative	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
AHAHAHHAHAHAH! Le Pen just said she's never insulted someone for their religion. IN WHAT WORLD	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
>The parliament suspects some €5m (£4m; $5.4m) went to assistants of Ms Le Pen's National Front (FN) who were not working for MEPs but were actually engaged in FN party work in France. Basically, Le Pen may have been inappropriately using taxpayer money to advance her far right nationalist party.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Proportionality	Not Confident
He's not wrong, the question is just would you rather a opportunist Hollande 2.0 more interested in spiting political opponents and enforcing even more bureaucracy, or a representative of the most racist party in western Europe.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Equality	Confident
Le Pen and Melenchon personally hate each other, so no, she would not enjoy losing to him.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Considering her background, contacts, funding and personal agenda, supporting Le Pen at this point is extremely difficult to justify from a rational standpoint.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Can I say that Le Pen is retarded? I seriously don't understand how people can support someone so vile and limited to reality.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Thin Morality	Confident
Most people put Hilary 30-40 points ahead and gave her a 90% chance of winning. On election day working class people voted Trump and gave him a comfortable lead. Admittedly it's different in France, a country that does not have an electoral college, but communist/leftist voters could choose not to vote which would give Le Pen an advantage.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
>You put Theresa May in the same category as Putin and Le Pen? You put Le Pen in the same category as Putin?	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Haven't noticed much about that in the news here. The only reason I've even learned about it, were Russian shills posting her worst photos to show "how ugly Macron's wife is", and some of my FB friends shared those posts.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
yes, because the left of Hamon is very similar to the far left of Mélenchon and the right of Fillon also leans toward the FN.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
I just love this kind of argument. Le Pen nationalist - no bueno, dehumanizing people because they don't have higher education - liberty, equality, fraternity.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Care,Equality	Confident
Boring government is how we got geometric zoning and occupational licensing laws. We need to shake things up, like Macron did.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Wow. This is pathetic. Russian propaganda arm? False accusations? Where did Trump endorse Le Pen? Because Obama actually endorsed Macron essentially interfering with a foreign country's election. And I'm assuming everyone here is so against that right?	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
I did it with Trump too, won 700€. Won't bet on Le Pen because Trump winning propably taught lefties in europe that they have to do something themselves.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
The polls were accurate, but Le Pen did worse than the average predicted. Poll Average / Actual Result: Macron: 24 / 24 Le Pen: 22 / 21 Fillon: 20 / 20 Melenchon: 19 / 20 Hamon: 8 / 6	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
> Holy shit. How can you call him a traitor when he says colonialism in Algeria was a crime against humanity. Disgusting well, if you think that Jean Marie Le Pen was a fighter in Algeria, you understand why Macron's statement was used against him. FN , while pretending not to be the Petainist, nazi apologist, antisemite homophobic shit it is, still can use the vote of those hard core right wingers nostalgic of the glorious empire.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Purity,Care,Equality	Confident
I recognize Wilders, Le Pen, and Petry. Who are the other two on the left?	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Do the unemployed themselves vote for Le Pen, though? Unemployed in Germany (30% of working population) voted communists rather than Hitler. It could be that the feeling of decline in general (not per se among unemployed and the poor themselves) is pushing these people towards radical-right alternatives.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Equality	Somewhat Confident
35% of 88% (people who voted for neither Le Pen or Macron) of 75% (actual turnout) So more like 23% of all voters	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
I'd say Melenchon has taken a fair few votes from LePen.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
That's Le Pen OP does not know how to form a sentence.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Because a fetish for benefits and working rights is such a bad thing /s Macron will become as popular as Hollande if he reforms too much	europe	French politics	annotator02	Equality	Confident
That's not a good reason because they can just turn it around and say if you want people to live by your rules in your country, you have to live by theirs when you go there. I don't like Le Pen but I support anyone refusing to wear the headscarf because I think their culture is just wrong about that kind of stuff.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Authority	Confident
Do you think the traditional right will vote for Mélenchon? In a Le Pen vs. Fillon scenario, the left will likely stay at home or reluctantly chose for Fillon while in a Le Pen vs. Mélenchon scenario the right will not stay home but chose Le Pen over Mélenchon.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Borth Le pen and Fillon went up??? I will never understand the French.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Fillon - criminal investigation into the use of government funds to allegedly pay his family members for doing fake jobs. The raid is part of this investigation. https://www.google.com/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/39146848 Le pen - Posted pictures of ISIS brutality as part of her political campaign. This goes against french speech laws, so the french government was trying to take action against her. Le pen claimed diplomatic immunity as a member of the eu parliament, which has revoked her immunity in response. She also faces similar charges to Fillon over the alleged misuse of eu funds to pay her aides. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/02/518127204/marine-le-pen-faces-possible-prosecution-over-graphic-tweets	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Don't you think it makes a pretty long shot ? Le Pen does have chances to be elected (although current political scene is pretty blurry due to Fillon's BS), but after that, she would still have to get France out of NATO and Europe. If (and that's a big if) it actually happens, EU would last for years before falling apart (because Germany).	geopolitics	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
How does it feel to know that your antisemitic piece of trash lost to God emperor Macron?	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Equality	Confident
Le Pen is far behind Macron in a 1v1, but she isn't far behind Fillion, and in the first round no one is currently guaranteed to move on. If it's Le Pen vs Fillion who move on then it's not too far fetched that you'll have a copy of the US election.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Sounds like a lot of elections recently tbh, dear leader Macron excepted.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Authority	Somewhat Confident
Macron won with 65,5% of the votes. What a coincidence !	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Yes but he didn't win, that's the point, even if people was but look at Trump! I am not trying to say Le Pen will not win, I am saying she will not win at the first round if nothing crazy happen. Melenchon have as much chance as her to win the first round in this case. Do you think she can win 25% of the vote in two week? In this cas Macron can do this, Melenchon can too, and maybe Hamon will too...	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
After looking through this guy's history, it's clear that he's incoherent. Ignore him, is what I say. He apparently thinks the reason everyone is hating on Trump is because he's taller and heavier than Macron, thus creating a David and Goliath situation, which I'm sure is not true.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
> Before /r/neoliberal Spends lots of time on reddit on a variety of subreddits, often getting exasperated and angry with other users. > After /r/neoliberal Only visits reddit to thank mr. bernke and up-macron dank centrist memes. Has time for other, more wholesome activities. Uh, thanks I guess.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Ugh. I know that it shouldn't, but Piketty's endorsement of Melenchon really reflects poorly on him in my eyes. Like, I get that lefties gotta stick together, but he's normalizing the divisive stupidity that so often accompanies them.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Economically, Le Pen does have a lot of left-wing ideas.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
A lot a misogynist men are salty about this, so Macron is doing awesome.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Equality	Somewhat Confident
Oh. That's pretty ignorant in the cultural differences regarding gender between the two countries. Besides, Clinton had a fairly moderate right-leaning platform. Le Pen is radical right. Not really relatable.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Equality	Confident
This guy strikes me as really dangerous. Not because he's such a threat in and of himself (I don't know much about him), but because if the runoff election becomes a far-left candidate against Le Pen, Le Pen has a legitimate chance of winning. I suspect Macron would dominate her but if he doesn't make it, things could get real dicey real fast.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
> 53% would vote Jobbik (far right) > And not like Le Pen, Trump, or even Wilders. Like explicitly anti-Semitic far right. Fuuuuuu...	europe	French politics	annotator02	Equality	Confident
>How am I an "idiot"? "Melenchon and Sanders should be sitting in a rotten dank prison." "BTW, Capitalism is more important than democracy." Not even funny anymore.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Equality	Confident
That's what it sounds like to me too. The whole Pence conversion therapy thing always seemed like bullshit because it relies on a very extreme interpretation of this sentence.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
I'm actually loving macron and his views on things. Not all things.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Although her opponents dismiss her, Le Pen is a formidable force in the impending French election. Appealing to populist, anti-European voters as well as millenials, Le Pen has struck a chord in the French electorate that could shake Europe to its core. France is second only to Greece in its dislike of the European Union, surpassing even Britain. Should Le Pen win, it could sound the death knell of the EU.	geopolitics	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Indeed, Mr Hollande. And you have played your part in maintaining or widening the cracks that threaten those things.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
We're desperate for any candidate at all who isn't a complete ultra conservative on all fronts nutjob, which both Le Pen and Fillon are. Social conservatism is bad enough, but eviscerating the state, ruining it fiscally, and fellating corporations is not something most people look forward to.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Equality	Confident
Hello Macron! How does it feel knowing you're gonna lose?	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Yeah man, if we don't stop with this Le Penn might win!	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
> Marine Le Pen will remain in power at the Front National whatever happens. /u/Exotemporal That's assuming the undergoing lawsuit fail. It probably won't. > I could see Philippot make a grab. And you would be wrong. There are two FN. A northern one, and a southern one. The new "north" part of the party is the one that could vote for Phillipot as they are mostly pissed off labor forces. The southern part would never, ever vote for a gay. They were the one already voting for the father's antisemitic rant.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Equality	Confident
That's not to say people don't want something serious to be done about this, it's just that thinking Le Pen would be the only one to do so (let alone do it well) is a fallacy.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Is there any real danger of Le Pen actually taking power in France? I have to ask because if people weren't constantly reporting on what this nutcase thinks, maybe it would stop legitimizing her and giving people the impression that she's got anything to say that they really want to elect her for.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
By the way ... I live right next to your country (La petite Suisse, dedieu) and I'm all of a sudden hearing a lot about Macron. Do you have a tl;dr version of why he is suddenly that popular? I would have expected the lead socialist candidate to be Valls instead, from my limited understanding of your politics.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Like Le Pen, he is very anti-establishment and very anti-EU. He is also a communist-endorsed candidate who makes Sanders look like Milton Friedman. Le Pen vs Mélenchon would be the establishment's worst nightmare. Edit: So yeah, my point is: political forces all around the world are shaking not only on the right, but also on the left.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Thin Morality	Confident
OP pointed that Macron was looking at Denmark, which GDP grew three times less than France in the last decade.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Macron was a socialist, as is Hollande. It's the majority party	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Well, what you say is true but Le Pen is trash, so anyone openly supporting her probably deserves getting those downvotes.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Thin Morality	Confident
It's more publishing images of their deceased loved ones which they can argue or prove has caused them harm. I imagine the family members of those killed by ISIS don't particularly like being used for Marine Le Pen's political ends, even if it's in defense of herself.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Care	Confident
But imagine a clinton/trump similar situation : fillon/lepen, with an investigation or leaked documents that illustrate strong illegal activity from fillon. Are you absolutely sure she would be massively voted against ? (and yes, the historical chirac/lepen tend to show us it could be the case, but mlp is seen as less dangerous/extrem).	geopolitics	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
If Macron doesn't do well, it won't matter. People will get desperate and vote for Le Pen and the like when their concerns are not met. And if it's not Le Pen, it could be someone even more intelligent and well spoken. The European far right has gained a fairly significant following the migrant crisis and increased frequency of terror attacks in the wake of Brexit and the growing popularity for Wilders and Hofer. These 5-10 next years will determine their future.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Putin just made Macron Merkel's biggest ally in shifting European Union away from Russia	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Are you sure Macron does not, in fact, want to stop the terrorist attacks, too, but is aware enough to know that islamophobia will only worsen the issue?	europe	French politics	annotator02	Equality	Confident
> he should tell that he will vote Macron because he really doesn't want Le Pen to win Which is just what he did...	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
If you read the article posted by the OP, it says "France’s Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) believes that Russia will help Le Pen by way of bots that will flood the internet with millions of positive posts about Le Pen — and by publishing her opponents’ confidential emails." That's exactly what happened in the US, which was the point of my original post. The links I posted back that up if you care to actually read them.	geopolitics	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
beware, Macron have some good ideas, but still is a neo-liberal which is preparing a law against labour rules which protect workers from exploitation...	europe	French politics	annotator02	Equality	Confident
In the second Macron takes majority of votes from Fillon, Hamon, Melenchon.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Obama is no longer president, he can endorse whoever the fuck he wants. If Putin came out and publicy supported Le Pen, that's also fine. Spreading lies, hacking emails, and the other skeevy shit Russia did/does is not ok. How does this need to be fucking explained.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Thin Morality	Confident
Marine Le Pen will win France, and France will leave the EU. It will collapse under its own weight. The longer the leftist elite ignores their constituency the more traction hard-right factions get among the citizenry. Soon there will be a rising tide of ultranationalism sweeping across Europe if things keep going the way that they are going now.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Somewhat Confident
Yeah so LePen is just nothing alike Trump (not saying i root for her either) and Macron is definitely not alike Hollande. Try again	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
What's the chance of Hamon/Melenchon quitting and endorsing the other so the left have a shot in the second round?	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
I don't judge Le Pen because of her father, I judge her because of her barbaric white nationalist policies.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Care,Equality	Confident
George Osborne, though he's temporarily stepped back from frontline politics, is the neoliberal par excellence. Honourable mentions to Obama, Clinton, the other Clinton, Macron, and Italy's renzi.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Why is she not on vacation in France? They have many beautiful destinations, does she hate her own country? If she was really patriotic, she would be helping small businesses that depend on tourism, not feed the americans. ^ As someone who listens to a lot of french politics, this is typically something she would say about someone else. Just today she criticised Emmanuel Macron for speaking english.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Loyalty	Confident
[Trump propaganda machine trying their hardest to create divisions with Macron's win.](http://www.allenbwest.com/matt-palumbo/france-just-elected-centrist-macron-liberals-might-not-cheer-discover) Bets as to how many Berniechon bros fall for this?	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
See how unpatriotic these Macron supporters are? Using an American film reference in French politics?	europe	French politics	annotator02	Loyalty	Confident
Make no mistake, Le Pen vs. Mélenchon would also be an absolute disaster for Europe and the EU. Both want France to leave the EU. I hope Macron wins and radically changes French politics, because maintaining the status quo is at least as dangerous as Le Pen or Mélenchon. And if this doesn't end in a complete clusterfuck, we still have to hope Italy won't vote for M5S in the next election.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Thin Morality	Confident
Le Pen is the other side of the same coin. Please, Europe, save yourselves and don't fuck it up like we did.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Thin Morality	Confident
No. The word voter does not even appear. It doesn't even talk about electors at all. It's not even about the presidential election, but as I said about the upcoming legislatives. Maybe the google translation is weird enough to make it seem like voter fraud (google translation is notoriously bad when it comes to French). Or they were confused by the 'MinInt' (I was too at first). Maybe they're just idiots. I should mention that I support Macron but I don't see how that would impact the understanding of an email in my mother tongue.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
And a massive proportion of us are here right now, just checking on our Macron memes.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
My second is Peña Nieto, Macron is about third. His smile is little bit weird.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Wow I'm pleasantly surprised Macron would do this. Hopefully the economic aid doesnt happen until they are defeated, otherwise you are just giving resources to your enemies and aiding them while you fight them. Crush the terrorists, ignore their apologists, then make the place a little better so the migrants can go home.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Thin Morality	Confident
> I do think the countries want leadership and money. All the calls for "Eurobonds" have been clear revelations of wanting fiscal transfers without the burden of political integration (and a political body that takes the right for budgetary bungling out of the hands of the troubled states). This has been made clear time and time again since 2008. I think it was Hollande who called for eurobonds or fiscal transfers while insisting at the same time he wouldn't give up an ounce of french sovereignty. That is wanting the cake and eating it ...	europe	French politics	annotator02	Proportionality	Somewhat Confident
lol. the markets fully expected macron to win and they had adjusted. what was he expecting?? the first round could have been the same if not for melenchon.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
> "Are you right of, what is generally accepted as, center?" Yes "Fascist, literally Hitler." Wrong! We don't call Fillon, Friedman, Jeb!, May, Merkel, Thatcher, and others on the right fascists. It's not a partisan sub.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Using Kremlin-started hashtags would make them trend, though. It's hard to fight back against Kremlin lies, but probably a good start is mockery of the fact that the Kremlin squeezes what little money the poor inhabitants of Russia have out in taxes and then wastes it on hopeless causes like Marine Le Pen. How come they can pay for this bullshit while the infrastructure of Russia is falling apart?	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Proportionality	Confident
I don't know where you are looking, but all live results I see have Macron taking what he was projected to and winning the plurality in the first round.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Trudeau, Macron, and Merkel form the Free World Oligarchy now.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
I thought Le Pen had stepped down? EDIT: Oh, only as the FN president. Sorry, haven't been keeping up with French elections since the First Round.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Trump got him back when Macron arrived at the NATO summit though xD	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Of course she would, otherwise she stands no chance of becoming prez. The only thing above Le Pen's xenophobia is their thrive for power.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Equality	Confident
Fillon isn't center right, he's a classic right-wing : socially conservative and economically liberal.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Out of the loop. Why Macron being president is a great thing for Europe?	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident

Lol you think policy doesn't overlap with personal preference? You think trump doesn't back le pen as a matter of policy?

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[Macron campaign team used honeypot accounts to fake out Fancy Bear](https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/macron-campaign-team-used-honeypot-accounts-to-fake-out-fancy-bear/) Pretty interesting article here, where the Macron team publicised (one of) their counter-measures against cyber attacks. We can see further development of cyber warfare in the near future.

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I fucking hate Le Pen, but it seems like a bit of a stretch to charge her with breaking this law, and the law itself sounds kinda dumb to me.

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So why is he demanding this? Le Pen or whoever non Muslim person has no obligation to cover their head just because this person wants to. See I'm not arguing in favor of Le Pen, fuck LP tbh, she's a Russian puppet populist, but the point stands. Why would the scarf be mandatory?

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Yes, if I had to choose one populist that can win in Europe, it'd be Le Pen, she seems to be the most dangerous one to me.

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Good job, Macron. This would be a huge victory, but to do so with a brand new party? It's a hell of an accomplishment. They're being predicted to get up to 445 seats out of 577 seats. And the cherry on top is Le Pen's fascist party is getting 4 seats, at most.

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I've not yet decided if Macron is more alike Obama, Clinton or Trudeau. I guess analogies can only take you so far.

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You're limited to what you can say on Twitter and so far all I've seen is "there are leaks" there's nothing specific, except for maybe tax evasion, but given that Le Pen is taking money from the Russians & the EU that's far more corrupt and there's been of an investigation....whoever leaked this information didn't think about the timing. They didn't want Macron to be able to respond, but it just makes the leak unintelligible.

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but Fillon is the one advocating for smaller government and more room in the private market

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AHAHAHHAHAHAH! Le Pen just said she's never insulted someone for their religion. IN WHAT WORLD

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>The parliament suspects some €5m (£4m; $5.4m) went to assistants of Ms Le Pen's National Front (FN) who were not working for MEPs but were actually engaged in FN party work in France. Basically, Le Pen may have been inappropriately using taxpayer money to advance her far right nationalist party.

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He's not wrong, the question is just would you rather a opportunist Hollande 2.0 more interested in spiting political opponents and enforcing even more bureaucracy, or a representative of the most racist party in western Europe.

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Le Pen and Melenchon personally hate each other, so no, she would not enjoy losing to him.

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Considering her background, contacts, funding and personal agenda, supporting Le Pen at this point is extremely difficult to justify from a rational standpoint.

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Can I say that Le Pen is retarded? I seriously don't understand how people can support someone so vile and limited to reality.

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Most people put Hilary 30-40 points ahead and gave her a 90% chance of winning. On election day working class people voted Trump and gave him a comfortable lead. Admittedly it's different in France, a country that does not have an electoral college, but communist/leftist voters could choose not to vote which would give Le Pen an advantage.

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>You put Theresa May in the same category as Putin and Le Pen? You put Le Pen in the same category as Putin?

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Haven't noticed much about that in the news here. The only reason I've even learned about it, were Russian shills posting her worst photos to show *"how ugly Macron's wife is"*, and some of my FB friends shared those posts.

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yes, because the left of Hamon is very similar to the far left of Mélenchon and the right of Fillon also leans toward the FN.

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I just love this kind of argument. Le Pen nationalist - no bueno, dehumanizing people because they don't have higher education - liberty, equality, fraternity.

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Boring government is how we got geometric zoning and occupational licensing laws. We need to shake things up, like Macron did.

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Wow. This is pathetic. Russian propaganda arm? False accusations? Where did Trump endorse Le Pen? Because Obama actually endorsed Macron essentially interfering with a foreign country's election. And I'm assuming everyone here is so against that right?

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I did it with Trump too, won 700€. Won't bet on Le Pen because Trump winning propably taught lefties in europe that they have to do something themselves.

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The polls were accurate, but Le Pen did worse than the average predicted. Poll Average / Actual Result: Macron: 24 / 24 Le Pen: 22 / 21 Fillon: 20 / 20 Melenchon: 19 / 20 Hamon: 8 / 6

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> Holy shit. How can you call him a traitor when he says colonialism in Algeria was a crime against humanity. Disgusting well, if you think that Jean Marie Le Pen was a fighter in Algeria, you understand why Macron's statement was used against him. FN , while pretending not to be the Petainist, nazi apologist, antisemite homophobic shit it is, still can use the vote of those hard core right wingers nostalgic of the glorious empire.

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I recognize Wilders, Le Pen, and Petry. Who are the other two on the left?

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Do the unemployed themselves vote for Le Pen, though? Unemployed in Germany (30% of working population) voted communists rather than Hitler. It could be that the feeling of decline in general (not per se among unemployed and the poor themselves) is pushing these people towards radical-right alternatives.

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35% of 88% (people who voted for neither Le Pen or Macron) of 75% (actual turnout) So more like 23% of all voters

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I'd say Melenchon has taken a fair few votes from LePen.

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That's Le Pen OP does not know how to form a sentence.

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Because a fetish for benefits and working rights is such a bad thing /s Macron will become as popular as Hollande if he reforms too much

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That's not a good reason because they can just turn it around and say if you want people to live by your rules in your country, you have to live by theirs when you go there. I don't like Le Pen but I support anyone refusing to wear the headscarf because I think their culture is just wrong about that kind of stuff.

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Do you think the traditional right will vote for Mélenchon? In a Le Pen vs. Fillon scenario, the left will likely stay at home or reluctantly chose for Fillon while in a Le Pen vs. Mélenchon scenario the right will not stay home but chose Le Pen over Mélenchon.

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Borth Le pen and Fillon went up??? I will never understand the French.

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Fillon - criminal investigation into the use of government funds to allegedly pay his family members for doing fake jobs. The raid is part of this investigation. https://www.google.com/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/39146848 Le pen - Posted pictures of ISIS brutality as part of her political campaign. This goes against french speech laws, so the french government was trying to take action against her. Le pen claimed diplomatic immunity as a member of the eu parliament, which has revoked her immunity in response. She also faces similar charges to Fillon over the alleged misuse of eu funds to pay her aides. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/02/518127204/marine-le-pen-faces-possible-prosecution-over-graphic-tweets

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Don't you think it makes a pretty long shot ? Le Pen does have chances to be elected (although current political scene is pretty blurry due to Fillon's BS), but after that, she would still have to get France out of NATO and Europe. If (and that's a big if) it actually happens, EU would last for years before falling apart (because Germany).

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How does it feel to know that your antisemitic piece of trash lost to God emperor Macron?

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Le Pen is far behind Macron in a 1v1, but she isn't far behind Fillion, and in the first round no one is currently guaranteed to move on. If it's Le Pen vs Fillion who move on then it's not too far fetched that you'll have a copy of the US election.

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Sounds like a lot of elections recently tbh, dear leader Macron excepted.

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Macron won with 65,5% of the votes. What a coincidence !

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Yes but he didn't win, that's the point, even if people was but look at Trump! I am not trying to say Le Pen will not win, I am saying she will not win at the first round if nothing crazy happen. Melenchon have as much chance as her to win the first round in this case. Do you think she can win 25% of the vote in two week? In this cas Macron can do this, Melenchon can too, and maybe Hamon will too...

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After looking through this guy's history, it's clear that he's incoherent. Ignore him, is what I say. He apparently thinks the reason everyone is hating on Trump is because he's taller and heavier than Macron, thus creating a David and Goliath situation, which I'm sure is not true.

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> Before /r/neoliberal Spends lots of time on reddit on a variety of subreddits, often getting exasperated and angry with other users. > After /r/neoliberal Only visits reddit to thank mr. bernke and up-macron dank centrist memes. Has time for other, more wholesome activities. Uh, thanks I guess.

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Ugh. I know that it shouldn't, but Piketty's endorsement of Melenchon really reflects poorly on him in my eyes. Like, I get that lefties gotta stick together, but he's normalizing the divisive stupidity that so often accompanies them.

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Economically, Le Pen does have a lot of left-wing ideas.

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A lot a misogynist men are salty about this, so Macron is doing awesome.

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Oh. That's pretty ignorant in the cultural differences regarding gender between the two countries. Besides, Clinton had a fairly moderate right-leaning platform. Le Pen is radical right. Not really relatable.

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This guy strikes me as really dangerous. Not because he's such a threat in and of himself (I don't know much about him), but because if the runoff election becomes a far-left candidate against Le Pen, Le Pen has a legitimate chance of winning. I suspect Macron would dominate her but if he doesn't make it, things could get real dicey real fast.

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> 53% would vote Jobbik (far right) > And not like Le Pen, Trump, or even Wilders. Like explicitly anti-Semitic far right. Fuuuuuu...

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>How am I an "idiot"? "Melenchon and Sanders should be sitting in a rotten dank prison." "BTW, Capitalism is more important than democracy." Not even funny anymore.

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That's what it sounds like to me too. The whole Pence conversion therapy thing always seemed like bullshit because it relies on a very extreme interpretation of this sentence.

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I'm actually loving macron and his views on things. Not all things.

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Although her opponents dismiss her, Le Pen is a formidable force in the impending French election. Appealing to populist, anti-European voters as well as millenials, Le Pen has struck a chord in the French electorate that could shake Europe to its core. France is second only to Greece in its dislike of the European Union, surpassing even Britain. Should Le Pen win, it could sound the death knell of the EU.

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Indeed, Mr Hollande. And you have played your part in maintaining or widening the cracks that threaten those things.

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We're desperate for any candidate at all who isn't a complete ultra conservative on all fronts nutjob, which both Le Pen and Fillon are. Social conservatism is bad enough, but eviscerating the state, ruining it fiscally, and fellating corporations is not something most people look forward to.

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Hello Macron! How does it feel knowing you're gonna lose?

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Yeah man, if we don't stop with this Le Penn might win!

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> Marine Le Pen will remain in power at the Front National whatever happens. /u/Exotemporal That's assuming the undergoing lawsuit fail. It probably won't. > I could see Philippot make a grab. And you would be wrong. There are two FN. A northern one, and a southern one. The new "north" part of the party is the one that could vote for Phillipot as they are mostly pissed off labor forces. The southern part would never, ever vote for a gay. They were the one already voting for the father's antisemitic rant.

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That's not to say people don't want something serious to be done about this, it's just that thinking Le Pen would be the only one to do so (let alone do it well) is a fallacy.

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Is there any real danger of Le Pen actually taking power in France? I have to ask because if people weren't constantly reporting on what this nutcase thinks, maybe it would stop legitimizing her and giving people the impression that she's got anything to say that they really want to elect her for.

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By the way ... I live right next to your country (La petite Suisse, dedieu) and I'm all of a sudden hearing a lot about Macron. Do you have a tl;dr version of why he is suddenly that popular? I would have expected the lead socialist candidate to be Valls instead, from my limited understanding of your politics.

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Like Le Pen, he is very anti-establishment and very anti-EU. He is also a communist-endorsed candidate who makes Sanders look like Milton Friedman. Le Pen vs Mélenchon would be the establishment's worst nightmare. Edit: So yeah, my point is: political forces all around the world are shaking not only on the right, but also on the left.

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OP pointed that Macron was looking at Denmark, which GDP grew three times less than France in the last decade.

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Macron was a socialist, as is Hollande. It's the majority party

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Well, what you say is true but Le Pen is trash, so anyone openly supporting her probably deserves getting those downvotes.

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It's more publishing images of their deceased loved ones which they can argue or prove has caused them harm. I imagine the family members of those killed by ISIS don't particularly like being used for Marine Le Pen's political ends, even if it's in defense of herself.

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But imagine a clinton/trump similar situation : fillon/lepen, with an investigation or leaked documents that illustrate strong illegal activity from fillon. Are you absolutely sure she would be massively voted against ? (and yes, the historical chirac/lepen tend to show us it could be the case, but mlp is seen as less dangerous/extrem).

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If Macron doesn't do well, it won't matter. People will get desperate and vote for Le Pen and the like when their concerns are not met. And if it's not Le Pen, it could be someone even more intelligent and well spoken. The European far right has gained a fairly significant following the migrant crisis and increased frequency of terror attacks in the wake of Brexit and the growing popularity for Wilders and Hofer. These 5-10 next years will determine their future.

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Putin just made Macron Merkel's biggest ally in shifting European Union away from Russia

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Are you sure Macron does not, in fact, want to stop the terrorist attacks, too, but is aware enough to know that islamophobia will only worsen the issue?

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> he should tell that he will vote Macron because he really doesn't want Le Pen to win Which is just what he did...

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If you read the article posted by the OP, it says "France’s Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) believes that Russia will help Le Pen by way of bots that will flood the internet with millions of positive posts about Le Pen — and by publishing her opponents’ confidential emails." That's exactly what happened in the US, which was the point of my original post. The links I posted back that up if you care to actually read them.

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beware, Macron have some good ideas, but still is a neo-liberal which is preparing a law against labour rules which protect workers from exploitation...

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In the second Macron takes majority of votes from Fillon, Hamon, Melenchon.

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Obama is no longer president, he can endorse whoever the fuck he wants. If Putin came out and publicy supported Le Pen, that's also fine. Spreading lies, hacking emails, and the other skeevy shit Russia did/does is not ok. How does this need to be fucking explained.

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Marine Le Pen will win France, and France will leave the EU. It will collapse under its own weight. The longer the leftist elite ignores their constituency the more traction hard-right factions get among the citizenry. Soon there will be a rising tide of ultranationalism sweeping across Europe if things keep going the way that they are going now.

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Yeah so LePen is just nothing alike Trump (not saying i root for her either) and Macron is definitely not alike Hollande. Try again

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What's the chance of Hamon/Melenchon quitting and endorsing the other so the left have a shot in the second round?

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I don't judge Le Pen because of her father, I judge her because of her barbaric white nationalist policies.

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George Osborne, though he's temporarily stepped back from frontline politics, is the neoliberal par excellence. Honourable mentions to Obama, Clinton, the other Clinton, Macron, and Italy's renzi.

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Why is she not on vacation in France? They have many beautiful destinations, does she hate her own country? If she was really patriotic, she would be helping small businesses that depend on tourism, not feed the americans. ^ As someone who listens to a lot of french politics, this is typically something she would say about someone else. Just today she criticised Emmanuel Macron for speaking english.

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[Trump propaganda machine trying their hardest to create divisions with Macron's win.](http://www.allenbwest.com/matt-palumbo/france-just-elected-centrist-macron-liberals-might-not-cheer-discover) Bets as to how many Berniechon bros fall for this?

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See how unpatriotic these Macron supporters are? Using an American film reference in French politics?

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Make no mistake, Le Pen vs. Mélenchon would also be an absolute disaster for Europe and the EU. Both want France to leave the EU. I hope Macron wins and radically changes French politics, because maintaining the status quo is at least as dangerous as Le Pen or Mélenchon. And if this doesn't end in a complete clusterfuck, we still have to hope Italy won't vote for M5S in the next election.

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Le Pen is the other side of the same coin. Please, Europe, save yourselves and don't fuck it up like we did.

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No. The word voter does not even appear. It doesn't even talk about electors at all. It's not even about the presidential election, but as I said about the upcoming legislatives. Maybe the google translation is weird enough to make it seem like voter fraud (google translation is notoriously bad when it comes to French). Or they were confused by the 'MinInt' (I was too at first). Maybe they're just idiots. I should mention that I support Macron but I don't see how that would impact the understanding of an email in my mother tongue.

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And a massive proportion of us are here right now, just checking on our Macron memes.

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My second is Peña Nieto, Macron is about third. His smile is little bit weird.

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Wow I'm pleasantly surprised Macron would do this. Hopefully the economic aid doesnt happen until they are defeated, otherwise you are just giving resources to your enemies and aiding them while you fight them. Crush the terrorists, ignore their apologists, then make the place a little better so the migrants can go home.

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> I do think the countries want leadership and money. All the calls for "Eurobonds" have been clear revelations of wanting fiscal transfers without the burden of political integration (and a political body that takes the right for budgetary bungling out of the hands of the troubled states). This has been made clear time and time again since 2008. I think it was Hollande who called for eurobonds or fiscal transfers while insisting at the same time he wouldn't give up an ounce of french sovereignty. That is wanting the cake and eating it ...

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lol. the markets fully expected macron to win and they had adjusted. what was he expecting?? the first round could have been the same if not for melenchon.

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> "Are you right of, what is generally accepted as, center?" Yes "Fascist, literally Hitler." Wrong! We don't call Fillon, Friedman, Jeb!, May, Merkel, Thatcher, and others on the right fascists. It's not a partisan sub.

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Using Kremlin-started hashtags would make them trend, though. It's hard to fight back against Kremlin lies, but probably a good start is mockery of the fact that the Kremlin squeezes what little money the poor inhabitants of Russia have out in taxes and then wastes it on hopeless causes like Marine Le Pen. How come they can pay for this bullshit while the infrastructure of Russia is falling apart?

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I don't know where you are looking, but all live results I see have Macron taking what he was projected to and winning the plurality in the first round.

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Trudeau, Macron, and Merkel form the Free World Oligarchy now.

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I thought Le Pen had stepped down? EDIT: Oh, only as the FN president. Sorry, haven't been keeping up with French elections since the First Round.

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Trump got him back when Macron arrived at the NATO summit though xD

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Of course she would, otherwise she stands no chance of becoming prez. The only thing above Le Pen's xenophobia is their thrive for power.

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Fillon isn't center right, he's a classic right-wing : socially conservative and economically liberal.

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Out of the loop. Why Macron being president is a great thing for Europe?

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