12-04-2022, 02:21 PM
It isn't looking so good for Macron, with the extreme right having done so well in the first round. So bad in fact that even the French communist, socialist, Green & conservative candidates have now given him their backing so as to keep Marine Le Pen & her merry band of complete bastards out.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220...nst-le-pen
"In a boost for the president, Communist Party candidate Fabien Roussel, Socialist Anne Hidalgo, Yannick Jadot of the Greens and right-wing [i]Les Républicains[/i] candidate Valérie Pécresse said they would vote for him to prevent the far-right leader coming to power.
“So that France does not fall into hatred of all against all, I solemnly call on you to vote on April 24 against the far-right of Marine Le Pen,” Hidalgo said."
https://www.france24.com/en/presidential-election-2022/
Marine le Pen
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...nce-europe
"Le Pen’s meteoric rise in the first-round polls mirrors Zemmour’s decline since the Ukraine invasion.
In mid-February, they were both on about 16%. She is now on 22-24%, with Zemmour slumped at 8-10%. It is one of the great oddities of the campaign that Zemmour has paid dearly for his Putin idolatry but Le Pen – an even more enthusiastic Moscowteer – has not.
Zemmour’s extremism on race and Islam allowed Le Pen to present herself as a mainstream politician close to ordinary people. She spotted early the opportunities provided by low wages and high prices. Since the Ukraine invasion, she has reaped electoral benefits by connecting Russian sanctions – of which she disapproves – to the cost of living."
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220...nst-le-pen
"In a boost for the president, Communist Party candidate Fabien Roussel, Socialist Anne Hidalgo, Yannick Jadot of the Greens and right-wing [i]Les Républicains[/i] candidate Valérie Pécresse said they would vote for him to prevent the far-right leader coming to power.
“So that France does not fall into hatred of all against all, I solemnly call on you to vote on April 24 against the far-right of Marine Le Pen,” Hidalgo said."
https://www.france24.com/en/presidential-election-2022/
Marine le Pen
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...nce-europe
"Le Pen’s meteoric rise in the first-round polls mirrors Zemmour’s decline since the Ukraine invasion.
In mid-February, they were both on about 16%. She is now on 22-24%, with Zemmour slumped at 8-10%. It is one of the great oddities of the campaign that Zemmour has paid dearly for his Putin idolatry but Le Pen – an even more enthusiastic Moscowteer – has not.
Zemmour’s extremism on race and Islam allowed Le Pen to present herself as a mainstream politician close to ordinary people. She spotted early the opportunities provided by low wages and high prices. Since the Ukraine invasion, she has reaped electoral benefits by connecting Russian sanctions – of which she disapproves – to the cost of living."
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)