French Presidential and Legislative Elections 2017-News and Updates

[AUz]

Hoping for a Macron victory.

Hopefully French are smart enough to reject populist con(wo)man Le Pen.

Dutch stopped their conman in it's tracks. It's time for France and then Germany to lead the way.

 

[Vergennes]

The French election process explained

https://www.ft.com/content/74656cb6-fbe3-369d-9072-df0529ed7d48

 

[T-123456]

The French election process explained

https://www.ft.com/content/74656cb6-fbe3-369d-9072-df0529ed7d48

Who is your favorite and who do you predict to win?

 

[Vergennes]

Who is your favorite and who do you predict to win?

Probably Macron. The coming weeks and debates will be important in my final choice. I always supported Fillon,but the fake jobs scandal he is embroiled with bothers me.

As for who will win,I predict the first round to be won by Marine Le Pen and Macron. Then Macron will win by a large margin the second round. The French voters have generally always been coherant during the general elections,and will give Macron and En Marche! a majority.

Of course,the election remains totally unpredictable + a large part of the voters (~40%) remain still undecided,so take it with a pinch of salt.

 

[Vergennes]

@Taygibay @Louiq XIV

Sometimes,there are some streets you just have to avoid....

Spoiler

 

[Louiq XIV]

@Taygibay @Louiq XIV

Sometimes,there are some streets you just have to avoid....

Ha! Ha! Ha! great one.

But in fact it should be ...

Yeah I know I have to develop my photoshop skills

 

[Vergennes]

@Taygibay @Louiq XIV

What do you think about the candidate of La France Insoumise (The Unsubmissive France) ? Jean-Luc Mélenchon ? There seems to be a good dynamic around him recently and is even neck to neck with (if not overtaking) Fillon in certain opinion polls,also to the detriment of the Socialist Benoît Hamon.

French far-left firebrand’s campaign of revenge

http://www.politico.eu/article/jean...brand-campaign-of-revenge-election-president/

@LA se Karachi @Philia Seems like the candidate is gaining momentum. His popularity is increasing after the last TV debate where he well defended his project and ideas + obliterating the other candidates. His meetings are gathering lot of people too.

A fun fact : He became viral after being present at two rallies at the same moment,but in different places..... how ?
With an hologram !

 

[HannibalBarca]

@Taygibay @Louiq XIV

What do you think about the candidate of La France Insoumise (The Unsubmissive France) ? Jean-Luc Mélenchon ? There seems to be a good dynamic around him recently and is even neck to neck with (if not overtaking) Fillon in certain opinion polls,also to the detriment of the Socialist Benoît Hamon.

French far-left firebrand’s campaign of revenge

http://www.politico.eu/article/jean...brand-campaign-of-revenge-election-president/

@LA se Karachi @Philia Seems like the candidate is gaining momentum. His popularity is increasing after the last TV debate where he well defended his project + obliterating the other candidates. His meetings are gathering lot of people too.

A fun fact : He became viral after being present in two rallies at the same moment,but in different places..... how ?
With an hologram !

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If NO Melenchon+Hamon before elction = Whatever momentum he has, he lose.

Yet it's still the mirror of Le Pen, too much radical for the majority of leftist and even more for the center-Right...

Poll
Macron then Lepen ( 1-2 pt btw them) Then Fillion( 19%) and Melonchon( around 15%) then Hamon ( 11-12%)

 

[LA se Karachi]

@Taygibay @Louiq XIV

What do you think about the candidate of La France Insoumise (The Unsubmissive France) ? Jean-Luc Mélenchon ? There seems to be a good dynamic around him recently and is even neck to neck with (if not overtaking) Fillon in certain opinion polls,also to the detriment of the Socialist Benoît Hamon.

French far-left firebrand’s campaign of revenge

http://www.politico.eu/article/jean...brand-campaign-of-revenge-election-president/

@LA se Karachi @Philia Seems like the candidate is gaining momentum. His popularity is increasing after the last TV debate where he well defended his project and ideas + obliterating the other candidates. His meetings are gathering lot of people too.

A fun fact : He became viral after being present at two rallies at the same moment,but in different places..... how ?
With an hologram !

View attachment 388229

It's interesting to see him rising in the polls. This has been an odd election cycle indeed. He may overtake Hamon, but I would be surprised if he surpassed Fillon's vote share. Though with each passing week, Fillon's poll numbers seem to get a little worse as the scandal sinks in. So, who knows? Anything is possible, I suppose.

What is clear though, is that Macron and Le Pen are the front-runners to take the top two spots in the first round.

 

[Taygibay]

See it this way, guys : it is a special election
due to the outgoing president's record that
ensures the PS will finish last, no matter what.

For leftists as HanniB remarked, the split is
logically favouring the further left with only
stalwart partisans voting PS especially with
the mentioned mirror effect to Le Pen's FN.
Do note the conspicuous absence of words
like communism from Melanchon's discourse
that would mentally block many a voter?

Meanwhile, Macron is going right from that
PS position and has been for a while. At the
same time one year ago, his law project for
work and work fiscality had already pushed
the boundaries of les socialistes, getting him
a few rebukes and more for being too Right?

( pun intended )​

Emmanuel the well named got many rallying
from both sides ( as Valls, also a right leaning socialist )
and outshining the remaining smooth 'n slippery
as soap bars center candidates was effortless.

But do remember that France's presidential vote
takes two turns and that us French know that ...
so IMHoO, what we're witnessing is a strange for
outsiders but locally logical situation : for the 1st
turn, people vote in reaction to the past 5 years
with more force than usual because they already
know that in the second turn they'll have to vote
utilitarian.

There is one immense bug with that in the sense
that there could be disaffection in those that just
voted for more change, that they might feel like
voting Macron after voting Melanchon is akin to
being shortchanged and vote in lesser numbers
when it will count most.

And yes, there are ways for abstention rates /
participation to cut enough into that blocking vote
to allow for an FN victory even without 50% support.

Can't wait for it to be over honestly, Tay.

 

[Vergennes]

Hoping for a Macron victory.

Hopefully French are smart enough to reject populist con(wo)man Le Pen.

Dutch stopped their conman in it's tracks. It's time for France and then Germany to lead the way.

Could Marine Le Pen become France's next president?

www.france24.com/en/20170330-france-could-far-right-marine-le-pen-become-french-president-glass-ceiling-macron


The grassroots 'guerilla army' powering Macron's French election battle

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ch-presidential-candidate-grassroots-movement

 

[Mage]

Well it looks to me that Melenchon is a better candidate than Hamon. I also noticed that he's neck to neck with Fillon and they way Fillon's numbers are sliding I wouldn't be surprised if Melenchon actually gets more vote than Fillon.

Anyway things looks all set for a Le Pen Macron finale where things don't look favourable to Mademoiselle.

 

[Vergennes]

Well it looks to me that Melenchon is a better candidate than Hamon. I also noticed that he's neck to neck with Fillon and they way Fillon's numbers are sliding I wouldn't be surprised if Melenchon actually gets more vote than Fillon.

Anyway things looks all set for a Le Pen Macron finale where things don't look favourable to Mademoiselle.

@LA se Karachi I've observed some people who were handing over (or trying at least) leaflets for Fillon,and almost nobody took them,sometimes people screaming on them or had massive negative opinions about the candidate. Even heard "give the money back". I felt pretty bad for them as everyone were literally rejecting their anger on them. These unpaid volunteers who give their free time for their candidate shouldn't be treated as such just because he did bad things. They remained very nice and polite. I felt sad for them so I took one leaflet.

This shows nonetheless that Fillon's image was severely damaged after the affair was revealed.
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Some young and pretty nice Macron volunteers went on knock on door operation to hand their leaflets and talk about their candidate. Was surprised to also see our former Socialist mayor. I think he jumped from the sinking Socialist ship something like that,like many others.

 

[HannibalBarca]

Moment détente.

LePen under the Beautiful Sun

Melenchon Lupus Rex

Fillion ille Pu Rex

Macaron Ex Machina...

The True, The Only, The Great. ( He was running for President)
Durif Deus Rex

Stultus Rex or Regina... at that moment he lost against Tariq Omnius Ramadanus Rex...

I will eat you dry...

 

[Vergennes]

Moment détente.

LePen under the Beautiful Sun

Melenchon Lupus Rex

Fillion ille Pu Rex

Macaron Ex Machina...

The True, The Only, The Great. ( He was running for President)
Durif Deus Rex

Stultus Rex or Regina... at that moment he lost against Tariq Omnius Ramadanus Rex...

I will eat you dry...

Excellent.