Macron to become next President of France

[Giovanna_]

What's Macron's plan to stop it?

 

[Silmarien]

I know both he and Le Pen were planning on increasing the police force significantly. Beyond that, I'm not really sure. I was listening to the debate, but my French comprehension isn't quite good enough to understand adults screaming over each other like 5 year olds.

 

[LoAmmi]

Okay. So I guess banning that religion is our only option.

If the solution to a problem you come up with is to oppress people, then your solution is bad.

 

[variant]

Let's just throw this out...how did he win by landslide when he didn't win outright and needed a run off?

The French election system always has a run off.

The first race was split four ways. When it was a question between the two of them he won in a land slide as he was the most popular second choice from the two candidates that did not appear on the final ballot.

Each of those two men got around 20% of the vote and La Pen Got 21% Where Macron had 24%.

La Pen got about 1,000,000 more votes in the first round this time than she did in the last election.

 

[mala]

Lots of options...
Campaign manager's fault
Chauvinism
Media
Global warming
French public too stupid

Holocaust denial
being a bigot
party having nazi sympathies
yep lot's of options

 

[Hetta]

Europeans, both here and abroad being somehow wrong for wanting to keep their heritage and culture doesn't make sense to me. Why is that wrong?

We keep our heritage and culture, but that has nothing to do with anything.

 

[Hetta]

Nobody in France is pretending that nothing's happening.

I crossed the Spanish border last fall and they definitely stopped the bus and checked everyone's passports to see where you'd been recently. There's been a declared State of Emergency there for the past year and a half.

Just wait for those who will tell you that just because you've lived (currently live?) in Europe and have visited the country, or even if you live in the country in question, you'll still be told that you're ignorant of what's really going on. I saw a Swedish person on these forums being told that s/he didn't know the truth of the situation in Sweden. Those YouTube videos are far more authoritative than a real human being's experience.

 

[Silmarien]

Just wait for those who will tell you that just because you've lived (currently live?) in Europe and have visited the country, or even if you live in the country in question, you'll still be told that you're ignorant of what's really going on. I saw a Swedish person on these forums being told that s/he didn't know the truth of the situation in Sweden. Those YouTube videos are far more authoritative than a real human being's experience.

Haha, that goes both ways! I had a host father in Spain inform me that the police were just shooting Mexicans who tried to cross the border into the U.S. Conflating a couple separate issues there, but what do I know!

 

[mindlight]

Double post

 

[mindlight]

Thank God not Le Pen.

Macron to become next French president after beating back Le Pen and her populist tide

Not perfect, but better than.

As you said not a perfect choice but better than handing France to Le Pens nationalists. 16 million abstentions mean that the parliamentary vote may be less of a landslide. Having won the presidency will Macron have enough to govern with or will he have to use his charm to create cross party consensus?