Macron wins re-election in France
In a victory that was not a surprise, Macron defeats Marine Le Pen:
Macron’s victory over Le Pen—with 58.2% of the vote to her 41.8%, according to estimated results released at 8 p.m. local time after polls closed—was significantly smaller than the two politicians’ last face-off in 2017. Back then, 39-year-old Macron shot to power as an outsider, with a 32-point lead over Le Pen, by promising to modernize what he called a sclerotic, over-regulated country…
Macron, 44…is the first French leader in 20 years to win reelection—since 2002, when then-president Jacques Chirac won against Le Pen’s rabidly anti-immigrant father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who faced a wall of opposition that blocked his path to power.
Macron managed that despite barely campaigning for months, preferring instead to play the global statesman in the buildup to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Then over just a few weeks, Macron sprinted across France, warning voters that a Le Pen presidency would ravage their cherished humanist principles, and render the 27-country E.U. untenable…
Yet even so, his shrunken margin of 16.4% of victory signals the fraught political divide he now faces…
Le Pen made it clear her party would immediately begin campaigning for parliamentary seats. “Our historic score puts our camp in an excellent position,” she said in her concession speech Sunday night.
Not only that, but here’s a very familiar divide:
The economic inequality translated into a deep political divide in the election, with about 71% of professional voters choosing Macron, and 69% of working-class voters picking Le Pen, according to the polling company Elabe on Sunday night…
…[M]ore than half the voters in the election’s first round on April 10 chose, among 12 candidates, far-right or far-left politicians— a reflection of widespread anxiety and discontent with mainstream politics. “There is a sense of decline,” Nicolas Becuwe, senior director of Kantar Public in Brussels, said on Thursday, during an online presentation of the polling company’s data across the E.U. “France is the most pessimistic country in all of Europe.”
One problem for Le Pen in this election – and an especially ill-timed one, at that – is that she has long been Putin-friendly and is in favor of France’s withdrawing from NATO. Also, turnout was rather low, with many people not liking either candidate. Macron may have won by a wide margin, but he’s not beloved:
…Macron remains a deeply unpopular figure among a large proportion of the population…
…Euronews takes a look at some of the challenges ahead.
Five of them are listed in the article, including this one:
Macron may face a backlash, despite his victory…
The first round of the presidential election confirmed three newly entrenched blocs in France’s new political landscape: Macron’s pro-European centrists, Le Pen’s nationalist insurgency, and Mélenchon’s hard left.
Broadly, each has the backing of around a third of the public…
France is a very divided nation despite the decisive results in this particular election.
The author and her editors are purveyors of mediocrity.
What appears to be happening in France is that the conventional taxa of political life are being reconstituted. This has happened elsewhere in Europe and in Israel as well.
The common postwar model was that you had one set of parties with with Marxism in their pedigree and affiliated with the labor unions. On the other side, you had an omnibus of their opponents, usually descended from a number of strands – pre-WWi Whig-liberal parties, pre-WWi conservative parties, agrarian parties, and pre-WWii Catholic parties and a co-operative relationship with trade associations and / or Catholic labor unions. In the Anglosphere (and in Israel as well), the Marxism was usually absent or a later infestation.
Nowadays, the polarity is shaping up to be the nationalist v. social-liberal parties, with the descendants of Marxism evaporating or reduced to an odd minority strand. The social conservative dispensation tends to line up with the nationalists.
the administrative state will not allow us to be self governed, macron was a functionary and an schwab minion, the people must be dissolved and a new one must be elected in their place,
with trump every obstacle was put in his way, every fraud, every artifice, every path is left open for this gang of pirates, who are casing the country, and looting it blind it’s not unlike the oligarch formation in post soviet republics,
Well the elites in the EU are happy as are joe Bidet and his puppet masters.
Now if they can only figure out a way to get rid of Hungary’s Orban; that would be a cause for celebration amongst the Euro elites.
Marine LePen’s comments about withdrawing from NATO is nothing new for France. Recall that France opted out of NATO in 1966 (a decision made by Charles DeGualle) and rejoined NATO in 2009 (under Sarkozy).
they failed at that, despite all of soros and schwab’s efforts, in true alinsky way, the y hope to overwhelm both poland and hungary’s safety nets, that is the secondary purpose of this conflict,
the beatings will continue, the green vests will rise again, but they know the lesson from canada, they must learn their place,
furthermore is zemmour, had been the chief opponent, he would not be allowed to form a government, he has been a critic of globalism, as well, the socialists were in bad order, so macron was volunteered funding arranged and the gaullist candidate, fillon was found to be in violation of some rule, and sent away, the desire to be ruled, is intoxicating among the credentialed class, no matter how disastrously this last era has proven itself,
Macron is a little boy playing at president.
LePen is at least a strong nationalist. Her “like” of Putin is ephemeral. Lots of politicos like and then do not like others, so I find it irrelevant.
In choosing globalist Macron, the voters have chosen the continuation of France’s Islamization. It will not end well for them.
This post by Christopher Caldwell made a lot of sense of the French election.
https://unherd.com/2022/04/why-macron-seems-invincible/
“Until the President’s enemies stop squabbling, his politics will dominate”
This post by Not the Bee was just kind of sad.
https://notthebee.com/article/lol-watch-biden-confess-that-frances-newly-re-elected-emmanuel-macron-didnt-take-his-phone-call-last-night
Why not just surrender to the Germans again and call it a day?