NormanH
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That in all these elections the winning side have had a minority of votes.
That gives a context for comments about the validity or otherwise of Macron's election.
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1 hour ago, cajal said:
The significance of these statistics to residents of France would be??
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A few figures.
Registered voters: 48,700000
Voted for Macron 18,779641
On a similar number of voters in the UK
Conservative votes in the 2019 election: 13,966,565
Votes for leave in the Brexit referendum 17,410,742
Neither of those was a majority of registered voters and both have been accepted.
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I have no problem accessing the articles, not the ones in The Telegraph that you sometimes say you can't read Nick...
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I remember him in Cinema Paradiso with Philippe Noiret, another of my favourite French actors, now passed away.
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LeMonde has a good page where one can compare the policies of the two candidates in Sunday's second round of elections
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In Béziers yesterday. It's a Facebook link to a series of quite a few photographs which give a good idea of the event, but I don't know if people who don't use FB can see them...
https://www.facebook.com/ville.debeziers/photos/pcb.5144051408966887/5144046235634071
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I was paricularly struck by the hats.....hardly anyone wears a "proper" hat these days...
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Some quotations in case the article is behind a paywall:
"Le Pen has a fair chance of scooping up the neglected constituency of the old left, and that could swing the final outcome on April 24. Her economic agenda is a celebration of the welfare state and the French social model.
She backed the protest of trade unions against the reform of the pension system in 2019, and again last year over the weakening of unemployment protection, describing President Macron’s policies as “shameful, economically stupid, inhumane, and unjust”.
Her plan is a mix of Keynesian big spending and redistribution towards the working poor and young families, those suffering an erosion of real living standards long before commodity inflation hit them with a hammer blow.
She has married left-wing economics with law-and-order nationalism to make a very potent political brew. "
"Le Pen has been turning her party into a statist, anti-globalist, defender of the Modèle Français ever since taking charge in 2011"
"Le Pen has not abandoned her right-wing policies on immigration, nor her defence of France’s cultural terroir. She remains a nationalist to the core, and an implacable foe of Jean Monnet’s European project. She will endeavour to undermine the primacy of EU law and the hegemony of the Commission from within.
One might argue that her agenda smacks of national socialism, but there is no mileage in trying to evoke loose parallels with the 1930s. Le Pen is competing at the ballot box and under the rule of law. Nobody suggests that she plans a 1933 Enabling Act or a French police state once inside the Élysée Palace.
Her ideological enemies are Anglo-Saxon globalist capitalism and the EU superstate in equal measure.
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Even the Telegraph sees MLP as a National Socialist!
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I did it and came up with someone who won't win, but then I expected that.
There was a similar one in LeFigaro but the questions were a little different.
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I have booked mine for this morning.
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15 hours ago, Ken said:
Why Norman you excel yourself! Not a link to be seen! A whole sentence without one! I know it's a strain and Google is so much easier than thinking isn't it? Anyway, a start perhaps difficult though it is for the cerebral bits to actually work!! Perhaps 5 for effort!
You prove my point. ?
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Your posts serve no useful purpose except to perpetuate your delusions of the importance of Windbag Wheatley's unsubstantiated assertions. When useful information is needed a link to the relevant authority is useful; but when that is called for you fall back on uninformed ignorance.
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That is the one I was referring to.
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Don't expect Ken to read a link! He only wants to express his opinions...
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The devil may be in the detailRéserver les allocations aux Français et lutter contre la fraudeLa candidate souhaite que « toutes les allocations et primes de politique familiale » soient réservées exclusivement aux familles dont au moins l’un des deux parents est français
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33 minutes ago, Harnser said:
If you want to know what MLP's manifesto and policies are use this link. It's her official plan without journalistic spin. Remember, scribblers always try to influence your opinion with their opinion.
I read her plan before the last, election, there was nothing that could be described as remotely extreme about it.
https://mlafrance.fr/pdfs/manifeste-m-la-france-programme-presidentiel.pdf
But if she wins it will be with the support of Zemmour and his supporters, who will form part of her government. His campaign was there to draw the fire away from her, making her seen relatively only mildly fascist, but that would come roaring rabidly back were she to get in. Remember too that her 'programme' is populist in that it promises social benefits (which would ruin the economy) for nationals... a true Nationam Socialsm
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Did you have that nice Auberge near Salars?
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Attitude Problems?
in The Complete France Post Bag
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Not only the attitude, but the continual returning variants oh the same old France/Europe/Macron bashing theme.
This is supposed to be a Forum for FrancoPHILES, where we can share information gleaned from experience of our lives here, to help others.