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Emmanuel Macron has been declared the President of France after early vote counts:
France has a new president. Emmanuel Macron – an independent centrist who has never held elected office – has won a resounding victory over far-right, nationalist Marine Le Pen in the most important French presidential race in decades, according to early vote counts by the French Interior Ministry.
In early returns, Macron had won an estimated 65 percent of the vote to Le Pen's nearly 35 percent, according to the French Interior Ministry. Le Pen has already called to congratulate Macron and conceded defeat to a gathering of her supporters in Paris.
Also at The Guardian (live), Washington Post, NYT, Reuters, and The Local.
From CNBC: Euro hits six-month high on Macron victory
CNN editorial: Why Macron's victory is reassuring ... and yet not
BBC has an article about Macron's potential choice of Prime Minister.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @01:51PM (2 children)
FYI, estimates of casualties as a consequence of e.g. the IRA, are amounting to 2000 during ca. 30 years. ETA was responsible to about 900 over a somewhat longer period (since 1960 i think).
Then, wikipedia lists 400 deaths in France due to terror since the 1970, and not all of those where because of ISIS or similar groups.
So far, it seems what you say is BS, though if they keep it up they may outdo their Christian competitors.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday May 08 2017, @08:35PM (1 child)
The IRA had nothing to do with religion, it just happens that the English have been trying to genocide the Irish race for a couple centuries, with some success here and there, and virtually all the English are prots or atheists and virtually all the Irish are catholics or atheists.
Its like claiming green beer causes terrorism because those darn IRA, LOL.
Actually a nearly perfect analogy would be to claim the sole cause of the American Civil War was the northerners were mostly prots or progs and the southerners tend baptist, so clearly the american civil war only happened because of religion.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @10:15PM
>The IRA had nothing to do with religion,
About as much as ISIS has to do with it.
Also, you missed the point.