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posted by on Sunday May 07 2017, @10:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the le-roi-est-mort dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @06:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @06:54PM (#506497)

    So you say they are being terrorists because we fear that they are terrorists?

    Look, if somebody is such a touchy powderkeg that society's refusal to accept them is cause for terrorism, THEN THEY ARE TERRORISTS. We don't fucking care why. We shouldn't feel required to appease these people.

    And yes, they are a problem, even when they don't get all explody. You can kiss LGBT rights goodbye. You can kiss women's rights goodbye. You can kiss freedom of religion goodbye. This is the future of France.

    20 to 30 years from now, there will be massive genocide in Europe. The only thing in question is the winner, which might vary from place to place. There will be neighbor-on-neighbor violence, Rwanda-style. There will be mass migrations. Think "partition of India", "creation of Israel", "Armenian genocide", etc.