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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: 2) by Thexalon on Monday May 08 2017, @07:01PM (1 child)
Which of these incidents are you referring to?
* 2 killed, 6 wounded at a UU Church in Knoxville TN, in 2009, by a Christian activist opposed to the UU's support of gay marriage
* 1 person, George Tiller, killed at his church in Wichita, KS, in 2009, by a Christian group opposed to abortion
* 1 officer shot and killed at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, in 2009, by a white supremacist Christian
* 6 people killed, 4 wounded at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, WI in 2012, by a white supremacist Christian who apparently thought he was attacking Muslims rather than Sikhs
* 3 people killed in Las Vegas, NV, in 2014 by a couple that apparently saw their efforts as continuing the work of Cliven Bundy
* 3 people killed in a shooting at Planned Parenthood in 2015, by a Christian activist opposed to abortion
And of course it's worth noting that by far the largest and most influential terrorist group in the history of the United States has been the KKK, which is thoroughly Christian in its ideology. The line between what is Christian terrorism, what is white-supremacist terrorism, and what is neo-Nazi terrorism is often blurry because of that history.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday May 08 2017, @08:31PM
So about a tenth of an French Islamic truck driver per year in a country (USA) with five times the population and about 2356246112 times the handguns.
Yeah France has a problem.