Macron Wins French Presidency

Emmanuel Macron has been elected French president with 65+% of the vote over Marine Le Pin. That’s a strong defeat for Le Pen, but she picked up roughly twice what her father Jean-Marie Le Pin (an altogether nastier piece of work) won in his runoff in 2002.

This was the expected result, and it means the EU will be able to hobble on for a bit longer…

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One Response to Macron Wins French Presidency

  1. BigGator5 says:

    It’s worse than that. France may altogether be lost.

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