French National elections begin Apr 23; the right's chances slim

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  1. whatsupdoc

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    The French national elections begin with the 1st round on April 23. If no one wins outright in 1st round(most likely result), there will be a runoff election on May 7. Marine Le Pen, the far right candidate will do well in 1st round, but unlikely to win in the runoff. The right center or left center candidate(whoever she faces in runoff) are very heavy favorites. The main wildcard in the election will be if there are any Islamic terrorist attacks close to the elections. That would be a huge boost for Le Pen. The UK Brexit results make some of the polling suspect for French elections. It should be interesting to see if anti-muslim sentiment in the EU continues to grow and affects the election.

    Info on election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_presidential_election,_2017

    Odds of who wins: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/02/daily-chart-20
     
  2. Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson Well-Known Member

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    Yeah. Le Pen is toast. Macron will defeat her.
     
  3. Ole Ole

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    French best choose are leave Nato and euron then le pen must remains in eu. What she wannabe ?! But nazi is one better nationalism for my interest even french aren't nazi types ? :beer: :beer:
     
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    Like your predictions are worth a pixel. Le Pen is going to win and I base that solely on your prediction.
     
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    lemmiwinx Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I bet Marine Le Pen has about as much chance of winning as Donald Trump.


    We can hope so at least can't we?
     

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