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    La Présidentielle 2017: The French Presidential Election Megathread

    n.b. this is the information that I've learnt of and is certainly not an exhaustive list of everything he's said in relation to Islamism. He generally tries to avoid the issue of Islam and prefers to focus on the economic/anti-globalist threat of Le Pen to the middle class, and there's a generic...
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    La Présidentielle 2017: The French Presidential Election Megathread

    The 'establishment' media often leans towards the center-left socialist parties because the established organizations are mostly the products of socialism themselves (i.e. BBC), while the remaining left-wing media outlets tend to be more supportive of social democracy or communism. The...
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    La Présidentielle 2017: The French Presidential Election Megathread

    I think that this is where the support for Le Pen is actually really high. I get the impression that the majority of the far-right voters in Europe don't expect the party to take on full control of government, but rather that it enters a collation with more centrist parties. I expect that if LR...
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    La Présidentielle 2017: The French Presidential Election Megathread

    I found it interesting that Le Pen received less votes in la election presidentielle than what the sondages had found (opinion polls). I compared the opinion polls with the results, and it seems that Fillon (Les Republicains, center-right) and Dupont (DLF, far-right) received more voted that...
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    La Présidentielle 2017: The French Presidential Election Megathread

    Le Pen was always predicted to lose the actual election, even when Fillon was running, but the difference is that it's quite shocking for Europeans to see a far-right candidate become so popular. The majority of European far-right parties tend to poll around 10% to 30%, but importantly they...
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    La Présidentielle 2017: The French Presidential Election Megathread

    Ipsos: Macron: 23.7% Le Pen: 21.7%
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    La Présidentielle 2017: The French Presidential Election Megathread

    Kantar: Macron and Le Pen both have 23%. Fillon and Melenchon both have 19%
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    La Présidentielle 2017: The French Presidential Election Megathread

    In European political culture, far-right parties tend to poll higher at elections than in opinion polls due to the secrecy of the ballot voting procedure, hence it's widely expected that Le Pen will get through to the second round. It's whether Fillon can beat Macron is what people are thinking...
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    La Présidentielle 2017: The French Presidential Election Megathread

    This has been going around on social media sites: Le Pen 32% Fillon 24% Macron 17% Melenchon 14% But I have no idea where it came from.
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    La Présidentielle 2017: The French Presidential Election Megathread

    The legislative election will be interesting. Islamophobia is more demographically widespread in Europe in comparison to the United States, with widespread Islamophobia occurring regardless of age, education level, social class, or locality. A lot of the middle class oppose the pro-muslim...
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    La Présidentielle 2017: The French Presidential Election Megathread

    At 1700, the participation is at 69.42%.
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    La Présidentielle 2017: The French Presidential Election Megathread

    I didn't put this in the opening post since it wasn't officially published and I wasn't aware of the demographics behind it, but a poll was leaked on the night before the election, after the attack in Champs-Elysées, which showed Le Pen and Fillon leading. According to the unpublished opinion...
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    La Présidentielle 2017: The French Presidential Election Megathread

    A "megathread" is essentially created when a major event or topic is about to be discussed in order to prevent multiple threads appearing. I'm quite sure that the "face of Europe's far-right" would be widely discussed everywhere, including DFI.
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    La Présidentielle 2017: The French Presidential Election Megathread

    We will get exit polls at 20:00 CET, so in about three hours time.
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    La Présidentielle 2017: The French Presidential Election Megathread

    She isn't racist towards Indians and East Asians. She looks down on Blacks and Gypsies, and she's been accused of being a closet Anti-Semite due to FN's history of close relations with Nazi movements, but most of her attention is focused on attacking Muslims - something that's tolerated by the...
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    La Présidentielle 2017: The French Presidential Election Megathread

    I thought I'd create this thread for anyone to discuss the election in. The election is special because it's the only major country in Europe where the far-right have a feasible chance of getting into power without the help of other parties (i.e. without alliances). France chooses its...
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