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Re:Emmanuel Macron Wins French Presidency in Boost to EU by nafizh on Sunday May 07, 2017 @03:17PM (#14287038)
Relieved to see Le Pen not getting elected. But don't see how an establishment candidate like Macron will deliver for the people. Capitalising on that frustration, again, FN will come back for the 2022 election stronger, leaving only someone like Melenchon calable of defeating them.
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Re:Emmanuel Macron Wins French Presidency in Boost to EU by spiderfarmer on Sunday May 07, 2017 @03:21PM (#14287066)
If the economy does well in the next 4 years, it will not be good for Le Pen. And I think the economy is likely to do better.
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Re:Emmanuel Macron Wins French Presidency in Boost to EU by hyperbovine on Sunday May 07, 2017 @03:22PM (#14287074)
Wouldn't the establishment candidate have been a member of either the Republican or Socialist party? I do not see how you can call Macron a member of the establishment except insofar as he is educated and successful.
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Re:Emmanuel Macron Wins French Presidency in Boost to EU by mamon on Sunday May 07, 2017 @03:30PM (#14287128)
Macron was working in a Rothschild owned bank, in the president Hollande's administration, and also was a ministry in Socialists government - he's really well connected to the establishment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Macron

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Re:Emmanuel Macron Wins French Presidency in Boost to EU by hyperbovine on Sunday May 07, 2017 @03:36PM (#14287168)
Right but my point is that if you preemptively disqualify everybody that held high positions in industry or government, who's left to rule the country? Idiots like Le Pen.
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Re:Emmanuel Macron Wins French Presidency in Boost to EU by mamon on Sunday May 07, 2017 @03:58PM (#14287280)
I didn't say that you should "preemptively disqualify" them, just that calling Macron "anti-establishment candidate" is laughable.

Government and big corporations are the very definition of establishment.

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