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Forums - Politics Discussion - 2017 French Election (Macron Wins 66%)

 

Who do you think will be the next President of France?

Macron 167 69.87%
 
Le Pen 72 30.13%
 
Total:239

Go Le Pen!



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Flilix said:
p0isonparadise said:
Voter turnout at 65.3% at 5pm.

http://www.france24.com/en/20170507-liveblog-live-france-presidential-election-macron-le-pen-second-round-run-off

I didn't even know voting isn't compulsory in France.

I think the only european countries where voting is compulsory are Belgium, Luxembourg and Greece



Bofferbrauer said:
Flilix said:

I didn't even know voting isn't compulsory in France.

I think the only european countries where voting is compulsory are Belgium, Luxembourg and Greece

I've always thought voting is compulsory in most countries, but apparently that's not true at all.



Flilix said:
Bofferbrauer said:

I think the only european countries where voting is compulsory are Belgium, Luxembourg and Greece

I've always thought voting is compulsory in most countries, but apparently that's not true at all.

It's true for Australia and much of central and south america, but otherwise it's pretty rare



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Flilix said:
Bofferbrauer said:

I think the only european countries where voting is compulsory are Belgium, Luxembourg and Greece

I've always thought voting is compulsory in most countries, but apparently that's not true at all.

If I were forced to vote, I'd just vote for the most absurd thing possible.



VGPolyglot said:
Flilix said:

I've always thought voting is compulsory in most countries, but apparently that's not true at all.

If I were forced to vote, I'd just vote for the most absurd thing possible.

Why? You could vote for the communist party.



Flilix said:
VGPolyglot said:

If I were forced to vote, I'd just vote for the most absurd thing possible.

Why? You could vote for the communist party.

Yeah, like communism would ever happen through elections within the system!



Polls closing! Final VGC results.

Macron 69 61.06%

Le Pen 44 38.94%

Total: 113



Macron estimated winner with 65%!