2017 French Election (Macron Wins 66%)

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Flilix said:

Faelco said:
As a French guy, I really don't get why every foreigner seems so worried about Le Pen winning this election (even here in Japan several people talked to me about it). SHE CAN'T. The last time a Le Pen went to the second round (her father 15 years ago), he lost worse than 80/20. Everyone will go to vote Macron to block Le Pen, it will more likely be a 70/30 round (she's more popular than her father). "Who won the first round" doesn't matter at all here, it's a detail. We could maybe talk seriously about Le Pen winning in 15 more years if things keep getting worse. Her only chance would be that everyone think the same thing and won't vote, but that's unlikely.

But the real question is about the parliament elections in a month. Le Pen as usual almost won't get any seat, but Macron himself doesn't have a strong party to back him up, so I'm not sure he'll get a majority. We could still get a classic right-wing parliament, and so government. We'll see...

A classic right-wing parliament isn't too bad. The moderate right usually doesn't take crazy decisions.

I wish the US had a moderate right-wing party...instead, we have complete nutheads who look like the morons you found in the Infowars comment section