The French election may come right down to the wire – with populist candidate Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron neck and neck before last night’s debate – which saw Macron’s lead narrow after a mediocre performance rife with cultural appeasement and accusations of taking money from special interests. While some say she has no chance of winning the second round, Goldman Sachs analyst Bobby Vedral says not so fast…
Check out the latest pre-debate poll from The Telegraph:
If I were Macron, I’d worry…
Le Pen quite simply dropped redpills all over the stage:
I want to end immigration, legal and illegal, allowing only 10,000 legal immigrants. We have nothing more to offer them, we have seven million unemployed, we have nine million in poverty, who require all our focus and energy.
Yes today there is humanitarian immigration and economic immigration, an asylum law that is totally abused – but once again the best way to launch a signal that is honest, is that we cannot welcome any more, is to eliminate everything that attracts immigrants; free medical care, housing, etc.
The migrants earn in France, without working, five or ten times what they earn back home. We understand why they come.
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Frontrunner Emmanuel Macron, on the other hand, talked about tolerance and compassion… something the French are fresh out of:
We must strengthen our borders and have a realistic immigration policy, but we must also do our duty…
…When it comes to asylum seekers, I ask that we show a bit of wisdom and stay true to our principles…
Therefore I propose a policy that is rigorous, firm, coordinated, but also in line with our principles.
To which candidate Francois Fillon laid the smackdown:
“I fundamentally disagree with Emmanuel Macron, who has congratulated the German chancellor on her refugee policy”
Hello President Le Pen? If so, goodbye EU and so-long ECB backstop the next time those Greek tax cheats hit the wall.
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I don’t trust the French establishment and/or it’s deep state not to rig the election. I am sure they learned from Brexit. They will not let Brexit happen again. Those who vote decide nothing, those who count votes decide everything /Stalin/.