@tamgirl In the United States, if your definition is correct...the Democrat Socialist Party are conservatives, and the Republicans believe in freedom, individual rights and free enterprise.

@Nimbus They must have Dominion machines, in France!

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@NCCindy We need a third party in the US. Let the extremes right and laft have their demagogues and then the 50 % who can not stand either of the other 2 might vote someone more reasonable in.

@NCCindy This is a problem common to Western Developed nations. The people with the qualities you need for real leadership wont go into politics and those who will are either directly looking for power and total control or without a moral compass and wanting to feather their own nests.😷

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@hippyjoe1955 You are accusing a major European democracy foreign to both you and me, of rigging its election.

It is a very serious accusation, and one for which there is no evidence.

The French had basically three choices: the retiring President and one each from a hard-Left and hard-Right, wing parties. I don't know if there were any others. All three had their ardent supporters in a country with quite deep political divisions, but of the valid votes cast (ballot slips not spoilt deliberately by voters in abstention), Macron happened to gain the most.

Simple as that.

@ArishMell Some worn out clown with a 38% approval rating got 58% of the votes. Yeah nothing to see here. France's elections are lily pure. Too Funny!

@hippyjoe1955 Approval ratings are merely spot surveys that about as useful and accurate a measure as exit-polls. They keep the speculative journalists and pundits busy, but it's the election itself that matters, and since President Macron heads a government that is neither yours nor mine, our personal views about his character and ability are not relevant. Mere insults mean even less.

What does matter is his Government's foreign policies that may affect our countries' relationships with France.

I don't know what the left-wing bloke wanted France to do but we all know Marinne Le Pen is opposite to Macron in being isolationist, apparently pro-Kremlin, and largely anti-NATO and anti-EU; which are internationally important matters.

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@smiler2012 well Delboy does a good impersonation of speaking French

@tamgirl Hmmmmmmm I guess you didnt see the video of the votes disappearing on live TV did ya? But call it BS, if that makes you feel good.

@cherokeepatti and where can I see these disappering votes?

@tamgirl it’s on video

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@Elessar When will the result be known?

@Nimbus I've no idea. If it works like down here, tomorrow morning I guess.

@Nimbus https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2022/04/24/macron-wins-french-presidential-election_5981506_5.html

@Dlrannie But do you care? ;)

@Nimbus So long as Le Pen looses I’m cool 😂😂

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