French Elections 2017

Le Pen to Visit Moscow as Russia Calls Her Political ‘Realist’

Marine Le Pen is to visit Moscow on Friday as Russia hailed the French presidential candidate as a realist who opposes globalization along with U.S. President Donald Trump.

The National Front leader will hold talks with State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin and lawmakers “at my personal invitation,” Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the international relations committee in Russia’s lower house of parliament, said, according to the Interfax news service. They’ll discuss the fight against terrorism and issues of Russian-French cooperation, he said.
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What a Le Pen Win Would Look Like

Interesting campaign strategy:

According to her team, Ms. Le Pen expects to win a plurality and eliminate lesser rivals in Round 1 by sweeping up protest votes. For the head-to-head contest in Round 2, however, she will focus relentlessly on Mr. Macron’s privileged background and his close ties to the departing president, François Hollande, who has historically low approval ratings.

Ms. Le Pen’s team hopes that Mr. Macron’s economic liberalism will encourage traditional left-wingers either to abstain or back her own protectionist message, which is wrapped in the theme of national preference, the idea of putting native French workers first and introducing additional taxes on contracts for foreign employees. Ms. Le Pen’s populist rallying cry also includes promises to start a re-industrialization and to push back against global corporations like Ikea, forcing them to buy commodities locally and pay higher taxes if they hire non-French workers.

Ms. Le Pen, officials said, will also attack Mr. Macron from the right, arguing that he is soft on the perceived threat from Islam and jumping on his recent statement about multiculturalism and diversity in France — that “there is not a French culture” — to tempt older traditional conservatives.

Assuming all this strategizing works — and even against the backdrop of 2016, that is still a stretch — what would a Le Pen victory mean for France, and for Europe?
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In the short term, a National Front win would throw the European Union into a deep crisis. Political scientists have argued that over the past two decades, people’s attitudes toward the union have passed through two stages: from broad acceptance in the 1960s and ’70s to an instinctive skepticism from the ’80s onward. A victory for Ms. Le Pen, coming after Brexit, would underscore that Europeans have now arrived at a third phase: active rebellion.
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Chris_the_Brit said:
What a Le Pen Win Would Look Like

Interesting campaign strategy:
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That's very wishful of her but there is a major showstopper.

In France, the president will be elected directly on May 7.

Then there will be direct MP elections (each person elects a MP for his ward).

The government must be proposed by the President and approved by the Parliament, so a President without Parliament is purely useless and close to no powers.

The right will never enter in a coalition with her and she needs to get the majority of 577 MP, currently they have 1 MP and like 3 MP voting with their MP.
 
Unhappy438 said:
Of course Russia calls her a realist, shes their shill.
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Oh come on, that's ridiculous.

She's a nationalist and a statist-collectivist, (which is an isotope of socialism), believing government should have the main economic say.

It's utterly simplistic and just plain wrong to say she's a shill for Russia.

Other than on exiting the Lisbon EU, I certainly don’t support her one bit and think her policies would be disastrous for France.
 
konfab said:
It is Realpolitik. The world deals with far worse people than Putin.
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Right we should celebrate that its not Kim Jong Un or Bashar al-Assad.

Arthur said:
Oh come on, that's ridiculous.

She's a nationalist and a statist-collectivist, (which is an isotope of socialism), believing government should have the main economic say.

It's utterly simplistic and just plain wrong to say she's a shill for Russia.

Other than on exiting the Lisbon EU, I certainly don’t support her one bit and think her policies would be disastrous for France.
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Call it whatever you want, they provide her campaign with money and she acts favorably towards them.
 
Unhappy438 said:
Right we should celebrate that its not Kim Jong Un or Bashar al-Assad.



Call it whatever you want, they provide her campaign with money and she acts favorably towards them.
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She actually is very close to Bashar as well ;)
 
The US Senate intelligence committee is worried regarding the "deep involvement" of Russia in the french elections.
 
Le Pen wanted millions more from Russia

Revelations that Marine Le Pen tried to borrow a further €3 million from Russia pose questions on Kremlin interference in the French election.

Mediapart, a French investigative website, revealed on Friday (31 March) that Le Pen, the French anti-EU and far-right candidate, agreed to borrow the funds in order to finance her campaign.

The website published an internal document of her National Front party, showing that she and party chiefs on 15 June last year decided to borrow €3 million from Strategy Bank in Russia at an interest rate of 6 percent per year to be repaid in 2018.

It said the “purpose of the borrowed money” was “financing the electoral campaign”.

Mediapart also published a second National Front document, which said the funds were to be used for election “expenses” and were to be wired to a bank account opened in Le Pen’s name.
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Le Pen going Holocaust revisionist, too.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/le-pen-says-france-not-responsible-wwii-jew-183420366.html

Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen denied Sunday that the French state was responsible for the wartime round-up of Jews at a Paris cycling track who were then sent to Nazi death camps.

Former President Jacques Chirac and current leader Francois Hollande have both apologised for the role French police played in the round-up of more than 13,000 Jews at the Vel d'Hiv cycling track which was ordered by Nazi officers in 1942.

But Le Pen told the LCI television channel on Sunday: "I don't think France is responsible for the Vel d'Hiv."

She added: "I think that generally speaking if there are people responsible, it's those who were in power at the time. It's not France."
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