2017 French Presidential Election

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This thread is about France, not Austria.

Yes, but they have similar voting patterns.

Please do not delete stuff that don't fit your personal world-view. There's freedom of speech, no matter if you like that fact or not. Don't behave like Islamo-Fascist Erdogan and the likes ... Thx.

To paraphrase the great Voltaire: on this forum, it is good to delete an Austrian from time to time, in order to encourage the others"

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For the left Melenchon is basically a destructive troll and for the same left his Presidency would be even more disastrous than Hollande's to PS. I'd certainly take him over Le Pen or Fillon, but I'm not sure I wouldn't pick Macron instead if the choice boiled down to the two.

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SFIO eventually transformed into the PS after Defferre's disastrous defeat in 1969. What should PS transform into now?

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I'm not sure if this was mentioned at the time, but two weeks ago, Robert Hue backed Macron.

The first Blairite-communist?

"We are restating our communism in terms..."

That was Wilson, not Blair, but still.

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They should either prohibit publishing all polls or bugger off. This is silly.

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Christ, I'd probably vote Macron over JLM. JLM presidency would be an utter disaster for the French left, making Hollande's year look like nothing happened.

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If Dupont-Aignan somehow passes Hamon, it would be hilarious. Hilarious and sad.

I wouldn't be particularly shocked to see Hamon doing worse than Gaston Defferre in 1969, which was a nail to SFIO's coffin.

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Austrian Chancellor Kern (SPÖ) endorses Macron ... and not Hamon:

http://diepresse.com/home/innenpolitik/5205246/Kern_Ich-bin-kein-Masochist

For all what's worth Pablo Iglesias here endorsed Melenchon, but that was totally expected.

For Kern it's probably "anybody but Le Pen" tan anything else.