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Fillon: now favourite to be France's next president
2016-11-28
If conventional wisdom is right, François Fillon’s thumping victory in France's centre-right presidential primaries on Sunday as good as hands him the keys to the Elysée Palace.
The two favorites are Fillon and Le Pen -- a conventional conservative and a hard right activist. Strangely, the left is not doing well in the polls. I can't imagine why -- has something happened to tarnish the lustrous brand of socialism?
But conventional wisdom was turned upside down in the UK’s referendum on EU membership and the US presidential election. Mr Fillon is the favourite now, but there is nothing inevitable about his path to the presidency.

If he is to achieve his ambition, two premises must hold.
Posted by:Steve White

#5  Mr Fillon is the favourite now, but there is nothing inevitable about his path to the presidency.

Just can't quite bring themselves to do what needs to be done, eh?
Posted by: gorb   2016-11-28 23:42  

#4  "But Raj, we are talking about the French."

Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
Posted by: Bangkok Billy   2016-11-28 23:25  

#3  The French media has a long history of keeping public figures sexual peccadiloes under wraps, but I doubt the new media will keep that tradition.
Posted by: phil_b   2016-11-28 18:58  

#2  But Raj, we are talking about the French.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2016-11-28 11:08  

#1  Take the points and bet heavy on Le Pen. Look at the last two major elections (Brexit and Trump), where the majority media lied to you every fucking step of the way and stacked the polls the same way, and bet accordingly. I don't believe these cocksuckers for a fucking second.
Posted by: Raj   2016-11-28 00:46  

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