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| Europe |
| German foreign minister hails French results, 'sure' Macron will be president |
| 2017-04-24 |
| Germany's Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Sunday hailed projected results in France's first-round presidential vote putting centrist Emmanuel Macron ahead of far-right leader Marine Le Pen. The Social Democrat said he was "sure" Macron would be elected president in the run-off on May 7. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Marine Le Pen stepped down on Monday as head of France’s National Front Party, a move experts say is one meant to position her so as to embrace a wider framework of voters, per Fox News. The move comes after a split election result over the weekend, which means Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron will face one another in a runoff in May. “Tonight, I am no longer the president of the National Front. I am the presidential candidate,” she said on French public television news. Le Pen has said in the past that she is not a candidate of her party, and made that point when she rolled out her platform in February, saying the measures she was espousing were not her party’s, but her own. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2017-04-24 16:22 |
| #2 Now, now, G(rom), tsk tsk. Sudetenland first. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-04-24 08:20 |
| #1 If not, the Wehrmacht will march? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-04-24 04:19 |