Exit Polls: Le Pen, Macron Move On To Run-Off Election In France

[HAPPY2BME]

PARIS — Centrist Emmanuel Macron and populist Marine Le Pen will go up against each other in a run-off election May 7 after finishing first and second, respectively, in Sunday’s presidential election in France.

Exit polls gave Macron 23.7 percent with Le Pen as a close second at 21.7 percent. Communist-backed Jean-Luc Melenchon and conservative Francois Fillion were tied in third place at 19 percent.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/23/exit-polls-le-pen-macron-move-on-to-run-off-election-in-france/#ixzz4f8Uil8C0

[Drafe Hoblin]

Le Pen wins easy.  Another poll already had her at 24% over Macron's 22%, who already received 'the phonecall of death' from obama...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/22/obama-gently-waded-back-politics-speaks-phone-left-leaning-presidential-candidate-macron/

Looks like obama's going Mr. Rogers on the World... " Let's pretend you liked me and I mattered. "

[DumbAss Tanker]

By 'Centrist' they mean 'Not the furthest Left candidate.'  He was in Hollande's administration, and is pretty much totally a Socialist.  He is, unfortunately, likely to win because the total of all the Leftie factions together definitely outnumbers Le Pen, who already represents a consolidated Right-wing coalition, and the Left is likely to coalesce around Macron now that the herd has been culled.  He seems like a White Obozo - photogenic unknown quantity, a blank screen upon which the voter can project his or her own variation of Leftist ideology.

[HAPPY2BME]

Pamela Anderson presses French presidential candidates on Julian Assange

Former "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson wants to put France's presidential candidates on the record about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Anderson sent several tweets Wednesday asking what conservative candidate Francois Fillion and centrist Emmanuel Macron would do for Assange if they won the upcoming presidential election. She also asserted that left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon would not only grant Assange citizenship but would also give him the nation's highest honor, the Legion of Honour.

Melenchon has previously said he would back granting Assange and leaker Edward Snowden French citizen citizenship if he were elected. Marine Le Pen shared similar sentiments in a 2016 interview in which she repeated her calls for France to grant Assange asylum.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/pamela-anderson-presses-french-presidential-candidates-on-julian-assange/article/2620794

[HAPPY2BME]

French election relief sends Europe soaring

Euro zone stocks headed for their best day in almost two years and the euro briefly vaulted to five-month peaks on Monday, after the market's favored candidate won the first round of the French election, reducing the risk of another Brexit-like shock.

The victory for pro-EU centrist Emmanuel Macron, who is now expected to beat right-wing rival Marine Le Pen in a deciding vote next month, sent the bluechip euro zone STOXX 50 index .STOXX50E up 3.9 percent, France's CAC40 .FCHI over 4 percent and bank stocks .SX7E up almost 7 percent. [.EU]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets-idUSKBN17P10G?il=0