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I don't think so either, but I've seen surprisingly few polls on that so not quite sure. Legolas Send a noteboard - 26/04/2017 11:22:03 PM

View original postThe Republicans are in a strong enough position that they'll probably control parliament. However, unless Macron moves to rein in the situation with immigration then 5 years from now a desperate country just may finally vote Le Pen into power.

Keep in mind parliamentary elections also have the two round system - and in past elections a lot depended on strategic decisions made by the parties to withdraw their candidates in their second round in favour of someone else (generally that means against the FN), or not.

Still, it would be extraordinary (and not in a good way) for a 'party' like En Marche (note the initials) to take anything like a majority of seats with its hurriedly gathered batch of neophyte candidates.

And it could really take an amazingly long time before we get to the point where she'd win more than 50 percent, honestly. The FN has gained a lot of support already, but in terms of realizing its voter potential it's getting close to its ceiling. I think it's more likely that the next president would be a LR one but with some obvious FN inspiration - Sarkozy seemed poised to play that role and might've successfully done it, if not for his sky-high negative rates.

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I don't think so either, but I've seen surprisingly few polls on that so not quite sure. - 26/04/2017 11:22:03 PM 639 Views
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I know what you mean, and I am not up on all my modem history - 27/04/2017 08:30:11 PM 516 Views
2000, then. - 27/04/2017 09:04:39 PM 669 Views
I'm not gonna argue! - 27/04/2017 11:27:00 PM 755 Views
Re: So it will be Macron vs Le Pen after all - 27/04/2017 09:29:26 AM 505 Views
Yes. Rechecked them just now... - 27/04/2017 06:53:52 PM 661 Views
Good. - 27/04/2017 01:19:26 PM 552 Views

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