French and European Elections

Marv

Yes congratulations to President Macron. May he do well.

domtheone

Business as usual tomorrow then.

Cliff

Yes, the world will turn as usual. Europe is safe, Merkel is smiling, the financial markets are breathing easy and sanity has prevailed.

Wahreo

Democracy won.

France gets on with it and accepts the decision.

As you were, Remoaners.

thegeby

La Marseillaise?  Shouldn't that be Marechal, Nous voila!

hdsport

  That may have been next on the playlist!

pandemic

The breakdown of the French election was somewhat interesting; almost half the young French population voted for Le Pen and under 20% of over 65s voted for her. That's has got to be seen bad news for the future of the EU, because I just cannot see Macron turning that around in the next 5 years. If the European far-right (far-left too, in places like Spain/Italy) are playing the long game, at the moment I would speculate that they are 'scarily' on track to being a force through out Europe.

Other news, did anyone else notice that Macron came out to 'Ode to Joy' (EU anthem) instead of La Marseillaise to deliver his victory speech? That's one way of p***ing off Le Pen voters, but a bit risky?

Surebrec

it probably is and likely will, but to those people, I'd like to quote a phrase that has become rather popular over the last 6 months:

krish

^^^ I noticed Farage received that response to his less than enthusiastic tweet about Macron's win

Cliff

Yes, interesting.
I have read this before and whereas the oldies in the UK are supposed to vote UKIP and Brexit etc, it is the reverse in France. The young have been supporting Le Pen and and very Eurosceptic.