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If you could vote in the French Presidential Elections of 2022 - where would your vote go to?

My vote might go to ......

  • Nathalie Arthaud - Lutte Ouvrière

    Votes: 1 3.1%

  • Marine Le Pen - Rassemblement national

    Votes: 8 25.0%

  • Anne Hidalgo - Parti Socialiste

    Votes: 4 12.5%

  • François Asselineau - Union populaire républicaine

    Votes: 1 3.1%

  • Fabien Roussel Parti - communiste français

    Votes: 2 6.3%

  • Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron - En Marche

    Votes: 15 46.9%

  • others

    Votes: 5 15.6%
  • Total voters
    32
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If you could vote in the French Presidential Elections of 2022 - where would your vote go to?

The list of the candidates is still open. So this is just a provisional first poll in that matter.
I have chosen 6 candidates - 3 ladies and 3 gentlemen.
 
Other, because I'd probably vote Melenchon in the first round if I was French. Probably.
 
I voted for Marine Le Pen because it's the coolest sounding name on the list.
 
In alphabetical order:

Nathalie Arthaud - Lutte Ouvrière
François Asselineau - Union populaire républicaine
Xavier Bertrand - Divers
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan - Debout la France
Jean Lassalle - Résistons
Marine Le Pen - Rassemblement national
Jean-Luc Mélenchon - La France insoumise
Jean-Frédéric Poisson - VIA, la voie du peuple
Philippe Poutou - Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste
Fabien Roussel - Parti communiste français
Arnaud Montebourg - L'Engagement
Anne Hidalgo - Parti Socialiste


They all have declared their candidacy.
 
Where would it go? Provence, right at the coast.
 
@ cool sounding names

Whatever his polititcs might be, I find this name also cool sounding:

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron​

 
Rumpel said:
The name may be very cool sounding.
What about the person?
Do you know her?
Do you find her "cool" personally as well?
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I have no idea what the person is like and haven’t met or worked with her. Lately I am trying to cut down on carbs, wine and face-to-face interactions with French politicians.
 
Rumpel said:
If you could vote in the French Presidential Elections of 2022 - where would your vote go to?

The list of the candidates is still open. So this is just a provisional first poll in that matter.
I have chosen 6 candidates - 3 ladies and 3 gentlemen.
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French political parties appear to rise, dissolve, morph with dizzying rapidity. Even when they don't morph they change names.

Hands down I liked Nikolas Sarkozy and his Les Republicains. I am not sure which party is the closest successor to the Les Republicains.

I voted François Asselineau as a quick google appears to suggest to me as ideologically close to Sarkozy. Problem is he appears to lack the good looks, elegance and swagger of Sarkozy.
 
Rumpel said:
Now: 2 out of 5 say:

Marine Le Pen - Rassemblement national​

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I would vote for Marine le Pen if she can overcome the second round obstacle of anybody but a le Pen. In that sense le Pen's situation is not unlike that of Trump in the US, they are fantastic at whipping up and coalescing the opposition against them. And I say that as a Trumpista. In the end there is no substitute for victory. It is a winner take all system. No consolation prizes for second place.
 
Juin said:
French political parties appear to rise, dissolve, morph with dizzying rapidity. Even when they don't morph they change names.
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So it is.
And in order to become President of France, Monsieur Macron just founded a party of his own - from scratch.
And he succeeded.

I wonder if such a thing could happen in the US?
 
Rumpel said:
So it is.
And in order to become President of France, Monsieur Macron just founded a party of his own - from scratch.
And he succeeded.

I wonder if such a thing could happen in the US?
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I seriously doubt that. Ross Perot, before his Mad Hatter side took over and crashed him, was gonna do a serious solo run for the White House. But even then he didn't start from scratch. Independents in the US still ride the coattails of the major political parties.
 
Rumpel said:
Yes!
Even though he has not yet declared that he would be a candidate.
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Don't know why he wouldn't, to my knowledge En Marche does not have an heir apparent to run instead.
 
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