Marine Le Pen loses French presidential election
French right-wing leader Marine Le Pen, who advocated recognition of the Russian status of Crimea, loses the second round of the presidential election. According to preliminary data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, her rival Emmunuel Macron is gaining more than 60% of the votes.
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Le Pen has already said that France is in a state of “split between patriots and globalists.” “A new battle awaits us - parliamentary elections, I will lead this campaign,” she said.
“Experiments with successful victory over populists demonstrate the effectiveness of the tool - “to defeat a populist, you yourself need to become a half-list and intercept his slogans and technologies.” The third successful example recently. Before this, there were presidential elections in Austria and the parliament of the Netherlands,” Russian political scientist Evgeny Minchenko, who observed the campaign, comments on the results of the vote in France.
Marine Le Pen loses the French presidential election.