Jumblat Raises Concerns of Le Pen's Win in French Elections

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Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat touched on the presidential elections in France and cautioned against far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen's win in the second round of the elections.

“Be careful of Le Pen she has not been defeated yet. (Far-left firebrand Jean-Luc) Melenchon and the so-called far-left are dangerous, opportunists and have no principles,” said Jumblat in a tweet.

On Sunday, Macron topped the first round of voting for president, winning 23.75 percent of the vote to Le Pen's 21.53 percent. Nine other candidates were eliminated.

Macron and Le Pen will face off in a second round of voting on May 7.

Macron is campaigning on a centrist platform that favors business, the European Union and maintaining France's welfare safety net.

Le Pen is campaigning on a nationalist platform that would curb immigration and weaken ties with the European Union.

Le Pen's goal isn't simply to swing as many, now eliminated, Francois Fillon and Melenchon, voters as possible to her side but to persuade enough of them not to vote at all on May 7, in hopes that her reservoir of committed voters will outnumber those who'll back Macron, many reluctantly, simply to keep her extremism from reaching the Elysee Palace.

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Missing un520 28 April 2017, 15:35

“Be careful of Le Pen she has not been defeated yet. (Far-left firebrand Jean-Luc) Melenchon and the so-called far-left are dangerous, opportunists and have no principles,” said Jumblat in a tweet.
Whereas Jumblatt has principles...?

Thumb ex-fpm 28 April 2017, 16:58

lol

Thumb liberty 29 April 2017, 06:57

the thug flamethrower/the_roar voted you down because he now thinks that junblatt has principles.