Marine Le Pen

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Ukraine War, April 10, 2022 (II): In France, Macron wins with 27.60% of vote v. 23.41% for Marine Le Pen in first round presidential election (official results with 97% of vote counted); both head for second-round run-off on April 24

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Le Pen peut gagner! — Le chagrin et la pitié: La France en 2017 et ses élections présidentielles

Comme ont revelé les elections du Brexit et du Donald Trump, les sondages d’opinion sont peu confiable. Ça c’est particulièrement vrai dans le cas du deuxième tour français, òu les intentions de vote des neuf sur 11 candidats dans le premier tour sont statistiquement très difficukes de modéler.

En somme, Marine Le Pen pourrait bien gagner.

C’est un cas d’éxtreme urgence dans lequel l’Union Europeene, NATO, et la défense contre les aggressions de la Russie sont en jeu.

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Putin threatens life of leading opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, then arrrests him and others at demonstrations in Russia — Meanwhile, Tillerson is racing to Moscow

When the life of the leading opposition figure in Russia is directly threatened, we may safely assume that the action did not occur without the knowledge and direction of Russia’s all-powerful dictator, Vladimir Putin.

On March 19, 2017, Alexsei Navalny, that opposition leader, was attacked with a green chemical that turned ut to be benign. Following the recent assassination in Malaysia of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, by having a deadly chemical smeared on him, the threat and the lesson for Navalny could not have been clearer: Next time it could be a deadly chemical. Putin in the past has demonstrated that Russia has great mastery and experience in this area.