[Newsbot]

Title: Penelope-Gate: New revelations claim Fran�ois Fillon got his wife and kids jobs that paid �1 million
Category: World
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2017-02-03 00:25:30

[N_Fiddledog]

The reason this is interesting is it makes you want to ask will it affect the French presidential race.

Best guess appears to be yes. Fillon is Marine Le Pen's chief competition.

Apparently the story is all over the French media.

[martin14]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

The reason this is interesting is it makes you want to ask will it affect the French presidential race.

Best guess appears to be yes. Fillon is Marine Le Pen's chief competition.

Apparently the story is all over the French media.

And it will be when the 1st round of the election arrives.

Le Pen is probably not going to have a better chance than this year.


Right wing candidate is toast from scandal.
Socialists elect a really hard left crazy.

That leaves Macron, a relative nobody,trying to run down the centre,
except for being very pro EU and completely open borders on immigration.

and Brexit
and Trump

We'll see, my guess is either Le Pen wins the first round as Fillon collapses,
if it goes to second round with Le Pen and Macron, we know what will happen.
Both left and right will collaborate in a shameless lust for Power to defeat Le Pen.

[Sunnyways]

Le Pen has an agenda of massive change, leaving the eurozone and the EU among many other things. I suspect it will be seen as too risky by most French voters.