{"id":71664,"date":"2017-04-24T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71664"},"modified":"2017-04-24T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T14:57:00","slug":"french-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71664","title":{"rendered":"French elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Anti-facist” demonstrators in Paris threw bottles, set off firecrackers and burned cars as they discovered that centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen seem to be the two contenders in the May 7th presidential election, according to Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“We have come here to protest against the pantomime of this election,” a protester told AFP.<\/p>\n

After the results came in, protesters who gathered at the square waved red flags and sang \u201cNo Marine and No Macron!\u201d among other chants, The Telegraph reported. Nearby, about 300 peaceful demonstrators gathered at Place de la Republique to condemn the election results. Several danced around bonfires.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The current French President socialist Francois Hollande has urged his constituents to vote for Macron, so has a senior French Muslim leader.<\/p>\n

Le Pen has taken advantage of recent terrorist attacks in France to build her following. <\/p>\n

The media seems to like Macron, though. Even though his personal life is a bit odd, according to Yahoo News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

His wife, Brigitte Trogneux, is a stylish woman, with blond hair and a warm smile. She also happens to be 24 years Macron\u2019s senior. They met when he was a high school student and she was his teacher.<\/p>\n

Then known as Brigitte Auziere, she was married with three children and teaching French literature and drama when she encountered Macron, then just 15 years old. They bonded writing a play together, but when Macron told his parents of his interest, they sent him away to school in Paris. The two kept up a correspondence, and by the time Macron was 18, Trogneux had divorced her husband and moved to Paris to be with him. They were married in 2007.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody will ever know at what moment our story became a love story. That belongs to us. That is our secret,\u201d Trogneux said of the origin of their relationship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, they boinked while he was underage.<\/p>\n

Other than using a cheeky nickname for Macron, \u201cchouchou,\u201d or teacher\u2019s pet, the French press seems to treat Macron and Trogneux as a couple more closely resembling John and Jacqueline Kennedy in Camelot than Vili Fualaau and Mary Kay Letourneau.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Imagine that – the media looking the other way for a liberal (small “l”) candidate.<\/p>\n

Yeah, if the roles were reversed, the male would be a giant perv – you know like the guy who kidnapped Elizabeth Thomas<\/a>, recently. But, see the French are more sophisticated than us colonials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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