🇵🇸 from the Frederick to the Enchilada 🇵🇸: How so?

JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

The 2nd leading pollster projects a similar result—if anything a higher range for the Left coalition. This wld be a much stronger result than expected for the Macron bloc. If confirmed, key takeaway: Left & Macronist voters transferred onto each other much more than expected. Clear anti-RN front.

I sincerely hope that Putin is currently comparing how much money he pushed into the right wing vs. what he got for his money.

what if we didn’t make every political discussion everywhere about Putin, since most of them aren’t about Russia at all

Far right in France is very much related to Putin sadly

How so?

After the defeat in 2017, they received a huge loan from a russian bank to help them recover. At the time Le Pen spent a lot of time on Russian TV, etc.. theconversation.com/marine-le-pe...

Marine Le Pen, the Rassemblement National and Russia: history of a strategic alliancetheconversation.com A victory of the far-right presidential candidate would be good news for Moscow, which has a long-standing history with Le Pen and her party.

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