You political junkies know how important this was. The future of Ukraine, the future of NATO, and maybe even the future of the European Union hung in the balance. Macron’s opponent is a pro-Putin right-winger.

He did win by a comfortable 16-17 points or so, but consider this: (1) he defeated the same woman by 32 points the last time they faced off; (2) 41% of the French people voted for a pro-Putin candidate during a Putin-ordered war. We live in troubled times.

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    1. Media comments like that are the sort of sensationalistic twisting of facts that I find very annoying. While technically it is true, this is also because Jacques Chiraq, who was reelected in 2002, could not run for a third term in 2007. Following that was another one term President elected in 2012, and then Macron first elected in 2017.

      So, rather than saying ‘Macron is the first President of France who was reelected in 20 years, it could also have been said that “Macron is the first person to be reelected after 2 single term Presidents” (for 10 years), but that doesn’t sound as sensationalist.

      1. Thanks, Adam. All of that was things I did not know and was interested to learn. You are right, but I guess the news people don’t want to take the time to explain it.

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