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Conservative notes

29 April 2017

9:00 AM

29 April 2017

9:00 AM

Ultimately, it doesn’t matter whether Marine Le Pen or Emmanuel Macron is elected President of France on May 7. As with Geert Wilders back in March, Le Pen’s poised to win the war even if she loses the battle. François Fillon, the ultra-Catholic free-marketeer, would’ve walked away with this race had he not been caught up in a nepotism scandal (‘Penelopegate’).

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