Fillon, a pro-Putinist aiming to take over France, has
won the primaries over a pro-European candidate Juppe, with a massive advantage of 66.5% to Juppe's 33.5 percent of the vote. There doesn't appear to be anyone on the French political scene able to pose a threat to him now, since the only other candidates at the moment are Le Pen (who's even more of a pro-Putinist than Fillon), Hollande, who has popularity rating of
4%, and a bunch of other left-leaning politicians who apparently are going to run separately, thus splitting the left vote.
Close aides of Hollande have said he will run despite his deep unpopularity. Fillon lacks the broad appeal of the more centrist Juppe and his more radical economic reform plans could give Hollande a peg on which to base his candidacy.
But on Sunday, Hollande's prime minister Manuel Valls for the first time raised the prospect he could challenge Hollande as the Socialists' candidate in the 2017 presidential election, in a further sign of the left's divisions.
Neither of them would get more than 9 percent of the votes in the first round of the presidential election and neither would qualify for the run-off, the Harris Interactive flash poll on Sunday showed.
Both Hollande's former economy minister Emmanuel Macron and leftist firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon, would do much better, the poll showed. Both on Sunday reaffirmed that they would run in the presidentials and bypass the Socialist party's primaries - guaranteeing a split vote on the left.
Seems like France is about to betray Europe once again.
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