Oh...and congrats... even though Russia also tried to influence your recent election, your fascist candidate lost. I'm jealous.
I cannot express how relieved I am. Marine le Pen would have been a total and utter disaster on every level. Macron is a good guy. I hope he manages to get the support he needs in the Assemblée Nationale to get the reforms France needs done.
As it happens, the En Marche candidate for the constituency where we are has been a customer of my pub for 20 years, and is an excellent individual. For her whole career she has been working in the aeronautics industry. (I gather it is not untypical that en marche candidates have no previous political career).
The incumbent (a french conservative) who has been the MP for the last 20 years has never really had to make an effort, and as a result seems lazy and complacent.
A bonfire of the political hacks and a fresh intake of people who've had jobs jobs in the real world would seem to be a good thing.
