French Right and Centre Primary Election 1st round

[Duque de Bragança]

Open primary and free for all Languish, unlike the real primary open to all French citizens as long as they are registered as voters who have to pay 2 € to participate. Check your privilege!
Info about the candidates coming later. One should be known by all. One more by those who follow French politics once in a while. The rest? Well...

Only one lady sorry. Unlikely to win.

[Duque de Bragança]

Great, two of them not working, including the favourite. 

Here they are

N°1


N°7

[Liep]

I'll go for the pain au chocolat dude.

[Duque de Bragança]

I'll go for the pain au chocolat dude.

How much for the pain au chocolat? 

[Richard Hakluyt]

#1

He looks tall and is balding, this is the approved look for French presidents.

[Grinning_Colossus]

Voted for #1, who is a being of pure energy and therefore must be more progressive.

[Duque de Bragança]

Languish so far going with the flow

#1 is Alain Juppé, a convict (LOL) nicknamed Ali Juppé by some far-right circles due to a naive remark about the Islamic Brotherhood and his good relations with the imam of Bordeaux (talk about an assignment in infidel land ).

[Richard Hakluyt]

He's a crook too, even better 

[Duque de Bragança]

He's a crook too, even better 

The commonly held view is that he took one for the team i.e Chirac. This has some merit IMO. He is still abrasive (former tax collector chief to boot) and the honey moon would be very brief. Plus he is not scary like Sarko the evil right-winger.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Sarkozy has been outflanking le Pen on the right lately, not a very attractive proposition.

[Duque de Bragança]

Sarkozy talks a lot but outflanking is an exaggeration. For a post-Brexit Britain he's quite tame actually. Thing is, he talks a lot but fails do deliver.
Plus Fillon, #3, former Sarko prime minister, is quite conservative sometimes and somewhat putinist, less than Marine though.
Chillax, for licking Putin's arse Marine is über alles.

Not to mention, Macron, former Rotschild banker, with a Jesuit education, on the PS side, is more of a right-winger. 

[Eddie Teach]

I voted Sark, as I suspect he's the most pro-American, and I'm pretty sure the reasonably attractive woman is a fascist.

[Duque de Bragança]

Well, sorry but Sarko is not the most pro-American, in his current speeches at least. 

As for the reasonably attractive lady, Nathalie_Kosciusko-Morizet, she is certainly the "lefty" of this round. Almost bobo, she lost, but not by much, in her bid as Paris mayor.

[Eddie Teach]

Is Marine LePen out of the running?

[Duque de Bragança]

This is the primary election for the right and centre, not for the far-right. Marine Le Pen does not need one for her candidacy. Unless her father decides to continue the family feud.