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“A leader is a dealer in hope,” Napoleon Bonaparte once said. And France’s current leader, President Emmanuel Macron, is struggling to give his people any hope at the moment.
French pollsters are so bored they literally tested Napoleon (yes that one).
He’d beat Macron 62-38. pic.twitter.com/MOC9fc32Us
— François Valentin (@Valen10Francois) July 17, 2024
The recent snap elections saw embarrassing rejections of Macron’s centrist platform in favour of both Right-wing and Left-wing parties, and the French are starting to wonder if he lives up to his historical predecessors. A new poll shows Bonaparte beating Macron 62-38 in a one-on-one electoral bout, and that if Napoleon were to come back to life today 47% would be ready to vote for him. Apparently St. Helena is nice this time of year, Emmanuel…
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