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Meet the French MEPs who shape the presidential raceEvery contender for the Elys茅e has gone to the European Parliament for help.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInPOLITICO photo illustration/Source images by Getty and EPAFebruary 8, 20224:44 am CETBy Ma茂a de La BaumeWant to get a handle stanley cup becher on the French presidential election Then get yourself down to the European Parliament.The EU Parliament is no longer a retirement home for fading/disgraced French politicians, it become a breeding ground for senior advisers to the candidates in April national election. This isn ;t new, of course, as presidential candidates have come from the ranks of MEPs in past elections including far-right leader Marine Le Pen and her far-left rival, Jean-Luc M茅lenchon 鈥?both are still candidates if no longer MEPs . AdvertisementAdvertisementThis time there one presidentia tappo stanley l candidate who is an MEP 鈥?the Greens ; Yannick Jadot 鈥攁nd almost every other contender in the first round of the election on April 10 has picked a campaign director and/or senior adviser from the Parliament. That includes President Emmanuel Macron, who hasn ;t ye stanley cups t officially announced his candidacy; Val茅rie P茅cresse, the head of the Paris region and candidate of the center-right Les R茅publicains; right-wing firebrand Eric Zemmour; Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris and the Socialist Partys candidate; as well as Jadot, Le Pen and M茅lenchon.Here a look at Dule Connor Allen
Angela Merkel to run for fourth term: senior MPShe will run and act as a responsible leader, ; German MP says.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel | mmanuele Contini/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesNovember 15, 20168:24 pm CETBy Cynthia KroetGermanys Angela Merkel will seek a fourth term as chancellor in the parliamentary elections late next year, Norbert R枚ttgen, a senior politician in her Christian Democratic Union CDU , told CNN Tuesday. She is determined, willing and ready to contribute to strengthen the international liberal order, R枚ttgen said in an interview. She will run stanley tumblers and act as a responsible leader.He added聽that although Merkel was a cornerstone of integration and international cooperation, neither the chancellor nor Germany should be the last man standing, and that Europe needed the support of the transatlantic alliance.AdvertisementAdvertisementMerkel took office in 2005 and an opinion poll published聽earlier this month suggested that 59 percent of Germans would stanley thermos support her candidacy for another聽term.Her spokesperson sent out a tweet saying that she will make an announcement at a later moment.Es bleibt dabei. Zur Frage, ob sie noch einmal kandidiert, wird sich die Bundeskanzlerin zum geeigneten Zeitpunkt 盲u脽ern.mdash; Steffen Seibert @RegSprecher stanley cup November 15, 2016AdvertisementAdvertisementRelated TagsElectionsGerman election 2017German politicsNatio |
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