The French Conservative party’s primary election was won by outsider Francois Fillon beating the establishment candidates Sakovzy and Alan Jupe.
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Fillon runs a conservative platform stressing three main points:
economic deregulation, expansion of 35 hours work week to 39 hours, public sector job cuts, less government debt.
increase in security and police, increased control with immigration
socially conservative policies curning LGBT marriage, and restrictions on abortions.
Fillon is expected to run against Marine Le Pen due to the fact that the socialists under Hollande have become extremely unpopular. But if 2016 has shown anything it is that pre-dictions tend to be imprecise. So the only thing to do is to wait until matters will unravel during May of 2017. Then we will see what happens.
