Far from the chaos of the American elections of 2020, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen recognized the result of the ballot boxes, but a whole porous front in the theories of the conspiracy ignites for the thesis of a large machination. You still have to be able to support it.
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“Macron stole the election. Dig more depth, French patriotic comrades!” On the night of Sunday, April 24 to Monday, April 25, while most foreign heads of state congratulate Emmanuel Macron for his re -election, the ‘Elected Trumpist of Arizona in the Senate, Wendy Rogers, breaks the atmosphere: window There would have been fraud . A message that does not go unnoticed. While Marine Le Pen announced the day before that she “respects [has]” the fate of the ballot boxes, a whole anti-system, anti-macron and porous front with conspiracy theories, immediately ignites for the thesis of a great manipulation .
You still have to be able to support it. Monday, the video capture of a technical bug on France 2 during the electoral evening spreads like a trail of powder. In reverse of all the results greeted for 20 hours, and in contradiction with the score of 58.5 % for Emmanuel Macron displayed at the same time by the chain, the far -right candidate appears fleetingly in mind in total of the votes cast. The technical error, recognized by the chain to the world, is quickly rectified, but the evil is done.
“At 9:10 pm Le Pen A 13,899,494 votes. At 10:45 p.m. Le Pen A 11,558,051 votes. Where did 2,341,443 votes go?” Asks a certain “Patriot Info”, among many suspicious publications. This is the “proof” that so many activists expected to accuse the macronie of fraud. Already, in the middle of the afternoon, a survey in the conspiracy telegram channel “stay free!” (11,000 subscribers) saw 81 % of the 2,500 participants predict that “the power will defraud to impose a victory of Macron”. Between sarcasm and triumphalism, there have been many, since then, to have convinced themselves to have seen right.
inspiration on the side of the United States
Far from the television sets, the small music of electoral conspiracy had been in gestation for months on social networks, in conspiracy spheres as extreme right. From the beginning of the year, it is a short sentence of Brigitte Macron, seeming to wonder in a context of resumption of COVID-19 “if there would be] elections”, which had fueled the rumor of a flight electoral in the anti -System spheres. This exacerbated vigilance was methodically maintained by certain anti -constant political actors, such as Florian Philippot (Les Patriotes), who in November 2021, already, shouted on Twitter to” fraud and cheating on the march “, or Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (standing France), who condemned in advance an election” fucked from A to Z “, End of March on RTL. “We can see it as a way of preparing the ideological terrain. It is almost their interest in going on this ground, they know that it will not cost them voters,” observed the founder and director of Conspiracy Watch, the conspiracy observatory, Rudy Reichstadt.
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