Uchronie is a fashionable genre. And if Napoleon had won at Waterloo, and if Kennedy had not been assassinated ... Literature is rich in works where, starting from a real fact, history continues otherwise. But politics is not a fiction.
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The 2017 presidential election was held. François Fillon was eliminated in the first round, Emmanuel Macron elected in the second and the former prime minister left political life. We will not rewrite history. Nevertheless, no one can deny that the outcome of the campaign could have been different without the irruption of this case which brought the candidate of the right to justice. At the end of January 2017, the polls certainly dropped for Fillon, but Bayrou is still considering a first-round candidacy and is discussing with LR a future legislative agreement. It was also this affair that detached him from the right and led to support Macron a month later. And it was this non-candidacy of Bayrou that had mechanically raised the future elected in the
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