Wednesday, April 26, 2006
The Beauty of the French Left
The possible candidates for the French Presidential elections in 2007 have been unofficially announced.
We all knew about Nicholas Sarkozy from the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire would stand. But there is a suprise candidate, Segolene Royal, the wife of the leader of the Parti Socialiste, Francois Hollande.
Apparently she is able to win support from both sides of the political spectrum. However, it seems that there will be many bedtime conversations between the two before the official declaration of the candidates in April next year.
M. Hollande lost out in the last Presidential elections where the Front National managed to gain enough votes to make the second ballot a Right vs Right contest. I would like to make the prediction now that Francois has my backing for the candidacy.
A word of warning, there will be another fight by the Front National due to the pathetic handling of the "easy-hire, easy-fire" legislation and the failure to recognise the social-economic problems in the Banilieues, the suburbs of Paris and other major French towns.
Lets hope the beauty of the French Left wins, whoever their candidate may be.
We all knew about Nicholas Sarkozy from the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire would stand. But there is a suprise candidate, Segolene Royal, the wife of the leader of the Parti Socialiste, Francois Hollande.
Apparently she is able to win support from both sides of the political spectrum. However, it seems that there will be many bedtime conversations between the two before the official declaration of the candidates in April next year.
M. Hollande lost out in the last Presidential elections where the Front National managed to gain enough votes to make the second ballot a Right vs Right contest. I would like to make the prediction now that Francois has my backing for the candidacy.
A word of warning, there will be another fight by the Front National due to the pathetic handling of the "easy-hire, easy-fire" legislation and the failure to recognise the social-economic problems in the Banilieues, the suburbs of Paris and other major French towns.
Lets hope the beauty of the French Left wins, whoever their candidate may be.
# posted by Daniel Snowdon @ 12:47 pm 
