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| French elections: Le Pen tells supporters to stay home |
| 2007-05-02 |
| French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen called on his supporters Tuesday to abstain en masse from voting in Sunday's presidential election. Le Pen said neither socialist candidate Segolene Royal nor rightwinger Nicolas Sarkozy deserved the support of the 10.44 percent of voters who backed him in the first round of voting. "I call on voters who have shown their confidence in me to cast their vote neither for Madame Royal nor for Mr Sarkozy and to abstain en masse," said Le Pen, who came fourth in round one. |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #6 A5089, as the rule of the Vth is that each successive president is worse than his predecessor. Carter and Clinton are available if needed. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-05-02 14:30 |
| #5 Thank you for the analysis, a5089 deaer. May this election break that rule. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-05-02 13:09 |
| #4 From what I read on various blogs or websites from the national right, a large part of the "fachos" (rightwing nuts) if going to stay home, while some are going to vote ségogole, the nationalist leftists like the nationaux-bolsheviques. Only a small part (20-30%?) is going to actually vote sarko, out of pragmatism and of the lesser evil principle. Motivations for this lack of support range classically from his (supposed, though he certainly put this under scrutiny when he has a jewish adviser sez that "sarko is the natural candidate of the jews") jooooo-ishness, to his foreign policy (not "firm" enough, regarding you-know-who, those two countries that bully the world, France firstly), with some more interesting notions being floated, like his wish to remodel french society into a communautaristic model, his desire of re-imposing the EU "constitution" over the will of the people, his propping up of islam (though him having gotten only 1% of the muslim vote should help clear his mind about who are his supporters)... That said, the "fachos" who make up the french nationalist internet are only a part of pépé Le Pen's electorate, most of it is actually "fachés" (disgruntled people), who will certainly vote for sarko in greater proportion than True Believers. Still, ségogole being elected wouldn't surprize me a bit, as the rule of the Vth is that each successive president is worse than his predecessor. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-05-02 12:53 |
| #3 Stupid, but a lot of our voters gave control of Congress to the Dumbocrats last year by pretty much the same kind of thinking. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-05-02 12:40 |
| #2 What, all 10 of 'em?... |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-05-02 10:22 |
| #1 AHRAM.org [Egypt]/BIGNEWS NETWORK > FRANCE WANTS SARKOZY. All things equal, and unless Sarkozy does something truly asinine/stupid agz his own interests-campaign, French voters will go for Sarkozy, NOT Segolene. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-05-02 01:46 |