france elections

Phew ! I mean he was absolutely the lesser of two evils, but the lesser by a considerable margin. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61209058

And now the fun begins. What Macron has to avoid is becoming panicked, when, as seems inevitable, the left opposition takes to the streets. Trying to cower the government with that tactic goes back to the French Revolution...and worked until Napoleon's "Whiff of Grapeshot",

There's not much about this in mainstream media yet, so I post one of the few English articles I found on that. There are warnings not to disseminate the leaked data (which came out midnight in the night from Friday to Saturday, just as the French news blackout regarding the election came into...

Five weeks before the first round, this year's French presidential election promises to be like none before it. For the first time in the history of the 5th republic, it may well be that the two main political blocks will both be thrown out during the first round. Current polling indeed has far...

Some joker in France have put 500 posters to ask Obama as president of France. http://us.cnn.com/2017/02/24/europe/france-obama-17-president-trnd/index.html Normally I would laugh, but seeing the grim list of candidate we'll have... I can't help to think he would be IMO the best of the crop.

This points to, I think, a good thing about the French electoral process: it's a two-round system. Last week, these were the headlines: Le Pen Scores Historic Victory in France's Regional Elections Is France going fascist? Extreme-right National Front is now the most popular party As you can...

"Both men lit their first Gauloises at 12pm yesterday and will spend 48 hours chain-smoking under lampposts while wearing hats and trenchcoats." It's true. Source

So, who will win? Who should win? Will it make any difference? I tend to think that Hollande has better ideas for solving the euro zone debt crisis. But it may not matter because Merkel and Draghi are opposed to these ideas.