French Presidential Elections 2007 Watch

domingo, mayo 06, 2007

Before 14:00: very high turnout at French elections: 34,11%. Le Salon Bleu:

A la même heure, ce taux avait été respectivement de 26,2%, de 29,6%, de 28,5% et de 30,2% lors des quatre précédents scrutins présidentiels de 2002, 1995, 1988 et 1981.


Yesterday cars were burned in Paris by ... far-leftists. More about the burned cars here.


Mme. Royal said that if Sarkozy was elected, the streets would be full of violence. Of course she did not say who was going to make the violence. Mr. Sarkozy considers that "this is like saying: Vote for me, and everything would be peaceful or vote for Sarkozy and it would be the war. Mme Royal has insulted all the people who voted for me on the first round". Interview with Sarkozy by Le Parisien.


Alarming news: Maybe John Kerry should have tried this approach. About the violence... ;)


Anyway, riot police has been deployed just in case... Sarkozy wins. And more than 3000 policemen are waiting also ... just in case the same..

Anyone remembers something?? March 2004 Spanish elections perhaps?? "People surrounding Popular Party offices and calling their supporters murderers were exercing their freedom of expression", Zapatero dixit.


Reuters: Sarkozy camp confident as French vote in election.



Now:


ExtremeCentre.org:


Selon des premiers sondages recueillis à la sortie des urnes, Nicolas Sarkozy est donné gagnant (53-55%).Le candidat de l’UMP devance largement la candidate socialiste.
A Paris, le parti socialiste vient de confirmer à l’agence de presse suisse ATS la défaite de Ségolène Royal (46%).


IHT: Sarkozy wins elections in France. 53-47.



His comfortable victory could give Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement party
the momentum to win a majority in Parliament in June, cementing his power to
implement far-reaching reforms in Europe's third-largest economy. He wants the
French to work more and pay lower taxes.


Well, just in case, all the votes have not been considered, so we will have to wait. Although the fact that Royal has recognised in a specch her defeat can be considered as a sign that this result could be the definite.

If Sarko wins, French singer Johny Halliday is going to sing in the victory's celebration.

I love NYT. They are sooooo idiot that I laugh every time I read the news: Forget Who’ll Win in France. Change Is a Loser. Isn't it lovely???



It was the French, after all, who first observed, “the more things change, the more they remain the same.”
“I have the impression that things will move, yes. But will France resemble Britain? No,” said Michel Winock, a French historian, referring obliquely to Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s showdown with British unions and the eventual economic boom her policies helped bring. “We have traditions, attitudes, an attachment to social welfare and, even if change is desirable, we won’t accept change overnight.”


Hmm, yes, well, if they have finally voted Sarkozy that means that even French traditions can change...


In ExtremeCentre.org one commenter writes this annecdote:



A Jérusalem, Julien Dray s’emporte, par Haaretz (Israël, 06/12)“C’était un moment très embarrassant. La scène : un salon de l’hôtel du Roi David à Jérusalem. Les acteurs : le porte-parole de Ségolène Royal Julien Dray et un représentant du CRIF, Conseil représentatif des institutions juives de France.
“Je n’ai rien à vous dire!”, déclare Julien Dray avec véhémence au représentant juif stupéfait. “Vous avez vendu votre âme à l’autre bord ; nous n’avons rien à voir avec vous. Retournez chez votre ami Nicolas Sarkozy, c’est votre propriétaire”.Le représentant CRIF a essayé avec toute sa force de convaincre Dray que son organisation prennait une position absolument objective en ce qui concerne la course à la présidentielle. Mais Dray a persévéré dans ces attaques.
“Vous allez payer chèrement pour votre rassemblement unilatéral”, a-t-il crié en sortant. “Ségolène sera présidente et vous devrez prier pour qu’elle vous reçoive“.”



Haaretz told some months ago about the mistreatment that the Ségo's speaker made to the representant of the Jews in France. When the representant of the Jews Council approached him, Julien Dray shouted at him: "You have sold your soul to the other side; we don't want anything with you. Go back to your friend Sarkozy, that is your owner". When the representant of the Jewish Council tried to reason with him, he went even more mad: "You're going to pay for your unilateral joining. Ségolène is going to be the President and you'will need to pray to be received by her". Nidra Poller mentions the incident here.


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En español:


Barcepundit lo ha tratado aquí.

Y un vídeo de Sarkozy buenísimo que encontré posteado en el blog del blogger inglés Croydonian. Resulta que en el año 93 un pirado que se llamaba a sí mismo Human Bomb secuestró a varios niños de una guardería. Sarkozy era el alcalde de la ciudad en la que ocurrió, Neuilly, y la policía le pidió que fuera el a negociar. Hélo aquí -habría que ver a ZP en la misma situación...-. Por cierto, Human Bomb (iniciales HB, por si no lo habeis notado...) fue abatido a tiros y todos los niños salieron sanos y salvos. El vídeo está en francés pero se entiende perfectamente:





¿Qué? Hay envidia ¿eh? Mira que tener que tener envidia a los gabachos ;))).

También en O Insurgente: su post es buenísimo: se titula "La bella y la bestia":

Com uma participação, à qual não se poderá chamar de “anormalidade democrática“, o monstro parece bem posicionado para ocupar o Eliseu. Será caso para dizer: a beleza não é fundamental.


Con una participación, con la cual no podrá llamarse "anormalidad democrática", la bestia parece bien posicionado para ocupar el Elíseo. La belleza no parece que sea fundamental. Juas, juas...


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