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Poll closed Question: Who will be the next French president?
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S. Royal    
  3 (42.9%)
N. Sarkozy    
  3 (42.9%)
It does not matter    
  1 (14.3%)




Total votes: 7
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Re: Next French president
Reply #6 - 05/05/07 at 21:29:07
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Well, Nicolas Sarkozy, our probable next president, is an ambitious guy with strong (right-winged) convictions and energy. To put it mildly, he is rather in the "doing" than in the "being", and so things are going to change, for better or worse (think Margaret Thatcher). He reminds me of the epitaph for Cardinal de Richelieu, an ancient French statesman (sorry for the awful rendition in english) :
" Here lies a famous Cardinal
  Who did the Good and did the Bad.
  The Good he did, he did it bad,
  The Bad he did, he did it good."
  
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Re: Next French president
Reply #5 - 05/05/07 at 20:24:30
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Willempie wrote on 05/05/07 at 11:23:24:
Ah the cute incompetent vs the guy with some weird ideas Grin
Pity Bayrou didnt make it Undecided

The weird ideas will prevail. We should be happy with it, as incompetence usually is even more harmful, as Bush has proved once again last few years.
  

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Reply #4 - 05/05/07 at 16:18:04
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I think Sarkozy is the obvious and sensible choice.  I hope he wins.
  

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Re: Next French president
Reply #3 - 05/05/07 at 15:59:48
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Sarkozy has assured himself of victory with his [i]trafic d'influences[/i] in the media and political worlds. And the socialist party decided in the preliminaries not to put forth a credible candidate (Strauss-Kahn) on the basis of volatile popularity polls. A great pity that Bayrou did not make it. Not that I would have expected the "great changes" that he promised, but it would have avoided the Berlusconi-Guiliani style police state that we are about to witness...
  
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Re: Next French president
Reply #2 - 05/05/07 at 12:14:11
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N.Sarkozy is a heavy favourite, according to all sources, including English bookmakers...

We can expect some good things and some less good things in the coming years in France...

Pity Bayrou didn't make it...
  

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Re: Next French president
Reply #1 - 05/05/07 at 11:23:24
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Ah the cute incompetent vs the guy with some weird ideas Grin
Pity Bayrou didnt make it Undecided
  

If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through.
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05/05/07 at 07:18:51
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Tomorrow is the decisive day. Which result are you expecting?
  

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