Does anyone want to speculate a little on how the Royal-Sarko "battle royale" is likely to play out?
Is there truth to the rumor that the Chirac gang would rather lose to SR than having to put up with Sarko at the Elysee Palace and therefore will act accordingly in the months ahead? And if so, what can they actually do? (Volunteer Sarko for the next space shuttle launch?)
According to the Nouvel Observateur, Chirac could still possibly run for president:
A l'idée que Jacques Chirac pourrait siéger au Conseil constitutionnel - avec Giscard! - la voilà remontée à nouveau. "Oui, il ira. Dans cinq ans !" Et elle répète: "Vous m'entendez. Dans cinq ans"... On ne saurait être plus clair. At the idea that Jacques Chirac could take his place at the Constitutional Council [as a former president] -- with Giscard [d'Estaing]! -- [his wife, Bernadette] braces up again. "Sure he will. In five years!" And she repeats: "You hear me? In five years."... One couldn't be more clear.
Seriously? Does septuagenarian Chirac despise Sarkozy so much that he would go through the trouble of running for president (with no chances of winning, I gather) just to sabotage Sarkozy's chances? Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
But as Blair is demonstrating every day, saying good-bye seems difficult for these people.
There's a lot of kite-flying around Alliot-Marie and Villepin etc. Sarkozy has more enemies on his own side than Royal on hers.
As I suggested in the first primary thread, Sarkozy was hoping the PS process would drag on and become embittered, weakening Royal in public opinion.
He now has a reply from Socialist party members.
Sego will be crush in each debate With Sarko and there are not enough lazy public servants to give her the crown.
nothing to do with her sex, Sarko is dam good at debating and has ideas.
"* public servants are lazy;"
pretty much a fact : those who wanted to become public servant before 1980 (low unemployment, low level of qualification needed) were the lazy and under-performing ones.the socialist pary is mainly a teachers' organization and they are quite happy to let 400,000 youth leaving without qualification/education as long as noone touch their five months of holidays (and their children climb the social ladder)
"* that Royal would be exclusively backed by aforesaid public servants. " if the election follows the previous one, 95% of them and their family will vote for her, public servants support is a bit more than essential.
