Unfortunately, "elsewhere" would probably include Le Pen along with the centre-right and the left...
But the relationship is so noxious that the longer it goes, the likelier they are to both be damaged goods.
Or Villepin is utterly destroyed, Sarkozy is called as PM, and Chirac (plus the job) destroys him there. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
