The French political system is for me very different.  I obviously understand the US system and, also, the British style parliamentary system.  But the French system is different for me, and therefore interesting and exciting.  This runoff feature has a lot of implications that I perhaps understand to some extent, but don't at all understand the nuances.  and that is just one aspect that makes this election so interesting.  another is that it would seem to be key to France, and very important to Europe.  so I would like more.

Unfortunately my French is not good enough to follow this in the French papers, though I do read some of it.  That I know is where I can fill this void, but it doesn't work well for me.

so you are right I have an agenda with these two diaries, though not the rubbing in idea.  I had planned on doing something on the economics, but Jerome seemed to start that with his recent front pager on the Economist.

So yes!!  More diaries and more discussion, please!!