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20H30. Nicolas Sarkozy : "Je souhaite que ce débat du second tour soit un débat d'idées. Les Français l'attendent depuis trop longtemps", assure le candidat de l'UMP. "Je ne souhaite qu'une chose rassembler : le peuple français autour d'un nouveau rêve français, celui d'une république fraternelle".

Sarko sez: "I wish that the debate of the second round will be a debate of ideas. [Hypocrite] The French have waited for too long [not for you] I don't want one thing to be forgotten: the French people want a new French dream, that of a fraternal republic [bnut not with the cités I guess]"

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 02:46:59 PM EST
DSK (Socialist elephant from the soc-dem, within that party right of center, platform) delcared that victory is still possible if their candidate focuses on "renewal".

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 02:52:02 PM EST
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Good to see he plans to be a uniter and not a divider.

</le snark>

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 02:52:04 PM EST
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Green candidate Voynet already called on Green voters to support Ségo in the second round, what's more, she also called for a Sixth Republic, an idea espoused by Royal.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 02:53:41 PM EST
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I'm having trouble with my stream but I thought I heard LAguillier also call for a vote against Sarkozy; not that it will influence many people but it might indicate a real determination to rally against him rather than just express discontent with the PS.
by desmoulins (gsb6@lycos.com) on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 02:55:20 PM EST
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Libé just wrote the same. I can't remember, which Trots were generally against and which were for a vote for the PS candidate in the second round? I seem to remember just Laguiller's bunch was against.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 03:03:12 PM EST
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has indeed always been the hardcore 'let things get worse so that revolution comes faster" kind. It's pretty unexpected to see her call so explicitly for Royal. Interesting.

Note that de Villiers has already stated that he did NOT call his voters to go for Sarkozy.

Le Pen of course, has stated that his voters are "not for sale" and will not call for anyone.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 03:14:05 PM EST
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Voynet, Buffer (communists) and Laguiller have called for Royal. In the case of Laguiller, it's the first time ever she does that. In 2002, she did not even call for a vote in the second round.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 03:11:33 PM EST
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Well, "Phoenix" mentioned that in his speech this evening  he spent some time talking about "French identity"? And speculating that he wants to secure the Le Pen vote first? Before going for the center?
by Detlef (Detlef1961_at_yahoo_dot_de) on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 02:53:52 PM EST
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All the pundits have noted that "the (2nd round) election will play out in the center".

Sarkozy did too, apparently...

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 02:56:47 PM EST
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For the communists (whose candidate is projected to get only 2%), writer Shariyari Kazem said that this is a catastrophe, that the men are okay with Sarko. At the campaign center, the chant was: "Sarko, fascists, the people will get your skin"

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 03:01:16 PM EST
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Royal praised the high participation. "You gave me a big responsibility, to carry on the fight for change", spoke about "the France of respect" [the non-Sarko France], and called for "ending a system that doesn't work". What does the latter mean?

Bayrou used some empty phrases, didn't call for the support of either advancing candidate, and also spoke about change.

All candidates are speaking about change.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 04:17:34 PM EST
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Royal ... called for "ending a system that doesn't work". What does the latter mean?

Either a change in the electoral system or "the Sixth Republic", I guess.

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 04:25:22 PM EST
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