Sunday Open Thread | 171 comments (171 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Al Jazeera has alreadytranslated it.

by Katrin on Sun Feb 5th, 2012 at 03:01:35 PM EST
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I think we'll be hearing more of this type of fascist rhetoric from Sarkozy's team leading to the election, as they try to woo away LePen's voters.

It seems like Marine LePen is having trouble gathering the 500 signatures of mayors in order to be able to run as a presidential candidate as she was requesting that they be able to remain anonymous.

In the Le Monde article on this topic, Guéant also broaches this subject and doesn't seem very sympathetic to her cause.

With LePen's 20% of the vote, Sarkozy could upset the Socialists and win the election.

by stevesim on Sun Feb 5th, 2012 at 03:09:13 PM EST
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Re: Sunday Open Thread (none / 0)

in fact, they just put up a big article or two up on Le Monde just now about this topic

by stevesim on Sun Feb 5th, 2012 at 03:36:24 PM EST
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Nah (none / 0)

Without Le Pen, Sarko gets a first-round boost, but her hard-core supporters stay home in the second round, accentuating his defeat.

The real victim if Le Pen drops out is Bayrou, who becomes irrelevant.

The attempted lockdown of right-wing mayors by the UMP is exceedingly undemocratic. Most village-level mayors are conservative but not aligned with a political party, so the only way to discipline them is to threaten the commune's funding.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Mon Feb 6th, 2012 at 04:44:31 AM EST
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