Why is that old crust still around? Is every french politician a Long Runner? If I open Giscard's tomb, will he be run—WAIT HE'S STILL ALIVE?!
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Not right now. The most prominent opposing syndicate is the CGT, which has always had extremely strong ties with the Communist Party, when it wasn't directly one of its branches, and their leader is absolutely everywhere these days.
Far-left suffers from the inability of its members to agree with a leader whose ideas slightly differ of your own even though this disagreement kills both of your chances to do anything. Hence the four, five or six different parties with ideas that are largely overlapping. I am pretty sure that there are as many differences between Jean-Luc Mélenchon ("right-wing of the far-left") and Nathalie Arthaud ("far-left of the far-left") than there are between Alain Juppé and Christian Estrosi, who both are members of Les Républicains, or between Manuel Valls and Benoît Hamon who both belong to the PS.
In the first round, Juppé is at 35%, while Sarkozy is at 21%, against the same opponents. Mostly because Juppé can siphon out some left-wing voters who are just that tired of Hollande, but the same people would never in hell vote for Sarkozy (talking from personal experience here).
Well, on this picture
◊ you can see the signature of the Accords de Grenelle in May 1968. It includes two future Presidents of France, one from 1969 to 1974, the other from 1995 to 2007.
Just to give you an idea.
edited 1st Jun '16 5:23:05 AM by Julep
Juppé is far, far less likely to lose to Le Pen than Sarkozy is, so yes, it is a factor, but I can't say if it is THE factor. Le Pen might win against Sarkozy (...or Hollande), but she is almost guaranteed to lose against Juppé who should be able to pull a proper Chirac 2002 in the 2nd round. Sarkozy will never gather a significant amount of left-wing voters on his name
Yeah, in the case of a Sarkozy-Le Pen second turn, Sarkozy is more dangerous than Le Pen because unlike her, he'll have the deputies and senators to do what he wants.
In a Juppé-Le Pen second turn, Juppé will clearly be elected, though with probably less of a landslide than Chirac did.
Either way, unless the actual left manages to unite and get a particularly charismatic candidate, we'll see a new April 21st and will have to choose between right and far-right again.
edited 1st Jun '16 6:47:11 AM by Medinoc
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."Today, the strikes combined with the awful weather (we're having floods in some places) to make transportation a total shitstorm.
And the strikes will probably intensify tomorrow since the latest draft of the El Khomri law removes the 35-hour work week...
Oh and on a side note, Another of Hollande's electoral promises broken: After the legislative branch finally decided to remove HADOPI, the Government politely asked them not to.
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."HADO-HADOOO? HADOPIII! PIII-PIPIPI! HADO-PI!
edited 3rd Jun '16 7:29:58 AM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Is there any possible reading of this [1]
beyond it being an endorsement of the recent far-right murder of the British MP Jo Cox?
I read somewhere that, in any given country 20% of people are assholes, 20% are thoroughly decent, the rest can be swayed one way or another. In times of economic crisis and growing inequality, advantage tends to go to the former.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

How well does Juppé do in general election polls? Better than Sarkozy, I assume?