posted on April 21, 2002 08:04:32 PM new
I think that it is several things. A complacent incumbent party and leader who hasn't had to go "work the Vote" for decades. A beaucratic system so entrenched that it has alienated most of its citizens. A loss of national identity in accepting the Euro. An opportunity for clever Nationalist politicos. A backlash by French businesses who are tired of being "tolerated" by a pro-communist regeime. It is also the natural order of things to go from the Left to the Right and then back again to the Left in a never-ending cycle.
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[ edited by Borillar on Apr 21, 2002 08:06 PM ]
posted on April 22, 2002 01:56:12 PM new
As Borillar pointed out the political atmosphere cycles through right and left but I would add - as new voters come of age and are suckers for all the stale old fixes that their grandfathers fell for.
posted on April 23, 2002 06:32:01 PM new
France was always in a bad place on the map anyhow moving it a little left or right could be just whats needed !!!
I bet if they suff that country under the leaning tower it will make it Straight.
