The Last Northerner
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« on: June 22, 2016, 05:57:39 AM » |
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« edited: June 22, 2016, 05:04:04 PM by The Last Northerner »
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65 De Gaulle
69 Pompidou
74 Chaban-Delmas / Giscard*
81 Chirac, Garaud / Giscard*
88 Chirac**
95 Chirac
02 Chirac, Saint-Josse / Chirac
07 Nihous / Invalid
12 See Below
* With hesitation.
** Personal vote.
Updated with details ala Sunrise.
- De Gaulle was good, esp. in foreign affairs and needs no defense. Pompidou was the best candidate to continue that.
- Chaban-Delmas had some interesting ideas in handling post May-68 France and is preferable to the social liberal, ultra pro-European Giscard. He was not a bad President but my R2 74/81 votes are more anti-Mitterand than pro-Giscard.
- With hindsight, I might go Garaud since Chirac wasn't making it to the 2nd round anyways and no one knew what the EU would evolve into.
- Some of the Chirac votes are more about the person than about policy and I would have hesitated in a few elections - 1988/R1 2002. Given Chirac's 1st term was the lesser one, I MIGHT have considered an alternative.
- Since the 2007 field was horrible and the French Greens are really stupid, I'd protest with CPNT to troll them and fishing is fun.
- Royal is dumb, I hate Sarkozy for a variety of reason (NATO, Middle East affairs, strongman quasi-populism, handling of religious issues, anomosity with Chirac, etc.), and never trusted Hollande to be competent. Villepin would have gotten my vote if he ran but otherwise, France is screwed.
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