France General Discussion II: Living under Marxism

[Zinneke]

80% of voters don't want Flamby to run again, including a majority of Socialists. For some reason French presidents can never leave office voluntarily with a good approval rating...

The depressing thing is that people seem to want that piece of sh*t Valls to run instead.

Valls would win vs Sarkozy in a run-off.

[Antonio the Sixth]

80% of voters don't want Flamby to run again, including a majority of Socialists. For some reason French presidents can never leave office voluntarily with a good approval rating...

The depressing thing is that people seem to want that piece of sh*t Valls to run instead.

Valls would win vs Sarkozy in a run-off.

And what great triumph it would be, since Valls is barely to the left of Sarkozy on any given issue.

[RogueBeaver]

Flamby will announce his electoral intentions at year's end.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Apparently there were talks of banning Muslim headscarves in friggin' Universities recently, but thankfully the government shut that down.

[The Last Northerner]

Chirac's daughter, Laurence, passed away the other day. Condolences to the family.

[DC Al Fine]

How would Quebec vote if it's current party system was replaced with the French one? I think this might be a more interesting version of the old 'Canada would vote 80% Democrat' exercise.

Would Quebec be disproportionatley LR, FN, or PS?  How would smaller groups like MoDem, Greens and FG do?

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

I'm deeply sorry to announce you that Québec isn't part of France anymore, yeah, it's a shame but so went History.

Bloody Pompadour.

[mvd10]

http://www.euronews.com/2016/05/03/france-will-not-accept-ttip-without-rules-says-hollande/

Hollande trying to win back lefties he offended with his labour reforms?

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How would Quebec vote if it's current party system was replaced with the French one? I think this might be a more interesting version of the old 'Canada would vote 80% Democrat' exercise.

Would Quebec be disproportionatley LR, FN, or PS?  How would smaller groups like MoDem, Greens and FG do?

Is this a hypothetical Quebec with the Anglos partitioned away?

[DC Al Fine]

How would Quebec vote if it's current party system was replaced with the French one? I think this might be a more interesting version of the old 'Canada would vote 80% Democrat' exercise.

Would Quebec be disproportionatley LR, FN, or PS?  How would smaller groups like MoDem, Greens and FG do?

Is this a hypothetical Quebec with the Anglos partitioned away?

Good question I hadn't thought about them. I assume they would be right and/or separatist relative to francophones.... let's say the Anglo are partitioned away.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

How would Quebec vote if it's current party system was replaced with the French one? I think this might be a more interesting version of the old 'Canada would vote 80% Democrat' exercise.

Would Quebec be disproportionatley LR, FN, or PS?  How would smaller groups like MoDem, Greens and FG do?

Is this a hypothetical Quebec with the Anglos partitioned away?

Good question I hadn't thought about them. I assume they would be right and/or separatist relative to francophones.... let's say the Anglo are partitioned away.

Let's say we throw them to the Neptune ring called Equality.

http://www.euronews.com/2016/05/03/france-will-not-accept-ttip-without-rules-says-hollande/

Hollande trying to win back lefties he offended with his labour reforms?

Nah, Hollande trying to show how tooough he can be againt the bloody Anglos since we unfortunately doesn't have yet build a space program to throw them to Venus, and this in order to try to buy...hmm...what?...at lest 60% of the French population which for very different reasons would be against the insanity you mentionned above.

[swl]

The emergency state in France has been extended for 2 months, until July 26. It gives exceptional powers to the police and the security services. The main purpose of these extension is to cover the Euro cup and the Tour de France,  both sport events that will attract large crowds and are considered as likely ISIS targets.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Police might need extended powers lately, yeah...



Sickeness sickening sickness...

[Hnv1]

So...it seems everyone's on strike with major riots breaking in large cities. Any French poster care to give his take on the matter?
Hoping Hollande does a de Gaulle and flees to Germany

[swl]

I think the protests will slowly die out with the holidays approching. High schoolers and students are not taking part anymore as they are busy with exams and then holidays. They are the only ones able to go around and block cities every day. Some unions are trying to block oil refineries, but when the situation is getting near critical in some region the government sends the police to break the blokade, as they did in the past days. The government could decide to open all the refineries in the same time but they wont as it may backfire, it's a better strategy to go slowly.

Finally in 2 weeks the Euro is starting and it's not sure what protesters will do, on the one side if they decide to mess with it it could be really annoying for the government, onhe other side public and media attention will be busy with something else so it will be easier for the police to hit back at the protesters.

[swl]

Tomorrow a new massive demonstration is set to take place in Paris against the labor law. The protests and strikes lost momentum in the last 10 days as refineries reopened and the public attention diverted somewhere else (floods, and then the Euro). There were still some strikes that caused limited disturbances in the transports, but nothing huge.

I think this will be the last big demonstration since the holidays are starting very soon. I assume the law will be adopted for good in the summer without further trouble. Still, expect the usual riots in Paris tomorrow.

The police are really earning their money these days with terrorism + Euro cup + labor law protests.

[Hifly]

Have there been any parliamentary polls lately? What is the situation?

[swl]

There are no polls for the parliamentary election since pollsters still focus on the presidential election only. The situation in the last polls is not very different compared to the last months.

More or less it shows:

If Juppé is LR candidate, Bayrou (centrist) does not run

Juppé 35%
Le Pen 27%
Hollande 14%
Melenchon 10-12%

2nd round : Juppé 70 Le Pen 30

If Sarkozy is LR candidate, Bayrou (centrist) runs

Le Pen 27%
Sarkozy 21%
Hollande 14%
Bayrou: 10-12%
Melenchon: 10-12%


2nd round: Sarkozy between 55 and 60 Le Pen between 40 and 45

[windjammer]

Le Pen is a bit declining.

[swl]

The police are really earning their money these days with terrorism + Euro cup + labor law protests.

To follow up in this,  a cop and his wife were killed in their house yesterday by an ISIS sympathizer.
This is a big shock for all policemen because, if they accept the risk of their jobs, they do not expect to be targeted outside of their service, or their family to be targeted as well.
The government will have to make sure that the police forces do not become too unhappy... Additionally, we can expect the police and justice to be harsh with troublemakers during demonstrations or football matches.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Just fyi, I have officially lost any respect I still had for the PS (and yes, before that last bill I still did have some).

[The Last Northerner]

François Hollande meets Marine Le Pen to discuss Brexit fallout

[CatoMinor]

I wonder if all these attacks in Europe will be enough to scare the French in to making La Pen competitive in the second round next year.

[RogueBeaver]

Sarko's officially in.

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Sarko's officially in.

Jail?