A video for Sarkozy

The title of the video is : "The judges of political correctness against Nicolas Sarkozy". And the text of the video is : "guilty of fighting crime", "guilty of fighting religious integrism", "guilty of fighting terrorism", "guilty of thinking of the future of France"

Thanks drzz for posting the link and the great picture.

What do you think will be the result of le Pen’s call for his supporters to abstain?

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FRENCH FAR-RIGHT LEADER CALLS ON SUPPORTERS TO ABSTAIN FROM VOTE
Posted by Cincinna to All
On News/Activism 05/01/2007 2:54:24 PM EDT · 32 of 32

UPDATE from The Tocqueville Connection

FRENCH FAR-RIGHT LEADER CALLS ON SUPPORTERS TO ABSTAIN
Received Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:27:00 GMT
PARIS, May 1, 2007 (AFP) - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen called on his supporters Tuesday to abstain in this weekend’s presidential vote pitting rightwinger Nicolas Sarkozy against socialist Segolene Royal.

“Both of them are official representatives of parties and policies that for the past 30 years have brought France to the brink of a political, economic, social, cultural and moral abyss,” he told cheering supporters in Paris.
The National Front leader, who stunned France in 2002 when he made it to the run-off presidential ballot against Jacques Chirac, urged his voters to “save their votes” for parliamentary elections in June.

“I call on voters who have shown their confidence in me to cast their vote neither for Madame Royal nor for Mr Sarkozy,” said Le Pen in a speech in front of the ornate Paris opera house after his party’s traditional May 1 parade.
More than 4,000 supporters took part in the parade, shouting “We want Le Pen, not Segolene. We want Jean-Marie, not Sarkozy.”
Some 3.8 million people voted in the first round for the 78-year-old anti-immigrant leader, who took fourth place with 10.44 percent of the vote.

Le Pen lost many voters to Sarkozy, the rightwinger who has consistently led in the opinion polls since campaigning began.
He has accused Sarkozy during the campaign of encroaching on his territory with his tough stance on immigration and law and order, and Sarkozy’s left-wing critics likewise accused him of pandering to the extreme right.
But Le Pen warned: “It would be illusory and dangerous to vote for the socialist candidate to get revenge for the hold-up carried out on our programme by Nicolas Sarkozy.”

The majority of Le Pen voters — 61 percent according to a poll published Tuesday — were seen as likely to plump for Sarkozy. The Ipsos/Dell poll said 15 percent would pick Royal.

The presidential rivals were continuing their battle for support from the 6.8 million voters who chose the centrist Francois Bayrou in the April 22 first round.
Bayrou has denounced Sarkozy and has been making overtures to Royal, a former environment minister. An Ipsos opinion poll released Tuesday said 41 percent of voters who picked Bayrou in the first round will choose Royal on Sunday, while 32 percent will go for Sarkozy.

The high point of the election campaign comes on Wednesday, when Sarkozy and Royal, who wants to be France’s first woman president, face each other for a two-hour televised debate expected to attract 20 million viewers.
Sarkozy, the son of a Hungarian immigrant, has pushed a right-wing programme based on the themes of work and national identity. His tough talk has sparked fears he would divide rather than unite the nation.

Royal, an army officer’s daughter, has presented herself as a nurturing mother figure and has proposed a leftist economic programme that would keep France’s generous welfare system intact.
Both candidates come from a new generation of leaders born after World War II, and both claim to represent a break from a discredited past.
The pair also agree that France needs radical solutions to save it from a huge public debt, stubbornly high unemployment and seething discontent in the high-immigration suburbs.

Sarkozy, 52, was on the campaign trail Tuesday in the northwestern Brittany region, while Royal was due at a May 1 Workers’ Day meeting at a Paris stadium, her last big rally in the capital before the vote.
The Ipsos poll put Sarkozy at 53 percent of voting intentions and Royal at 47 percent in the race to pick a successor to Jacques Chirac, who steps down next month after leading the country for 12 years.

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