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Posted on 11/19/2012 12:02:48 AM PST by Cincinna
A bitter election battle to succeed Nicolas Sarkozy as new leader of France’s main centre-Right party, UMP, has gone down to the wire in a contest that could decide whether or not the group swings farther Right.
Jean-Francois Cope, the party’s firebrand secretary-general, was more than 3,000 votes ahead of the moderate Francois Fillon, with some 155,000 ballots counted from the election among the party’s 300,000 members.
With the outcome still unclear, the surprise of the night was the higher-than-expected score of Mr Copé, 48, who was expected to finish well behind Mr Fillon, 58. Last night members of the Copé camp in the southern Alpes Maritimes departement claimed the vote had been the victim of “irregularities” - an allegation dismissed as “insulting” by supporters of Mr Fillon.
The mood was turning amid claims of voter irregularities, with a possible recount looming in Nice.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
A recent IFOP opinion poll said that two-thirds of UMP supporters hoped Mr Sarkozy would make a comeback and run for the presidency in 2017.
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Looks like UMP has a Tea Party faction?
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Sounds like he has listened to a few Tea Party lectures.
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If Sarkozy hadn’t screwed up, France wouldn’t have the turdpile Marxist François Hollande as President.
Prediction! The next president of France will be a woman.
Jean-Francois Cope, the party's firebrand secretary-general, was more than 3,000 votes ahead of the moderate Francois FillonOh, is that all? Looks like some party media shilling from France in that headline.
Oh yeah, I miss her. Not sure who the dude on the left is.
“Prediction! The next president of France will be a woman.”
A Muslim woman.
I’m afraid my take on the French since de Gaulle left the scene is that from time to time they get tired of Communists and socialists and vote them out, but that the conservatives who replace them have almost always been afraid to DO anything.
Much like the RINOs in the U.S.
The current Communist in Charge is a nutball, but I don’t see much hope that his replacement will do much to really undo the underlying damage. Sarkozy talked a good fight before he first came into power, but again he didn’t do much, notably against the Muslim threat.
Maybe Cope might be different, but the precedents make that pretty doubtful, IMHO. Undoing a cradle-to-death entitlement system isn’s easy.
“right” is Europe means something very different than it does here.
I agree: undoing the social welfare state will not be easy. It’s like an addiction.
Sarko did his best to start the process. Hollande is a total catastrophe, personally and politically. Polls show him in the 35% approval zone, with 64% of UMP and an ever growing number of French who want him back, as the candidate in 2017.
To those ill-informed dolts who think the next president will be a woman, as in Marine Le Pen, think again, ma chéri. MLP is a Bational Socialist who believes in the State and not individual liberty and responsibility. She is her father, or l’Oncle Adolf in drag.
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