Sarkozy is not the answer.
Posted on 12/13/2015 9:50:23 AM PST by Nextrush
We will soon know around 2pm Eastern (8pm in France) who the winners and losers were in the regional government elections.
The National Front is hoping for a breakthrough in northern France led by Marine Le Pen and in the southeast of France led by Marion Marechal Le Pen.
The media and political elites in France have pulled out the stops to attack the FN and put it in a negative light.
Marine Le Pen has been subjected to hostile coverage as part of the media backlash against Donald Trump with attempts to trash Trump's immigration proposals and accuse Le Pen of being like him in a negative way.
Marion Marechal Le Pen has been pictured with her grandfather, National Front founder Jean Marie Le Pen. The media suggesting she is some sort of anti-Semite or racist, charges which have been leveled against him.
France's Chief Rabbi spoke out against the National Front in the last week.
The hopes of stopping the Le Pen sisters are put in the party of former president Nicholas Sarkozy, Les Republicains (The Republicans). In the two regions where the Le Pen's are running, the Socialists are pulled out.
Polling data was put out during the week suggesting the FN may come short of 50 percent (46 percent in the north, 47 percent in the southeast) with Les Republicains winning.
The Republicans are aptly named because they are the fake conservatives of France much like the Republicans are fake conservatives in the United States.
Sarkozy chose the "Republican" label as a means of identifying his party with the notion of a "Republic" in France, a stab at a patriotic image to oppose the FN.
Sarkozy is to the Left of me like the Republicans in this country. When Sarkozy was president, he increased funding for public broadcasting in France as an example.
His party is for the EU and multinational government that may not be in the interest of sovereign nations like having rules not allowing secured borders.
Sarkozy leads 'the Right' in France founded by Charles De Gaulle, who led the "Rally for the Republic" Party decades ago and was the founder of France's "Fifth Republic" established in 1958.
De Gaulle backed out of politics after World War 2, but came back in 1958 amidst turmoil in France, insisting that a new constitution be approved giving him as president strong powers to deal with factional groups of politicians in the National Assembly.
De Gaulle sold out the French colonists in Algeria to the leftists fighting for independence there.
This led to a 1961 coup attempt by rebellious military units and generals in Algeria and an attempt to assassinate De Gaulle in 1963.
After Algeria was turned over to the leftists, many of the colonists came back to southern France and would fuel the membership of the National Front in its earlier years.
It was only a game. They were playing good cop bad cop.
Sarkozy is not the answer.
I hope so
A picture is worth a thousand words.....
I’m thinking that Sarkozy and Hollande are praying that there will be no major terrorist incidents in 2016-2017.
Ditto
There wasn’t really teaming up. Socialists just withdrew their candidates from two regions they knew they couldn’t win. Both of these regions ended up going to the Republicans over FN.
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