The two most reform-minded big candidates in the election are Nicolas Sarkozy and Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Obviously their ideas of “reform” are a bit different.
It will be interesting to see how well Le Pen polls. A little bird tells me that people are absolutely fed up with the criminality and the rioting and the property damage, moreso than ever before.
I will not be a bit surprised to see a runoff between Sarkozy and Le Pen.
Le Pen is hardly a reformer. His economic and social ideas are totally retrograde. He is a man of the past, while Sarko is the man of the present and future.
There was a policeman murdered in Paris yesterday, at an amusement park. “Yoots” again. People are totally fed up with crime and rampant violence.
Gotta be a little picky here. The polls are dealing in a couple or a few percentage points.
The CIA World Factbook has the< GDP (official exchange rate):
UK $2.341 trillion (2006 est.)
France $2.154 (2006 est.)
yitbos
Always Paris. What's happening outside that metro area?
yitbos
I remember you support Bayrou, but do you think a Sarkozy-Le Pen runoff is a possibility? :Le Pen wound up in the runoff against Chirac, with Le Pen having pushed the socialist candidate right out, so I guess it’s possible. And I’m not too sure I believe poll numbers myself... :’)
I just saw a report in CNN International where some French analysts said that voter registration among immigrants was dramatically up, and that many of them intends to vote for Le Pen.
The reason?
They want to destroy the current system.