Posted on 12/01/2016 12:00:41 PM PST by BlessedBeGod
PARIS — President François Hollande stunned France on Thursday when he announced that he would not run for a second term in next year’s presidential election.
In a televised address from the Élysée Palace, Mr. Hollande said that he was “aware of the risks” of a candidacy that would not “rally” enough people to it.
“I have thus decided not to be a candidate in the presidential elections,” Mr. Hollande said.
Mr. Hollande, a Socialist, ended weeks of speculation about his intentions to participate in a re-election bid that few observers thought he could win. He has had some of the worst approval ratings for a president in modern French history...
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The post of dog catcher might be open.
Hollande admited that even he wouldn’t vote for himself if he ran for re-election.
Or dog feeces “wrangler.”
The LBJ effect - the ego of legacy vs. the ego of reality.
More Winning!! Can't take it!!! Need a vacation!!
Trump Effect
Good riddance to Hollande.
May his retirement home be right in the middle of a no go Muslim zone.
Hmmm, could all of the terrorist attacks in France have something to do with this????
Good news for Marie le Pen (who has recently conferred with Trump).
Every dog has his day. I guess Hollande’s day is almost done.
Now he can spend more time with his main mistress Valerie Trierweiler.
Nick Sarkozy is also being shut out. Sarkozy has become quite the Globalist promoter here lately, as though he has jumped on the USS AlGore now slowly sinking under it’s own weight of mythology and presumption.
He is so unpopular you wouldn’t believe it. NOBODY in France likes Hollande.
Easy now.... hold it in the road!!
Mon Dieu!
He pulled a Johnson.
Really! That’s good to learn. She’s one of the few in European rightist parties whom I really take seriously as a politician.
Now to get rid of Merkel.
Still, I thought he was better than bammy.
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