Posted on 04/14/2007 1:38:27 AM PDT by Cincinna
Le Nouvel Observateur claims that the French internal information agency "Les Renseignements généraux" (RG) has carried out a 15,000 person survey ahead of next week's election, codenamed "Mercure". According to the secret report, Nicolas Sarkozy will finish with 25% of 26%, followed by Jean-Marie Le Pen and Francois Bayrou tied with 19%, and Socialist candidate Segolene Royal just slightly behind.
The report has been officially denied by RG, stating that "Since July 15, 2004, we no longer have the right to conduct electoral forecasts." However, some close to the Interior Ministry told the Observateur that "They (RG) cannot do differently than to deny this activity, because it has become illegal for three years."
The existence of the report has been confirmed.
(Excerpt) Read more at tempsreel.nouvelobs.com ...
LOL, no problem. I have the same problem, in fact I invented the problem...hey that means you owe me royalties...YES!
Le Pen is a part of the past. He underwent a huge physical and PR makeover 20 years ago, but he is still saddled with his anti-semitic racist past. He is 78 years old and his time has come and gone.
Sarko is young, dynamic, and fully aware of the reality of the world we live in today. He is the smartest of the lot by a longshot, and has the strength of character that the others don’t have.
Le Pen’s time has come and gone. He is right on certain immigration issues, but even a broken clock is right twice a day.
For Sarko to win the election battle with Royal would signal a clearcut break with the past, and frankly, the death of the power of the Left in France, which has been dying for years. A win over Le Pen would not have the same impact.
The ideology of Le Pen offers no solution for the problems of a modern day democracy like France.
Very possible a ploy. The existence of the report has been confirmed, but I think the Socialists,in total panic mode, leaked it.
I think this very “fishy” translation confirms that the report does, indeed, exist.
I don’t think the article’s conclusion is correct. It might just backfire. I think it was leaked by Royal’s camp to try and recapture the hard core left that is against her. Even if she captured every single vote of the non-PS left, she still wouldn’t have enough to win in a run-off.
I will be posting the latest polls later today.
Since French Election Law ....see what its like when the government controls everything :+} The law prohibits polling a certain number of days before the vote. So Tuesday or Wednesday will be the end of the published polls.
Unfortunately, scum like Le Pen still dominates the nationalists in France. Le Pen sells them out to Muslims but he is inconsistant and the left scream about him, so the uneducated think he is a nationalist, not a Quisling.
Sounds like disinformation to discredit Sarkozy.
That was an amusing translation, regardless. :’)
C, you may be onto something there.
"Our family life was not always joyous, said Royal, who was born in Senegal, where her father was posted, and spent the first few years of her life in Martinique,"
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