I hear the loser concedes by waving a white flag — in French tradition.
FReeper drzz has a website that may release early information.
Search his posts for details.
FReepMail me if you want to be on the FRENCH ELECTION PING LIST.
Frog 1 - “Who won the election?”
Frog 2 - “I give up.”
Umm, why don’t they just ban polling in France 24 hours before election instead of banning the results of polls?
At first this seems horrifying, but upon reflection seems reasonable. Scratch that, we've got McCain-Feingold to protect us.
The only thing that matters about this election in France is that Chirac is gone...joining Germany’s Schroeder and Canada’s Martin, Saddam Hussein, and every other major leader who opposed the Iraq War.
In contrast, President Bush and PM Blair and PM Howard are still in Office.
So by 4:30 tomorrow, we will know one way or another?
Cool.
The riots aren’t as big a thing as a general strike would be, that would be painful.
As much as I love election day news I think forbidden polling results until all states have finished (including Hawaii) is a good idea
Liberals are so stupid rocks are ashamed of them...
from Wilkepedia, take it for what its worth:
“Ségolène Royal was born in the military base of Ouakam, Dakar, Senegal on 22 September 1953, the daughter of Hélène Dehaye and Jacques Royal, a former artillery officer and aide to the mayor of Chamagne (Vosges).
Her parents had eight children in nine years: Marie-Odette, Marie-Nicole, Gérard, Marie-Ségolène, Antoine, Paul, Henry and Sigisbert.
After high school, Marie-Ségolène was admitted to Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, an elite university, popularly called Sciences Po. In summer 1971, she was an au pair in Dublin, Ireland.[1] In 1972, at the age of 19, Ségolène sued her father because he refused to divorce her mother and pay alimony and child support to finance the children’s education. She won the case after many years in court, shortly before Jacques Royal died of lung cancer in 1981. Six of the eight children had refused to see him again at Ségolène’s insistence.[2]
Her cousin Anne-Christine Royal has been a candidate of the far-right Front National party at a local election in Bordeaux.[3]
Her brother Antoine named his and Ségolène’s brother Gérard Royal as the agent who placed the bomb that sank the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior. [4] [5]. Other sources claims this statement is exaggerated and that Gérard was part of the logistics team.[6]
Ségolène Royal is a graduate of the elite École nationale d’administration (ENA) along with much of France’s political elite, and was in the same class as the Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin.[7] Since the late 1970s, Ségolène Royal has been the private-life partner of François Hollande, currently first secretary of the French Socialist Party, whom she met at ENA. The couple have four children: Thomas (b. 1984), Clémence (b. 1985), Julien (b. 1987) and Flora (b. 1993). While not married, they are bound by the PACS (pacte civil de solidarité), which provides for a civil union between two adults, regardless of gender.”
Hey, at least she has a brother(Gérard Royal) and a cousin (Anne-Christine Royal) that may have a promising political career.
Gérard Royal
Gérard Royal is the former agent of the French intelligence agency DGSE who is accused of being a Rainbow Warrior bomber. A long serving officer, who retired from the French Army with the rank of Colonel, Royal works in an “economic intelligence business”. He is the brother of French presidential candidate Ségolène Royal.
In 1985 Royal was a member of the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) (”General Directorate of External Security”), implicated in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. Since 1995 it had been public knowledge that Royal was one of the team of saboteurs. In September 2006, as his sister Ségolène became a candidate for the presidency, Gérard returned to media attention when his brother Antoine told Le Parisien that he had admitted to being the man who planted the bombs which killed Fernando Pereira.
Le Parisien quoted Antoine as saying “...he was called upon in 1985 to go to New Zealand, to Auckland Harbor, to sabotage the Rainbow Warrior. Later, he told me that it was him who planted the bomb on the Greenpeace ship”. However some French media, citing sources within the DGSE, have stated that Royal was merely the pilot of the inflatable boat carrying the bombers. Royal has refused to confirm or deny that he planted the bombs, but made a statement complaining of “harassment by the media”.
Pereira’s daughter and Greenpeace both called for the New Zealand government to demand the extradition of Royal to stand trial for the murder. But the government made clear that they considered the case as closed.
http://www.answers.com/topic/g-rard-royal
Yeah with the internet, this is a realistic option.....
right-winger Nicolas SarkozySure, but is Segolene Royal a left-winger?