Posted on 06/12/2007 4:05:17 PM PDT by paudio
Deeply divided, the main opposition Socialists suffered a blow when centrist leader Francois Bayrou rejected negotiations on forming an alliance ahead of the second round of voting on Sunday.
Segolene Royal, who lost to Sarkozy in last month's presidential election, had called Bayrou to try to tap into his voter base as the Socialists faced another potentially disastrous defeat in the elections.
"I will not give supporters any guidance on how to vote. I will not enter into these kinds of mechanics," Bayrou, whose Democratic Movement picked up 7.6 percent of the national vote on Sunday, told RTL radio.
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I am so happy for Sarko—this is wonderful for France. I am back to buying brie and champaqne again, it’s wonderful for me, too! Vive la France!
What would be wonderful is if he set up tribunals to punish Chirac for Oil for Food and decided to send a couple of thousand troops to Iraq.
I am sure with the lack of jobs, they would flock to the military to kill Jihadists.
Euro-rats, scrambling.
“Too bad our president doesn’t understand this nation cannot stand the introduction of 15-40 million new low paid serfs.”
Don’t be misled; he is fully aware of this fact. But when you have sold your soul to the concept of one-world-government a.k.a. globalization, you’ll do anything to blow smoke up the electorate’s behind. America’s sovereignty is of no importance to these people.
You are delusional.
Royal just isn’t in the same league as Sarko when it comes to political strategy. Sarko is a master Chess player. Sego, and all the other archaic Socialists can barely manage one move at a time.
This just in from BOZ at Politique Blog:
BAYROU DEAL FALLS THROUGH
Segolene Royal’s attempt to create a last-ditch PS-MoDem alliance ahead of this weekend’s legislative runoff has collapsed in ruins today due to the making of her own party and that of Nicolas Sarkozy.
First, Sarkozy ordered that the UMP candidate facing MoDem’s chief Francois Bayrou drop out of the race, leaving only a Socialist to challenge Bayrou in his legislative district.
Bayrou later said that he did not return Royal’s call, leaving the Socialist Party itself to clarify its position this evening, saying that all PS voters should support Socialist candidates in the runoff, and if not possible, to favor pluralism (not UMP and allies).
The real interesting thing will be to see how Royal comes out of this somewhat disastrous political mishap. By being decisively rejected by fellow party members, it could leave her damaged in a bid to lead the party after Francois Hollande steps down. On the other hand, if the Socialist Party does badly (remember, this is all relative) this coming weekend, she could once again appear to have been handicapped by feuding within her own party hierarchy, which could leave PS members slightly more sympathetic. Either way, the only winner in all of this is President Sarkozy.
This is an amazing development.
Hint: Burn all the cars. That will stop them.
Wow. Seems that Socialism thingy ain't doin' so hot over there.
If it holds up, this could be an even larger equivalent of the Democrat win of Congress in 1936 when the GOP was eviscerated down to 89 of 435 seats in the House (and only 17 of 96 in the Senate), albeit with the opposite ideological party. The GOP has never held those reverse numbers.
“You are delusional.”
Nahh... Just looking for any excuse so I can enjoy French Fries again.
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