***UPDATE***
*** FRENCH POLITICS AND CULTURE PING LIST ***
The first polls are out for the 2nd round Hollande leading 55-45. There is a lot of work to be done to overcome this 10 point gap.
But the polls were totally wrong about round1.
The debate or hopefully the debates will likely give Sarko a boost. Hollande will have to have at least one debate with Sarkozy. Sarko has challenged him to three, but he is trying to hide and is afraid to debate.
Hollande, and the people who speak for him have so far refused to answer questions about campaign promises he made to various groups. He got away with it during the 1er tour. Will he will not be able avoid a direct answer to the following in a debate:
His positions on
• giving immigrants (non citizens the right to vote) and the regularization of
illegals.
• allowing municipal facilities like swimming pools and tennis courts to conform to sharia law, separating females from males, having separate hours, etc. (already done in cities controlled by the PS)
• Will Hollande uphold his promises to the Ecologists/greens to eliminate all nuclear power in France, in the next ten years, starting immediately. Considering that France gets 80+% of its energy from
nuclear and is now an exporter of energy, thus proposal is ridiculous.
Thank you all for your interest and your very interesting and insightful posts.
I will try and answer as many questions of your questiond as I can.
I suspect that a lot of Le Pen’s votes were Sarkozy voters who want to send a message to him-that any possible coddling of Muslims will cost him votes. Hopefully, they will show up to vote on May 6.
Thanks for clarifying. Surely Hollande’s pro-immigrant stance is not so popular these days, as reality is coming clear?
I just wanted to take a moment to THANK YOU for all of the updates on the French elections. God help France - and the West - if Hollande beats out Sarkozy. Hollande’s positions you listed in #48 are downright chilling...