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Berry Deep France (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Smiles all round. The three happiest men in France On the left, but certainly on the right, our current leader, President Nicolas Sarkozy. In the middle (in all senses of the word ) we have François Bayrou, leader of the recently formed « MODEM » party. Finally on the right, but quite definitley on the left, Olivier Besancenot – ex-leadre of the defunct Revolutionary Communist Party and soon to be...
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French Politics (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
Bertrand Delanoë, stung by the perception that he is the "big loser" in the vote of Socialist militants, took the podium today and tried to magnify François Bayrou, that armyless captain, into a scourge of the Left on a par with Nicolas Sarkozy. The ploy was transparent: Ségolène Royal "pals around with" rightists, to borrow the Palinesque idiom, and is therefore unacceptable as a leader of the
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The Croydonian (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Lib Dem equivalent Francois Bayrou is claiming that Martine 'Daughter of Jacques Delors' Aubry voted for him in the first round of the Presidential elections last year , in preference to her party's candidate, Ségolène Royal. Aubry is denying it, natch. Shades of that story about Lyndon Johnson and his pig-husbanding opponent? Mind you, she was the one who cooked up the ' extracting moonbeams from...
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Islam in Europe (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
A study by Ifop for La Croix finds that the French Socialist Party rules among Muslims. The survey shows the political profile of the French Muslims as close to the Left, critical of Nicolas Sarkozy and regarding François Bayrou with new sympathy. In 2004 the first study of its kind already revealed French Muslim sympathies for the Left. Today this tendency is still confirmed and established. In four...
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French Politics (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Ségolène Royal's apartment was burgled, and she charged that Sarkozy was behind it. Now a court has awarded Bernard Tapie a large settlement in a lawsuit, and François Bayrou alleges that Sarko is behind that, too. It's a good thing he's a hyperpresident. Otherwise he wouldn't have enough time to get into so much mischief. It is a trifle unseemly, though, for presidential candidates to be
