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French elections: First Round Open Thread | 37 comments (37 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Welcome to the rest of Europe France! (none / 1)
Sarkozy's plan is to prep the LR party to win a majority of seats in June and rule the country regardless of who is president.
by Bernard (bernard) on Mon Apr 24th, 2017 at 06:17:33 PM EST
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Re: Welcome to the rest of Europe France! (none / 1)
Yes - I did fear we would end up with the worst of both worlds.
And Macron would not have much to disagree with Sarkozy, so they should find the arrangement quite palatable...

The silver lining would be that the Right would probably own the discontent 5 years later.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Mon Apr 24th, 2017 at 09:24:20 PM EST
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French elections: First Round Open Thread | 37 comments (37 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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