MrCanary Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 As a second home owner in France, hoping to retire there eventually, I have a question for anyone who has had time to study the candidates in the forthcoming election.Is there any potential new president who may not be too happy about so many Brits moving to, or owning property in France?Conversely, is there anyone amongst them who will positively embrace the fact we love France so much? (Apologies if this has been asked/discussed before. I have checked, but cannot find anything) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCanary Posted April 5, 2007 Author Share Posted April 5, 2007 And is it true that the female candidate stands no chance of winning because she is female? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumziGal Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 No, just because she's a drip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 What powers does the president have? Can he/she dictate to the french Parliament? I thought this was made up of elected members, the National Assembly and the Senate. Then there's a Prime minister and a cabinet too. So what influence will this President have? Pat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarkkent Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 What powers does the president have? Can he/she dictate to the french Parliament? I thought this was made up of elected members, the National Assembly and the Senate. Then there's a Prime minister and a cabinet too. So what influence will this President have? The Fifth Republic was designed by De Gaulle to give the president considerable power but to disguise this so that dirty work is seen to be done by the Prime Minister. The PM is really the President's gopher and is chosen and sacked seemingly at the whim of the President. The PM carries the blame and the President has clean hands.This works well when the President and PM come from the same political grouping but fell apart somewhat when there was a socialist majority in parliament. Jospin had a seperate power base from Chirac and was virtually unsackable. This situation was called "co-habitation". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 [quote user="Patf"]What powers does the president have? Can he/she dictate to the french Parliament? I thought this was made up of elected members, the National Assembly and the Senate. Then there's a Prime minister and a cabinet too. So what influence will this President have? Pat.[/quote] The President is elected and he nominates his Prime Minister who will form a government. So the President is the headmaster..... He will propose things to his Prime Minister (and the Cabinet) who in turn will have to persuade his government and they (the members of the government) will have to persuade the elected deputies in the Assembly, the elected Senate is consulted later to approve or disapprove, that Mr le Président is always right! .... simple?... [8-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chessfou Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 [quote]And is it true that the female candidate stands no chance of winning because she is female?[Prasutagus][/quote]Which one? Last time I looked, there were four female candidates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCanary Posted April 5, 2007 Author Share Posted April 5, 2007 Does anybody know the answers to my original post please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasD Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 P, I am not sure it has come up. I have not heard any specific comments myself. But Sarkozi is said to be very impressed with the Brits' work ethic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCanary Posted April 5, 2007 Author Share Posted April 5, 2007 Thanks Thomas...It's that British work ethic that is encouraging me to retire to France asap! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 [quote user="Prasutagus"]As a second home owner in France, hoping to retire there eventually, I have a question for anyone who has had time to study the candidates in the forthcoming election.Is there any potential new president who may not be too happy about so many Brits moving to, or owning property in France?Conversely, is there anyone amongst them who will positively embrace the fact we love France so much? (Apologies if this has been asked/discussed before. I have checked, but cannot find anything)[/quote]Le Pen dislikes non-French, so British fit that description.Sarko admires the British and capitalist work ethics.Royal is wet and likes Tony Blair.The rest don't matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 [quote user="Logan"] Le Pen dislikes non-French, so British fit that description.Sarko admires the British and capitalist work ethics.Royal is wet and likes Tony Blair.The rest don't matter. [/quote]Le Pen ... well... he certainly is not on my Xmas card list.Sarko may admire the British but under his proposals for immigration, you could be in the same classification as those that have an excess of sun tan. As to Ségo, how can she be credible to run 'la République Française' with such grandeur in her name.Don't dismiss Bayrou yet..... his job is to upset the cart and that is an important job...The others ! ... I believe that one of them has had to retire from the race already, as he ran out of spondoolicks to pay for the posters of his campaign!... Anyway we just have to wait.... The end of May can't be here soon enough for me, at least the radio schedule will be back to normal...I wish we had the same right here to elect the next Prime Minister instead of having him catching the keys of No 10, when 'our' Ton' goes out! The thing is wholly undemocratic [:(] to my way of thinking. It's like 'our' Jacques throwing the keys of the Elysée to Sarko. No self-respecting French would allow that, so they have 'les Présidentielles' to democratically elect, fulfilling their good republican duty and give the keys to Sarko [;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 fulfilling their good republican duty and give the keys to Sarko I do hope so. France needs change, a good dose of capitalist competition, a freed up jobs market, less tax, red tape and union power. Who else is offering that? Bayrou?[:'(] He represents the same stade old nonesense which is long out of date.Read this for more incisive analysis. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/rosemary_righter//article1629499.ece?Submitted=true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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