mint Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Not unexpected but interesting nevertheless?[url]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/26/michel-barnier-to-run-in-french-presidential-election[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherbanana Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 no chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted August 27, 2021 Author Share Posted August 27, 2021 Why? Wooly, please explain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherbanana Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 Too haughty, unbending, a Brussels man at a time of potential Frexit, a bureaucrat. Dont see that people will vote for him, though his ideas such as anti- immigration and recently acquired anti-EU position might appeal.Marine le Pen will have more appeal I reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted August 27, 2021 Author Share Posted August 27, 2021 I reckon if it's a choice between those two, Barnier would sneak it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherbanana Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 That is true, nimty. But the current leader in the polls is Xavier Bertrand who has been around a ling time, with good experience and better known to the people.He does no seem haughty, was not educated to run the country ( former insurance salesman) and has a better public profile.There may be other candidates who have yet to declare such as Edouard Phillippe, the former PM who seems universally respected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted August 27, 2021 Author Share Posted August 27, 2021 We'll just have to wait for Norman to declare......no, NOT for his candidacy, you goose, but maybe he'll tell us which one he thinks is best?[:P]After all, unlike us, he does have a vote... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherbanana Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 Norman will go for the one who gives him free jam donuts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted August 27, 2021 Author Share Posted August 27, 2021 Won't cost much then to buy his vote?[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 None of the people who have declared themselves candidates so far... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherbanana Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 No, Norman, you cant be President but you can wear the funny hat as you chew your locally sourced donuts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 Why can't be President? [:@] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherbanana Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 At your age, would need a dolly bird wife and or a faster scooter to run round for your evening’s ‘entertainment’! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted August 27, 2021 Author Share Posted August 27, 2021 [quote user="NormanH"]None of the people who have declared themselves candidates so far...[/quote]Well, they'd better get a move on then, hadn't they? What is it, a bare 8 month?When Macon won, he'd been preparing for 18 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherbanana Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 The extreme left are having their ‘Cirque d’Hiver’ this weekend which should be fun for them, rather like gang warfare with truncheons and spikes. The last person standing should be the candidate except for Melonshoe La Geueule who will stand against whoever, wearing silk suits as ever.And the Socialists might get stuck with She who is Mare of Paris!Poor France. Seems they might be stuck with Macron, except for LaPlume de ma Droite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherbanana Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 One blessing, Mr Retailleau is not standing, so he says, Catholic fanatic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 The article you posted about the profile of the protesters against the pass sanitaire gives an idea of the strands of thought that make up the right-wing electorate, and the Catho-facho one is quite voluble on social matters (anti-abortion, anti same -sex marriage etc).In my town the Deputé (who also happens to be the Maire's xème wife) belongs to this group, hence the fact that since he is place there has been the absurdity of a Mass in the arena to 'celebrate' the opening of the corridahttps://www.ville-beziers.fr/a-la-une/une/messe-aux-arenesIt is not only the left that is made up of irreconcilable splinters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 https://www.midilibre.fr/2021/08/28/embouteillage-a-droite-pour-la-presidentielle-9755019.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted August 28, 2021 Author Share Posted August 28, 2021 A mass to celebrate the opening of the corrida? Absolutely revolting....[6]Sometimes I don't know how a man of your sensibilities could bear to live where you do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chessfou2 Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 I liked, from the Midi Libre article, Ciotti's "un projet pour plus d’autorité, plus de liberté" - good luck on combining them!Also, Barnier seems to be taking a leaf out of the Brexiters' playbook (and maybe spiking the big guns of the extreme right) with his "limiter l’immigration et la maîtriser" ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted August 28, 2021 Author Share Posted August 28, 2021 I think Macron will remain in place, with a reduced share of the votes. No credible opposition as both the left and the right are unappealing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Huge Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 The mayor (Robert Menard) has received the anti-corrida lobby, and got his photo in Midi-Libre with them, but he is a politician and obviously thinks there are more votes to be had from the bullfighting supporters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherbanana Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 Are the bulls Catholic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 Have you never heard of a Papal Bull? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherbanana Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 Ten out of ten, Norman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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