mint Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 For us in Aquitaine (ok, Nouvelle Aquitaine), he is a local boy made good if we agree to forget the corruption charges.What do folk on here think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Well he didn't actually go to jail, criminal record though, as he got a suspended sentence, and couldn't run for public office for 10 years. He has been a rather naughty boy in the past!!!Chances, well, if he is slippery enough to eliminate Sarko from the vote, I think he has a chance as he could well be up against Marine in the second tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluestick Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 Does the French voter have such a short term memory?Prime Minister (1995–1997)Because he supported Jacques Chirac against Edouard Balladur during the 1995 presidential campaign, he succeeded him as Prime Minister, also becoming president of the RPR. Jacques Chirac claimed Alain Juppé was "the best among us".However, in November/December 1995, his plan for Welfare State reform caused the biggest social conflict since May 68 and, under duress, abandoned it. He became the most unpopular Prime minister of the Fifth Republic (challenged only by Édith Cresson). In spring 1997, President Chirac dissolved the National Assembly but lost the legislative election.And:Criminal conviction (1999–2006)In 2004, Alain Juppé was tried for the felony of abuse of public funds, when he was head of the RPR and the RPR illegally used personnel provided by the City of Paris for running its operations. He was convicted and sentenced to an 18-month suspended jail sentence, the deprivation of civic rights for five years, and the deprivation of the right to run for political office for 10 years. He appealed the decision, whereupon his disqualification from holding elected office was reduced to one year and the suspended sentence cut to 14 months. He announced he would not appeal the ruling before the Court of Cassation. (See Corruption scandals in the Paris region)As a consequence, Alain Juppé resigned his mayorship of Bordeaux and his position of head of the Bordeaux urban community.Source:The very patrician politician, Domenique de Villepin, another Chirac protégé crashed and burned after trying to reform the social contract. Tried a comeback in 2010 and failed, dismally.Surely, Juppé is no different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 They know about his past, but it pales into insignificance alongside what they suspect about Sarkozy.He is getting on and I think he is losing his grip of detail.If he wins it will be on the basis of voters making a pact to keep the FN out rather than for his own qualities, but I have less confidence in that happening this time round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluestick Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 Agree wholly about le petit Nicolas: a very dodgy bloke.But then again, aren't they all it would seem?Including the tangerine-faced chief of the IMF...I fear Madame Lagarde will soon be getting her comeuppance; in spades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted October 25, 2016 Author Share Posted October 25, 2016 I asked because he seems to be getting a fair bit of media coverage, especially locally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 One moves to France, rather young, rather idealistic and is aware that things often seem rather louche! And one wonders how these people in power get away with things so easily, and then, much later,so it would be in the 90's all these politicians start being charged with various crimes, some became taulards (do you know that one mint?) others got suspended sentences. And others were declared innocent, but that word has all sorts of connortations and I don't think that I could say that I found any of those that went free 'innocent'[Www] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 I hate Sarko, he cost us a lot of money, may his high heels rot!!![6] ( and him too) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluestick Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 Agree about le petit Nicolas, IdunI well remember when he was Interior Minister, he grandly stated he was going to "Hose the scum into the gutters with water cannon!"And did nothing...And then promised "After I am elected I shall achieve the following (long list of critical problems), within 100 DAYS!"And, naturally, didn't achieve even one!Perhaps the most salient moment of this nasty little midget's Presidency was when his wife, the odious wannabe a singer Carla Bruni, pranced into the assembly room when a serious meeting in the Elysé and proudly presented all present with a copy of her new CD album!I shuddered when I read this.Mainly since in World diplomatic affairs, the Republic of France has always been noted for style, formality and its esteemed grasp on protocol... (One of the many aspects of la belle France which I adore and much respect.(Thinking here of Call Me Dave et al appearing in public with no tie)Receptions at embassies have also been valued as representing the very best in French cultural heritage.Yet Ms Bruni, no doubt, believed she was auditioning for a "Hello!" photoshoot, perhaps?Yuk and double yuk![:@] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 French style......... sadly that is one thing I really have against Hollande, of all his faults, poorly fitting suits should be an official offence in France!Maybe he should say to his tailor...........does my bum look big in this......... because it does. The size of it, as someone of ample proportions is not the problem, that the tailor does not 'cater' for this physically anomaly is disgraceful.Even Sarko managed to wear discrete heels, we knew he had them, but they were not evident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 I think I read in the local paper that Juppé 'took the rap' for Chirac when he was convicted.We were in M. Bricolage before the 2005 presidential election, and one of the workers there said to us 'What kind of a country is this, when our choice of president is between a criminal and N.zi?' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.