New French President, Reactions?
Hey folks,
There is a new leader in France. He seems to be looking to change things completely around. According to CNN -Sarkozy: I have mandate for change.
PARIS, France (CNN) -- Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy greeted news of his election Sunday to a five-year term as France's president with a vow to serve as a leader for all people of France.
"The president of the republic must love and respect all the French," he told cheering supporters at his campaign headquarters. "I will be the president of all the French people."
Sarkozy won with 53 percent of the vote in Sunday's presidential runoff, according to preliminary results issued by the French Interior Ministry. Socialist Segolene Royal took 47 percent of the vote.
"The French people have called for change. I will carry out that change, because that's the mandate I have received from the French people."
Get this folks, this is interesting.
Sarkozy added that he wanted to tell his "American friends that they can rely on our friendship ... France will always be next to them when they need us."
That is a change. Now if it is simple political talk of if he means it, is two different things. Time will tell on that one. Here is what he said after that.
But, he added, "Friends can think differently."
He then called on the United States "not to impede" in the fight against global warming. "On the contrary, they must lead this fight because humanity's fate is at stake here."
{Laughing} Global Warming. {Sigh}
Hey folks,
There is a new leader in France. He seems to be looking to change things completely around. According to CNN -Sarkozy: I have mandate for change.PARIS, France (CNN) -- Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy greeted news of his election Sunday to a five-year term as France's president with a vow to serve as a leader for all people of France.
"The president of the republic must love and respect all the French," he told cheering supporters at his campaign headquarters. "I will be the president of all the French people."
Sarkozy won with 53 percent of the vote in Sunday's presidential runoff, according to preliminary results issued by the French Interior Ministry. Socialist Segolene Royal took 47 percent of the vote.
"The French people have called for change. I will carry out that change, because that's the mandate I have received from the French people."
Get this folks, this is interesting.
Sarkozy added that he wanted to tell his "American friends that they can rely on our friendship ... France will always be next to them when they need us."
That is a change. Now if it is simple political talk of if he means it, is two different things. Time will tell on that one. Here is what he said after that.
But, he added, "Friends can think differently."
He then called on the United States "not to impede" in the fight against global warming. "On the contrary, they must lead this fight because humanity's fate is at stake here."
{Laughing} Global Warming. {Sigh}
Now here is some things he wants to do. He wants to build a "link" between Europe and Africa. He said he will produce a new immigration policy, ETC. But this is interesting also.
But he said that France would "stand next to" those who are persecuted by tyrants, dictatorships."
"We are going to write together a new page of our history. This page, my dear fellow citizens, I am sure it will be great."
According to the AP -France's Sarkozy plans reform package
Sarkozy, a pro-American conservative and an immigrant's son, defeated Socialist Segolene Royal by 53.06 percent to 46.94 percent with an 84 percent voter turnout, according to final results released early Monday.
But there is this threat that his supporters are truly fearful of. We KNOW all about it here.
The election left little time for celebrating: Legislative elections are slated for June 10 and 17, and Sarkozy's conservative UMP party needs a majority to keep his mandate for reforms. A win by the left would bring "cohabitation" — an awkward power-sharing with a leftist prime minister — which would put a stop to his plans.
Yes folks. All the French have to do is look HERE. Then they will see the chaos and obstruction that can happen. All they have to do is look at our do nothing Congress we have now. But WE could learn something from THEM. From Socialist Bernard Kouchner. It is something I have been trying to warn the Democrats of for over a year now.
Following the defeat, high-ranking Socialist Bernard Kouchner, the former health minister who co-founded Doctors Without Boarders, immediately called for the party to stop courting the far-left and ally the center. "We have to change our formatting, our ways of thinking, on the left," he told TF1.
I bet you the Hillary camp has been watching this election VERY closely. I wonder if now we will see her start to pander more to the moderates and Independents herself. Just like Royal in France, Hillary is set to be America's first female President. Just like Royal, she caters and panders to the LWL {Left Wing Looney fringe} Just like Royal, she will be running against someone more Conservative than she. She does not want to be just like Royal, and lose.
Royal would have been France's first female president. Her defeat could throw her party into disarray, with splits between those who say it must remain firm to its leftist traditions and others who want a shift to the political center like socialist parties elsewhere in Europe.
That could very well happen here as well. Should be interesting to watch it all pan out.
But he said that France would "stand next to" those who are persecuted by tyrants, dictatorships."
"We are going to write together a new page of our history. This page, my dear fellow citizens, I am sure it will be great."
According to the AP -France's Sarkozy plans reform package
Sarkozy, a pro-American conservative and an immigrant's son, defeated Socialist Segolene Royal by 53.06 percent to 46.94 percent with an 84 percent voter turnout, according to final results released early Monday.But there is this threat that his supporters are truly fearful of. We KNOW all about it here.
The election left little time for celebrating: Legislative elections are slated for June 10 and 17, and Sarkozy's conservative UMP party needs a majority to keep his mandate for reforms. A win by the left would bring "cohabitation" — an awkward power-sharing with a leftist prime minister — which would put a stop to his plans.
Yes folks. All the French have to do is look HERE. Then they will see the chaos and obstruction that can happen. All they have to do is look at our do nothing Congress we have now. But WE could learn something from THEM. From Socialist Bernard Kouchner. It is something I have been trying to warn the Democrats of for over a year now.Following the defeat, high-ranking Socialist Bernard Kouchner, the former health minister who co-founded Doctors Without Boarders, immediately called for the party to stop courting the far-left and ally the center. "We have to change our formatting, our ways of thinking, on the left," he told TF1.
I bet you the Hillary camp has been watching this election VERY closely. I wonder if now we will see her start to pander more to the moderates and Independents herself. Just like Royal in France, Hillary is set to be America's first female President. Just like Royal, she caters and panders to the LWL {Left Wing Looney fringe} Just like Royal, she will be running against someone more Conservative than she. She does not want to be just like Royal, and lose.Royal would have been France's first female president. Her defeat could throw her party into disarray, with splits between those who say it must remain firm to its leftist traditions and others who want a shift to the political center like socialist parties elsewhere in Europe.
That could very well happen here as well. Should be interesting to watch it all pan out.
Peter
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