Tag Archives: Jacques Chirac
Nicolas Sarkozy’s Republican Party Wins Smaller Majority Than Expected in French House Of Representatives.
New York Times:
Mr. Sarkozy’s party won 314 seats, a loss of 45 members; the Socialists won 185 seats, a gain of 36, according to Interior Ministry figures issued early Monday morning.
Polls had predicted a Republican landslide, and so did the gregarious prediction markets. NewsFutures France (using play money) was the only prediction exchange (betting exchange) [...]
Demise of a Sarko Killer
She was billed as the only one who could steal this election from Nicolas Sarkozy. The media had dubbed her “the queen of the polls”, so towering was her popularity over her socialist rivals for the party’s nomination. She was strikingly beautiful (for a politician), feminine yet tough, motherly yet authoritative, reassuring yet unafraid to [...]
NEXT SUNDAY, THE FRENCH WILL ELECT REPUBLICAN NICOLAS SARKOZY AS THEIR PRESIDENT.
The Economist tells me I should vote for Nicolas Sarkozy. Well… if they really think he’s “the man”…
The French presidential election
France’s chance
Apr 12th 2007
From The Economist print edition
After a quarter-century of drift Nicolas Sarkozy offers the best hope of reform
No French presidential election in 50 years has looked as unpredictable [*] [?? - [...]
BetFair and TradeSports don’t compute French politics.
#1. BetFair still lists all the Socialist presidential candidates (Francois Hollande, Laurent Fabius, Lionel Jospin, Jack Lang, Bernard Kouchner, Dominique Strauss-Kahn), even though ethereal Segolene Royal has (easily) won the Socialist party’s primary, last year. As for the Republican primary, it’s going on this week-end and Michelle Alliot-Marie has given up —so Nicolas Sarkozy is [...]
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