'Steamroller' Sarkozy set for landslide

Source: The Guardian

"In the final seal of approval for President Nicolas Sarkozy from the French people, he appears to have won a crushing victory in today's parliamentary elections. He now has a massive endorsement for an ambitious and controversial programme of reforms.

The latest round of polls gave the right-wing president's party, the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), a historic majority, with more than 65 per cent of the vote, paving the way for a summer of new laws and a potential winter of industrial discontent.

The UMP, the party which Sarkozy led until being elected president in May for a five-year term, now seems likely to have up to 450 of the 577 seats in the national assembly. The total will be boosted by a variety of small centre-right groups who will be parliamentary allies. It is set to be the biggest single parliamentary majority under the 49-year-old constitution of the Fifth Republic..."



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The size of the UMP's victory is shocking.

The neocons in the US would be calling him a pointy headed intellectual with Communist sympathies.

Don't expect his government to be much of a departure from Chirac's government.

but to back off. I do happen to agree with several of his reforms. My main concern is that Sarkozy is a David Duke when it comes to social policy.

But, he'll stealthily allow hard-hitting racist policies against Arab's and Muslims to become law.

Though, many who elected him met him with a "wink, wink, nod, nod" when it came to his racist potential. It's what a majority of his supporters want and it's what they'll get.

Ah, but isn't yet another round in the new wave of "modern" European politics, first Holland, then the U.K., Poland, Belgium and now France.

Europe is not that great. September 11th unveiled the "Old Europe" to the world. That Europe went into Hibernation after WWII. 56 years of "New Europe" and then "Old Europe" reared it's ugly head.

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are begining to right the ship.

in many ways he is to the left of all of our current crop of candidates

He will stay to the left of the US Democratic party because the French do not want to become to economically like the US. Socially, Sarkozy is a bigot!

Most French are bigots, just ask them what they think of any non-French country...

He got his majority, but not his landslide (phew!)