Ségolène Royal, President.

[elephant]

Bayrou in Matigon ????

why not? he is a man of dialogue, him!

1 ° that would reassure his constituents
2 ° it must be said: "everything except Sarkozy", of course, even there are days when Ségo, she dreams !!!!

[gegyx]

The metro in the countryside:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1uvlk ... e-du-metro

[Christophe]

LePen boosts Royal by asking to abstain for Sarko and Royal

[gegyx]

Yes Christophe
May Day / Good Luck.

Le Pen calls for massive abstention for the second round.At the end of his traditional parade on May 1, the leader of the National Front called on his voters on Wednesday "not to give their votes to Ms. Royal or to Mr. Sarkozy" and to "abstain massively". http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/speciale ... tenir.html

http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/poli ... 988.FR.php

[gegyx]

And pan on the beak! ...

http://www.dailymotion.com/related/1046 ... -sarkozy/1

[gegyx]

+++++ A large free concert at the Ségolène Royal meeting on Tuesday May 1 at the Charléty stadium
click on the new obs on the live video.
http://www.lcpan.fr/presidentielle/videos/direct.asx

[gegyx]

Did you see (hear) the meeting and the speech of Ségolène Royal?
I used the link above. The quality was not there, but the essentials were there. The spectacle, the atmosphere, the emotion, the excitement, and, an immeasurable hope for Sunday.
I was stunned throughout, by the enthusiasm of the participants.
The arrival, the speech (quite long) was grand, pronounced at slow speed. She is always excellent and enduring in debates where she lets go.
Otherwise his "music" is haunting, slow tempo, with strong words that keep coming back, so much so that I wonder if the goal is not rather than to attach to the real meaning of the sentences, but to bewitch the audience with haunting music and hypnotic repetitive words.
In the unconscious, these strong words remain which designate only values, positive things and comfort.

Otherwise, I liked the § "May 68" (synonymous with progress), to mirror Sarko; she explained that the same anxiety, a need to change, a dull revolt was ready to explode, in a new “May 68”; that she had understood it, by taking up an analysis of De Gaulle, and that the best way to effect this change smoothly without disorder, was to trust him.
(Which implies that if it is Sarkosy, the revolution will inevitably break out, with all moods subdued).
It is obvious that the course of the campaign, the staging, the words, the rhythmic intonations, the meeting with Bayrou, the campaign of demonization of Sarko, are perfectly prepared and staged. I even wonder if this perfect unfolding is not orchestrated by a higher authority ... There are a lot of symbols, of synchronicities, which cannot be the work of chance.
This is my analysis.
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Marianne's article:

In Charléty, Royal highlights "harmony and civil peace" against Sarkozy
01/05/2007 22:38

PARIS (AFP) - Ségolène Royal on Tuesday drew a France of "harmony" betting on "civil peace" to reform rather than on "the brutality" of his opponent Nicolas Sarkozy, in front of tens of thousands of supporters, at the stadium Charléty in Paris.

In a symbolic place since it had hosted a giant rally of the left during the events of May 1968, the socialist candidate held a speech of "reconciliation" for the voters of the center, while speaking to the anti-liberal left, five days before the second round of the presidential election.

It was the left in celebration: five hours of non-stop music played by artists symbols of the diversity of France, from Yannick Noah to the slammer Grand Corps Malade, via Cali, Benabar, Renaud and Jacques Higelin.

The audience was assessed by the socialist mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë to more than 60.000 people, 40.000 inside and some 20.000 outside.

In the presence of François Hollande, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Jack Lang and Mr. Delanoë but also of the communist Robert Hue and the number one of the Greens Cécile Duflot, Ségolène Royal, white skirt and white jacket on a red bodice, gave a speech very personal, starting by evoking "a little girl from Lorraine, fourth in a family of eight children".

Without ever naming him, she sent back to the reactionary camp Nicolas Sarkozy, who had given himself up two days earlier at the Palais omnisports de Bercy to an attack in order against "the heirs of May 68".

Claiming to feel the rise in France of "the same form of anger" as in May 1968, she made a point of "protecting civil peace". "I want a France which is reforming, I want civil peace in my country," she insisted, indignantly that in Bercy, the UMP candidate "gave the word + kärcher +" ovation. "The famous one. rupture which is announced, it is purely and simply a Republican divide, but it is not inevitable ", she assured to the cheers of the crowd. She called on "all French people to understand it, to think in silence and to draw all the consequences" on Sunday.

The socialist candidate presented herself as the only one able to avoid "the blockades" which "gave rise, as in May 68, to revolts, demands, strikes". She sought to hold both ends of the chain, the centrist voters on one side, the left on the other.

"We are not gathered on May 1st by chance. This date has a historical meaning. It is the feast of solidarity and the demand for dignity of the working class," said Ms. Royal. She took up the campaign slogans of Olivier Besancenot (LCR): "Life is better than profits", and that of the anti-globalist José Bové: "Another world is possible +". So much for the left.

However, "I have heard the message from voters in the center and Republicans of progress: nothing will happen without a taste for democracy, without a Europe that works and above all without an impartial state," she said.

Making "the choice of harmony", she promised to "reconcile business success and human progress", very consensual terms likely to appeal to a very large electorate. “The ultimate goal of profit must be human progress,” Ms. Royal added, in a very Christian-Democratic register. She also concluded with these words: "Let us take each other's hand, love each other, build together".

[goodeco]

on yahoo news
http://fr.news.yahoo.com/30042007/5/pre ... -bove.html

José Bové with Ségolène Royal to counter Nicolas Sarkozy

PARIS (Reuters) - José Bové explains that he chose to join Ségolène Royal for the second round of the presidential election to counter Nicolas Sarkozy, who according to him embodies "the society of permanent conflict".

During a press briefing at the socialist campaign headquarters, the alter-globalist candidate gave lip service to the strategy of opening up to the center of the candidate of the PS, the PRG and the MRC who gave him a mission on globalization and food sovereignty.

"Today there is a need to bring together a majority of French people (...) What I hear around me today shows me that a majority of French people are sensitive to this need to live together and that Voters, I think, of François Bayrou are as sensitive as others to these themes ", declared José Bové.

"Today, we are faced with a choice, an alternative. Or it is Sarkozy who passes and we know that this man is dangerous for our freedoms, that it is liberalism, the Medef candidate," he said. he continued.

"Faced with this there is a clear choice, the choice of Ségolène Royal. Being here today, I affirm that there is a need for our country to choose: either we are in a society of living together or we is in a society of permanent conflict, of systematic opposition embodied by Nicolas Sarkozy "

"I am saying here that not only do we have to beat Nicolas Sarkozy but that this is not enough. It must be said that in order to beat Nicolas Sarkozy, everyone must go and vote and therefore there must be no abstentionists" , he added.

Noting that he and Ségolène Royal had "not shared the same campaign, José Bové argued:

"We don't have to have identical approaches to everything, but today there are central themes. For me, the fact that Ms. Royal puts this issue of globalization, food sovereignty, North-South relations are very important because it introduces the very important dimension of France's relationship to the world ".

[Christophe]

Still happy for Bové !!

Otherwise here is something else:

Refutations, A film by THOMAS LACOSTE (66 ')

"Sixteen activists and researchers, sixteen sharp eyes on the world that Nicolas Sarkozy is preparing for us. Neither hatred, nor demonization, but the reality of an uninhibited right in the process of gaining power. An implacable deconstruction of Sarkozy rhetoric, to see emergency ... Before it's too late! ".

With the participation of Jeanne Balibar (actress), Monique Chemillier-Gendreau (lawyer), Anne Debrégeas (Sud-Energie Federation), Eric Fassin (sociologist), Hélène Franco (Syndicat de la magistrature), Susan George (economist), Michel Husson (economist), Bruno Julliard (Uunef), Christian Lehmann (doctor), Nacira Guenif-Souilamas (sociologist), Thomas Heams (Convention for the 6th Republic), Richard Moyon (Education Without Borders Network), Thomas Piketty (economist), Emmanuel Terray (ethnologist), Louis-Georges Tin (lecturer, CRAN), Alain Trautmann (Sauvons la Recherche!).

To see (and distribute) here: http://www.lautrecampagne.org/refutations.php

[gegyx]

15 reasons to beat Sarkozy

To see the full version
1- Sarkozy is the continuity of Chirac, Raffarin, Villepin, but worse
We understand that Sarkozy is avoiding like the plague to take on the record of the most reactionary governments that our country has known since Pétain: the Raffarin and Villepin governments.
But how could he do otherwise? For the past five years, he was neither on Mars nor in opposition. He was number two of all these governments, Minister of State, Minister of the Interior but also Minister of Finance (from March 2004 to May 2005). He is also the president of the UMP, which alone has majority in the National Assembly without which none of the right-wing laws could have been voted between 2002 and 2007.
Not only does Sarkozy not want a "break" with what the Right has been doing for five years but he wants, on the contrary, to go even further in the attacks against the wage earners.
2- He wants employees to work more to earn less
The Right has considerably slowed down the increase in the minimum wage for 80% of employees paid at the minimum wage. It has blocked the increase in public service wages. She allowed rents and rental charges to increase by 30% in five years. And contrary to all her claims, she forced employees to work more to earn less.
To achieve this, the Right wanted to force employees to work on Pentecost Monday and, anyway, stole a public holiday. To achieve this, it removed the on-call penalties and a lot of travel time from the actual working time. To achieve this, it increased the legal quota for overtime hours from 130 to 200 hours.
And Sarkozy wants to go even further. He wants to exempt overtime from social contributions and even income tax. The consequence would be to further weaken social protection and make overtime cheaper than hiring. The unemployment of some would then be the counterpart of the overwork of others!
3- The bill would be steep for employees
Sarkozy proposes to introduce a “social VAT”. A 5-point increase in VAT for a household earning 2 euros per month and spending almost all of its monthly salary, that would represent an increase in the cost of living of 000 euros each month.
The privatization of EDF-GDF, desired by Sarkozy, would also have serious repercussions on the purchasing power of employees. In all the countries where gas and electricity have been privatized, tariffs have been multiplied by 2, 3 or 4. Which is logical since private shareholders have only one idea in mind: their dividends.
With Sarkozy, health would cost more and more for employees. Sarkozy and the UMP propose to establish an annual franchise. This means that each year, the first 50 or 100 euros that everyone will spend on treatment. Will not be refunded.
The increase in the price of doctors (23 euros), the decrease in reimbursed care will explode the prices of complementary insurance which would double in a few years.
4- It would prohibit the exercise of the right to strike
It was the closing session of the MEDEF university, on August 31, 2006, that Nicolas Sarkozy had chosen to declare war on the right to strike. How can we be surprised that Sarkozy was received by a “standing ovation” from the bosses gathered at this summer university?
It is no coincidence that his proposals are modeled on the measures taken by Margaret Thatcher in the late 1980s. Since these measures were implemented, strikes have all but disappeared in the UK.
Sarkozy knows full well that he will be able to impose his program (that of the MEDEF) on wage labor only by preventing it from defending itself. The desire of the UMP candidate to prohibit the exercise of the right to strike is therefore also an admission: that of the extremely violent nature of the offensive he is preparing against the wage labor. No employee aware of his interests should give him his voice.
5- He would rewrite the "Labor Code"
On March 7, the Council of Ministers dared to promulgate a new “Labor Code”.
This new code is a step back on 120 years of social history. It potentially contains all the regressions announced by Sarkozy: 3851 modified articles, a redistribution into 8 books, 38 chapters, a reclassification of laws into decrees, from decrees into decrees, the destruction of ten years of jurisprudence, the questioning of the right to strike, labor inspection, working hours, contracts ...
The only "precaution" they have taken is to ensure that this new labor code is not "applied" before next September ... if Sarkozy wins.
6- It would increase mass unemployment
In 5 years, between September 1997 and April 2002, the left had succeeded in reducing mass unemployment. Thanks to 35 hours and youth jobs, also thanks to significant increases in the minimum wage, a million unemployed had found a job.
On the contrary, the right has not reduced unemployment. The unemployment rate was 8,9% in March 2002, it stands today at 8,8%! However, demographics have come to the aid of employment. Baby boomers are reaching retirement age and fewer new generations are entering the labor market. While it was necessary to create nearly 250 jobs to reduce unemployment in 000, it was enough to create 2001 in 50!
Mas la Droite has abolished youth jobs. She refused to replace some of the officials who were retiring. She bypassed the 35 hours by all means. It has considerably slowed down the increase in the minimum wage. It stifled growth.
And Sarkozy wants to go even further in this direction. He says he will not revalue the minimum wage! He wants to make overtime cheaper for employers than hiring, which can only slow down hiring. He only wants to replace one in two civil servants who would retire. He wants retirement to be combined with salary and recognizes, at the same time, that with the Fillon law, pensions will no longer allow you to live. But by allowing this accumulation, it is hundreds of thousands of young people to whom it would bar access to employment.
7- It would generalize precariousness
On January 21, 2007, Sarkozy declared during a meeting with SME bosses that he intended to be inspired by the new employment contract, the “CNE” to create “a single employment contract. "The CNE is progress, we must not touch it" he said, again.
The right affirms that 700 jobs have been created thanks to the CNE. This is false, these 000 so-called job creations are only a "windfall effect": the employees hired in CNE would in any case have been hired in another form: CDI or CDD.
What Sarkozy is proposing is purely and simply the death of the right to dismissal. Not only for a period of two years like the CNE and the CPE but throughout your working life, an employer can dismiss you without cause.
To be dismissable without cause is to no longer be able to defend one's rights, it is no longer being able to organize openly, it is no longer being able to claim payment for overtime, it is no longer being able to "flinch" under penalty to lose his job. To be dismissed without cause is a step back 120 years, in the law, the elementary dignity of employees, it is the return to Germinal, to Zola.
8- He would impose ever lower pensions, always later
The Fillon law against pensions has leveled pay-as-you-go pensions down by aligning public service employees with the 40 years of contributions that the Balladur reform had already imposed in 1993 on private sector employees.
The employers continue to lay off workers over the age of 50, who will therefore not have enough quarters for full retirement. The extension of the contribution period actually means a considerable decrease in the level of pensions in the private sector. No doubt also in the public sector.
Sarkozy does not question the Fillon law. On the contrary, he wants to extend it to special pension schemes. Above all, he wants to implement article 5 of the Fillon law, which makes it possible to impose by simple decree an extension of more than one quarter per year of the contribution period. The 45 annuities advocated by the MEDEF would be fast approaching.
9- It would encourage the assault of additional insurance against Social Security
During his trip to the United States in 2004, Mr. Sarkozy declared, during a banquet: "Here in the USA we have the culture of success, in France when we suffer a failure we receive an allowance". The United States has 45 million people without any social security coverage and it is this model that Sarkozy praised when Douste-Blazy was preparing his law, a veritable infernal machine against compulsory health insurance.
The real causes of the deficit were not taken into account by this law: the cost of drugs, work accidents and occupational diseases chargeable to the general health insurance scheme, the increase in the prices of liberal doctors, the stagnation of employers' social contributions for 20 years.
The public hospital has been the target of all the attacks: the 2007 Hospital Plan programs the control of private clinics over the hospital sector and the sidelining of tens of thousands of “unprofitable” patients. The hospital package has increased to 16 euros per day. A fixed price of 18 euros has been imposed on acts over 90 euros. Doctors' fees have increased considerably.
Today, while Douste-Blazy assured that his law would ensure the balance of health insurance in 2007, the deficit of health insurance amounts to 5,9 billion euros. The current Minister of Health, Xavier Bertrand welcomes this. But as soon as the elections are over, if unfortunately Sarkozy and the Right win, these 5,9 million euros deficit would quickly become an "abysmal deficit". The number of reimbursed treatments would decrease further, deductibles and fixed rates would multiply. Faced with competition from insurance companies, mutuals could not help but raise their rates and would end up selecting their members according to their state of health.
For a large part of the social insured, the dilemma would be terrible: either they could no longer be treated, or they would have to accept the inevitable increase in the prices of their complementary insurance and cut back their other expenses accordingly.
10- Relocate locally by increasing the number of “undocumented” people
Sarkozy considerably worsened the living conditions of immigrants. The duration of presence on French territory (10 years previously) giving the right to legal residence is abolished. Family reunification is subject to salary and housing conditions. The "validity" of the marriage is checked "with regard to their intensity, their seniority ...". Expulsions and administrative detention have been systematized. In addition to the raids (massive arrests), there are arrests at home, in the prefecture (by means of trap summons), around the Restos du cœur and even in front of schools. To reach the 25 annual expulsions decided by Sarkozy.
Sarkozy wants to go even further in the repression and stigmatization of immigrants. He announced that he would vote in July 2007 for a law which would toughen the conditions for family reunification, by obliging, in particular, foreigners to know the French language before entering the country.
Sarkozy's policy has, in reality, two objectives.
Attracting Le Pen voters: pretending to protect a national identity that he is unable to define.
And above all, consolidate a parallel labor market that weighs on the entire labor market. In many sectors (construction, what remains of the clothing industry, agriculture, catering, hotels, personal services, etc.) these undocumented workers weigh heavily on the salary and working conditions of all employees in these sectors. , for the benefit of employers. It is on-site relocation.
11- He wants to introduce even more unfair taxes
Sarkozy is against taxes. It is, in any case, the image he wants to give. When you take a closer look, it is not difficult to see that it is not against taxes in general, but against certain taxes.
He has nothing against VAT, TIP, housing tax. He has nothing against VAT. On the contrary, he proposes to study "without ideological a priori" the principle of a social VAT which would replace employers' social contributions. The VAT is however the most unfair tax which there is since it hits with the same tax rate all consumers, whether poor or rich.
He has nothing against the Internal Tax on Petroleum Products (TIP). The left had made it "floating" so that it would fall when oil prices rise. The Raffarin government, in which Nicolas Sarkozy actively participated, removed this possibility. He has nothing against the housing tax, the basis of which is archaic and which takes no account of the income of taxpayers.
On the other hand, Sarkozy is a staunch opponent of the Income Tax, the Solidarity Tax on Wealth or the Corporate Tax, the taxes that the rich fear the most.
12- He wants to put an end to public services, to discredit and weaken the public service
In 2004, the then Minister of Finance, Nicolas Sarkozy, swore it from the tribune of the National Assembly: the State's share would never fall below 70% of the capital of EDF or GDF! It did not take two years to fully appreciate Sarkozy's words. The right-wing majority, of which he heads the main party, the UMP, passed a new law allowing the merger of the private group Suez and GDF. This merger, if it came to an end, would mean the privatization of GDF since the State would only hold 34,6% of the capital of the merged company.
Sarkozy wants to go even further and proposes to further reduce the State's share in the capital of both EDF and GDF.
Sarkozy uses much of his public interventions to stigmatize officials. He finds these officials so unhelpful that he announces that he will only replace one in two retiring officials. It does not of course specify which civil servant positions it will remove: firefighters, nurses, police officers, magistrates, teachers? However, it would be urgent for it to do so because the non-replacement of one in two civil servants when they retire corresponds to the elimination of 150 jobs over 000 years, including at least 5 to 80 teachers!
13- He wants the penal state to replace the social state
In 2002, helped by an incredible campaign by the main media, the Right was elected on the theme of "security". Five years later, his record is appalling and Sarkozy, Minister of the Interior for more than four years, is primarily responsible for this failure across the board.
What is this country where we arrest a grandfather who comes to pick up his children from school by putting the director in custody because she protects the said children?
It is a country where the social divide is brutal, enormous. It is a country rich in the 100 billion profits earned by companies listed on the Cac 40 and 7 million poor workers! It is a country where social insecurity and mass unemployment are the source of “insecurity”.
And Sarkozy announces that he will go even further in the same direction: to reinforce the vicious circle of violence by responding to all violence with even more violence. In short, replace the social state with the penal state.
14- He wants a presidential, corporatist and communitarian Republic
Sarkozy wants to strengthen the role of the President of the Republic to which would be attached "the tools necessary for the reform of the State". Article 49-3 would be maintained as well as the blocked vote. The accumulation of mandates would continue.
The Machelon report, commissioned by Sarkozy when he was Minister of the Interior proposes to modify article 2 of the law of 1905 "The Republic does not recognize, does not pay, does not subsidize any religion" and to reinstall religion in space public. What Sarkozy did not deprive himself of, insisting on his Christian faith.
Sarkozy's Republic would be corporatist: Parliament would be stripped of the power to vote social laws alone. No social law, in fact, could be passed if it had not been the subject of a prior agreement between the employers and the unions of employees. This would amount to giving MEDEF a right of veto over all social legislation. With such a veto given to the employers, the 40 hours, the paid holidays, the 35 hours, Social Security could never have seen the light of day.
The Republic of Sarkozy would be communitarian: after having installed a French Council of Muslim Worship, he wants to generalize the “positive discrimination” which led him to appoint a Prefect because he was “Muslim”.
15- He wants an ever more liberal European Union
Nicolas Sarkozy has decided to ignore the vote of May 29, 2005 and the massive rejection of liberal Europe by voters in our country.
It is neither hot nor cold that the "no" is won by a large majority. He also decided to consider this vote null and void. He has already announced that he refused to organize a new referendum on the European treaty. He has decided to do without the people whose reliability is less and less certain: he will have a new European treaty ratified by Parliament if he wins on May 6.

Jean-Jacques Chavigné - Gerard Filoche

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