Look at the difference between mainland france and its territories (at least i believe thats the difference)... pretty interesting!
May-29-2005 21:14
trancaholic
Danish Prophet of Doom
Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Aalborg
I read on a Danish news site, that Chirac said that his government would "draw consequences" from the result. The exact nature of these consequences will be revealed next week.
It would truely by bizarre if he steps down. Then all the people who voted "Non" to defy him, would have succeeded in their stupid approach.
May-29-2005 21:14
josh4
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: New York City
quote:
Chirac's decision to give the public a referendum on the issue was a risky one; had he sent the issue straight to parliament, approval was more likely, CNN's European political editor Robin Oakley said.
cause when he said he wanted a referendum the "yes" side was in a strong lead, and he thought that it would look good to have a referendum. Not a very smart decision imo.
May-29-2005 21:36
TranceGiant
randomly disappoints
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: (Strudel)-City that never sleeps
Chirac himself won't.
The whole debate is about Prime Minister Raffarin. Most likely his time is over. As some smart guy said today: It's sad that such far reaching, highly important decisions are taken hostage by domestic political campaigns. Instead of voting about the actualy content, such elections turn out to be another popularity polls.
Nationalist movements use the current debate to gain political capital, the governments are short-sighted, and in the end huge projects collpase and leave a gigantic damage for years.
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May-29-2005 21:41
trancaholic
Danish Prophet of Doom
Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Aalborg
quote:
Originally posted by josh4
whyd he do that
Because he's a proud psychopath.
May-29-2005 21:42
trancaholic
Danish Prophet of Doom
Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Aalborg
All the Danish "yes"-parties (about 85% of the national parliament) has stated that this will have no influence on the process of ratification in Denmark (referendum in September), and Paul Nyrup Rasmussen, head of the social democrats in Europe, has pronounced this to be "a French problem", so I'm hopeful that we'll all move along without France (and the Netherlands).
May-29-2005 21:45
Yoepus
Neo-condimist
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Ketchup fields, Texas
Well at least the French can be proud of their pollsters.
Their early polls are much more accurate it seems.
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