One more day and we will be able to put down these French elections which have “invaded” KeyboardPolitics. Promised! But being located where we are it has been difficult to avoid reporting on then. After all we have been able to have a front seat, so to speak. Read the rest of this entry »

Election night on Sunday was full of surprises for the French. The first one, the winning of the socialist François Hollande who came ahead of the center-right incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy was the smallest one as it had more or less been predicted; Read the rest of this entry »

There are now just nine days to the first round of the French presidential elections and things are beginning to “heat”. With their different approaches to campaigning the two main candidates are trying to win the electorate. Read the rest of this entry »

Presidential elections in France are just two weeks from Sunday. When the French thought it was really going to be a contest between the incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy and the socialist François Hollande with Marine Le Pen, the candidate from the far-right set to be in third place, things have become more “interesting”. Read the rest of this entry »

It all began this morning when the French President Nicolas Sarkozy launched his new personal Twitter account, hours prior to formally declaring on French TV tonight his intention to run for a second term as president. Read the rest of this entry »

This coming April the first round of the French presidential elections will take place, with the two biggest vote winners going through the last and decisive round in early May. While European elections don’t play as long as American ones nor are they so ubiquitous on television and all media, the French ones this time had been talked about more than usual due to the arrest in new York last May of Dominique Strauss-Kahn who until that moment had been considered as the one who could become the next French president. Read the rest of this entry »

In the middle of all the political disarray in the EU and the financial problems with the euro, we have seen President Sarkozy trying to solve these problems with his German counterpart Angela Merkel. Read the rest of this entry »