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 »
Tuesday January 10th, 2012 20:16 French footballer wants to run for president
Wednesday December 14th, 2011 12:55 Sarkozy’s new rival for the Presidency
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 »
Monday October 17th, 2011 17:46 François Hollande will run against Nicolas Sarkozy
In the second round of the Socialist primary elections wich took place yesterday the voters selected François Hollande. Read the rest of this entry »
Friday October 7th, 2011 15:29 French to choose the socialist challenger to beat Sarkozy
This coming Sunday the French Socialist party will hold a rare nationwide primary -the second time they hold a primary as the party’s leadership used to choose its own candidate- to decide who will challenge President Nicolas Sarkozy in the coming spring elections. Read the rest of this entry »
Wednesday September 28th, 2011 18:29 Sarkozy’s party lost the Senate
With national elections looming in just over half a year, France held indirect elections last Sunday to choose the senators. The results were not very good for Sarkozy’s party: the left wrested the Senate from the right. Read the rest of this entry »
Wednesday August 31st, 2011 16:43 The ever interesting French politicians
The French presidential election will take place on 22 April with a run-off on 6 May were it to be necessary. As in the US there are two main parties contending, in the French case the Socialists and the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP ). Read the rest of this entry »
Thursday June 30th, 2011 16:01 After 547 days French journalists are free!
If many French were proud of having Christine Lagarde chosen as head of the IMF, today they are feeling specially happy and relieved after Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier, the two French television journalists held hostage in Afghanistan since December 2009, were freed unhurt. Read the rest of this entry »
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