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French Candidates by jeay 24 April 2002 00:13 UTC |
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I made this picture of "our" political world for my students, you could be interested to read something different of what is in newspapersŠ Candidates are ranked from right wing to left wing Informations are : Name - Party - % - religion - origin or historical leader - main values from their official leaflets - European politics EXCUSE ME IN A MAIL BODY IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE TO DRAW A TABLE Megret - 2,2% - no religious references - FN and Le Pen - xenophobia, security, European Union no Le Pen - 16,86% - Catholic nationalism - in the tradition of older right wing movements such as "Action Française" etc...., "different people in different countries" that means territory linked to ethnicity, France to the French, EU no Boutin- 1,2% - Catholic fundamentalism - UDF dissidence - anti abortion, anti gay, anti differences , anti anything that looks different and for helping the poor, the working people, the family and the fatherland, EU yes Madelin - 3.9 % - Catholic libéralism - "Droite Libérale" , right wing and economic liberalism ( a kind of Bush ideology) - capital, business, global economy, liberalism, anti welfare state, EU yes Bayrou - 6,9% - Social Catholicism - in the UDF - e.g. Giscard - camp. A member of the classical make up of the French "legitimate" right- family, morality, work, charity and security, little bit of ecology (Sustainable Development), EU yes Saint Josse - 3,9% - Traditional Catholic - CPNT that means Hunting, Fishing, Nature and Tradition, a movement based on hunters, fishermen, nature fetishism and tradition, somewhat similar to a combination NRA-Sierra Club- new as a political party - values to live in your own village, welfare state and traditional behaviors, EU no Lepage - 1,7%- Brittany catholicism social and progressit- from RPR - Agenda 21, EU yes [a social and left-leaning catholic take on RPR, Chirac's party (sic)] Chirac - 19,88% - "Light" Catholicism and other religious "ideas" - historical leader De Gaulle - France, nation, global economy, security and power, EU yes Jospin - 16,18% - Protestant (all of his friends and goverment team) - PS and F Mitterand - akin to Tony Blair , security, serious work etcŠ His first words were : "my programm is not socialist, it is modern", his value is an unexplained modernism, EU yes Chevénement - 5,4% - Protestant and Freemasons - "dissidents du PS" - France, national sovereignity, Republic, security, defense, a bit of ecology - UE no Mamère - 5,2% - Protestant and Freemasons- green party - against nuclear energy, against cars and pollution, that is all their ecological programm, EU yes Taubira - 2,32% - laics - Parti Radical - Mendes France - Laicity, Republic, respect, equality Hue - 3,5% - PC Communist party - no comments evrybody knows their origins and values unchanged still 1960, EU yes Laguiller - 5,72%- LO Lutte Ouvrière, soft trotkistes [Trotskyst]- this party was settled by Trotsky himself -workers, workers, workers, EU waffling Gluckstein - 0,47% - PT Parti des Travailleurs - populism as ideas, elitism as leadership, a welfare state for workers, young and poors, anti state, EU no comment Besancenot - 4,25% - LCR Ligue Communiste Révolutionaire , hard Trotskyst, and Alain Krivine, seventies "gauchistes" - welfare state for the young, retirement system, poors, and employment, against profit, EU no comment. "César demandait à rétablir la royauté ; les Romains s'effarouchent : mais ils lui accordent, sous le nom d'empereur, le pouvoir suprême qu'ils lui avaient refusé sous celui du roi." (Jean Paul Marat, Les chaînes de l'esclavage, 1774, p 141)
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