Re: French Candidates

   Two side notes. J.P. Chevemement  was in the 70's the leader of a  current 
in
the SP which was considered, "left  nationalist." Doug Ireland in In  These
Times, http://www.inthesetimes.com ,  April 15th issue, in reply to a  letter 
to
the editor said this, "Chevement's  presidential candidacy, as distinct  from 
the
MDC (Citizen's Movement, M.P.) has  been marked by a significant drift  to the
right on his part that has been  widely commented on in the French  press. He's
also been allied with a host of  figures including the monarchist,  right-wing,
anti-Semitic Catholics of the Action  Francaise, former supporters of the
immigrant-baiting, ex-conservative  Interior Minister Charles Pasqua,  refugees
from the untra-conservative RPF, the  right-wing Pierre Poujade and more.  In
Chevement's presidential coalition,  which has a seperate structure, the  MDC 
is
only one, rather small component."
   Magret, was the candidate of the  split from the National Front a few  yrs.
ago.
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4/23/02 1:02:53 AM, Irene Heinstein <IreneTH@cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:

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4/23/02 4:57:32 PM, jeay <Anne-Marie.Jeay@univ-nancy2.fr> wrote:

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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 newspapers?
>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
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> 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 etc? 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.
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>"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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