That's a huge gambit my friend. If it didn't work, that would mean Le Pen would be the next French President.
Anyway, I dont think the French are going to follow your suggestion.
Thomas
--- Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
> The French presidential election's first round today
> produced
> a catastrophic result for the traditional parties of
> the Left.
> Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin got fewer than 16%
> of the
> vote, 1.5 points less than the fascistic nationalist
> Jean-Marie
> Le Pen and 4 points behind Chirac. Eliminated from
> the May 5
> runoff ballot (only the top two from the first round
> stay on
> the ballot), Jospin announced his withdrawal from
> political life.
> The French Communist Party's leader, Robert Hue, got
> a
> minuscule 3.5%, a fitting reward for his consistent
> support
> for Jospin's centrist policies throughout the
> five-year rule
> of the "Gauche Plurielle" cabinet. In contrast, the
> three
> Trotskyist candidates got more than 11% of the
> vote-about
> 6.5% for Arlette Laguiller (Lutte Ouvrière), 4.5%
> for Olivier
> Bésancenot (Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire) and
> 0.5%
> for Daniel Gluckstein (Parti des Travailleurs). The
> other two
> major leftist candidates, Noel Mamere (Verts) and
> Jean-Pierre
> Chévenement (Mouvement des Citoyens) each got
> slightly
> more than 5%, while Christiane Taubira (Radicaux de
> Gauche)
> less than 2%.
>
> The lesson of this electoral disaster is clear--the
> immediate need
> for the broadest United Front of the Left on the
> basis of a militant,
> aggressive program. There must be no rallying
> behind Chirac
> "to block Le Pen." That would be like supporting
> Hindenburg
> "to block Hitler." The alternative is union behind
> a write-in
> candidate for the second round, whether or not
> French electoral
> law permits such votes to be counted. The
> indicated, indeed the
> only thinkable, candidate is José Bové, who is not
> only a principled,
> militant, totally independent leftist, but also, and
> by far, the
> most popular political figure in France. Bové might
> well win a
> majority on May 5, and in any case would be
> positioned to
> lead a united Left to victory over the discredited
> Chiraquiens
> in the June parliamentary elections and thus force
> the
> resignation of Chirac (whatever happens, Le Pen will
> certainly
> not be elected on May 5).
>
> But there is no time at all for delay. The French
> Left must pick
> itself up off the floor and get back in the ring
> within the next
> two or three days. Victory is more than possible,
> but not if
> *anyone's* sectarian posing gets in the way.
>
> Shane Mage
>
> "Thunderbolt steers all things."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
===== "The tradition of all the dead generations
weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living"
-Karl Marx
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