NEW DEM DAILY: The French Center-Left Melts Down

Peter K. peterk at enteract.com
Mon Apr 29 21:19:16 PDT 2002



>[if only the Froggies had embraced the Third Way, there'd be no LePen
>to worry about!]

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>Not surprisingly, leftist opponents of the "Third Way" movement
>in Europe and elsewhere have argued that the French Socialists
>should have resolved their dilemma by moving not to the center,
>but to the left, pre-empting the Trotskyist protest vote.


>From the many accounts I've read, Jospin and Chirac were virtually
indistinguishable in what they campaigned on. So what, Jospin should have moved to the right of Chirac towards Le Pen?



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