[lbo-talk] Socialists Back Woman in Race to Lead France

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 11/19/06, Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion at mx6.tiki.ne.jp> wrote:
> Considering the choice members had: Royal, Strauss-Kahn or Fabius, I
> wonder if we are not better-off with her.

True, it's all relative. . . .


> After all, a president is
> not a prime minister in France, and to answer Yoshie, Royal seems to
> stand way to the left of Blair.

That's because the French stand way to the left of the British!  Even
Gaullists are to the left of Labourites.
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Yoshie
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