On 21 févr. 07, at 17:34, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> On 2/21/07, Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion at mx6.tiki.ne.jp> wrote:
>> From the weekly Marianne.
>> JC
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> Ségolène, le retour
>>> par Joseph Mace-Scaron, directeur adjoint de la rédaction de
>>> Marianne.
> <snip>
>>> Education, emploi, formation…la politique en faveur des jeunes
>>> est sa
>>> priorité absolue et donne une cohérence à l'ensemble de son pacte.
>>> Etait-ce la « maman » qui parlait ou la politique ? Toujours est-il
>>> qu'il est clair que dans le projet ségoléniste la question de la
>>> fracture générationnelle a pris le pas sur celle de la fracture
>>> sociale.
>
> But Royal's youth policy that emerges from her presidential pact is in
> large part about how to control the youth:
> <http://www.desirsdavenir.org/index.php?c=dossier&id=867&dossier=13>.
My understanding is that she want to work on preventing delinquency first and then on keeping minor delinquents _out_ or the prison system considering that prisons are recognized as not providing solutions to delinquency and and criminality.
The "control" you talk about is control of delinquency and is very well balanced by her investment on education/vocational training _and_ equal chances for employment.
> Of course, Royal's youth policy is preferable to Sarkozy's, and so is
> her immigration policy (which also has large implications for youth
> policy), but she still refuses to pledge to work to legalize most
> undocumented immigrants (cf.
> <http://www.desirsdavenir.org/index.php?c=actualites&actu=832> and
> <http://www.desirsdavenir.org/index.php?c=dossier&id=870&dossier=13>).
> Note that she sounds far less clearly in favor of large-scale
> regularization than did Laurent Fabius (cf.
> <http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/france/0,,3298415,00.html>), whom she
> defeated in the primary (I gather that new members Royal brought into
> the SP are from the fickle center, not from the newly politicized
> among the socially excluded).
I don't agree with that. The first link you quote has one line (the second paragraph) where she says she does not agree with global regularization, but _all_ the following items practically cancel that stance. I think this page has more to be read in the context of the election. Everything she proposes are technical measures that ensure the greatest number of irregular stayers are treaded the fairest possible.
> 98- Instituer un visa permettant des aller-retour multiples sur
> plusieurs années, afin que les migrations s’adaptent aux besoins
> réels du marché du travail.
>
> 99- Rétablir la règle des 10 ans comme critère de régularisation.
>
> 100- Régulariser les sans papiers à partir de critères fondés sur
> la durée de présence en France, la scolarisation des enfants et la
> possession ou la promesse d’un contrat de travail.
I don't know where the other members are from, but I don't consider myself to be from the fickle center. But that, or course, depends on where one stands.
> In the end, I'm afraid she would come across as too left for
> center-right voters she has been wooing all along and too right for
> far-left voters she sought to win back by the economic promises in the
> pact.
No because she speaks a lot of common sense. I think most of her discourse can be objectively seen as more left than anything the PS as _actually_ done since 81. As for the few measures that the media pick to create their headlines (what you mention regarding youth "control") it is mostly taken out of context. In this specific case it is not about he youth but about delinquency _and_ it comes with a huge education package that is made to reduce the need for such "control".
JC