France looks to be sending a conservative avalanche to their parliament in elections being held today:<\/p>\n
Pollster CSA said Sarkozy’s bloc would win 440-470 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly lower house after a second round of voting on June 17. IPSOS Dell pollsters saw the centre-right taking 383-447 seats against 120-170 for the mainstream left.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Francois Fillon, who won his seat outright on Sunday, said voters had given a “beautiful lead” to Sarkozy’s allies, but warned that the job was only half done.<\/p>\n
“Everything will really be decided next Sunday. That is why all the French will have to go and vote. Change is underway,” he said in his Sarthe constituency west of Paris.<\/p>\n
CSA gave the opposition Socialists, in disarray since May’s third straight loss in presidential elections, just 60-90 seats compared to the 149 seats the party won in 2002 elections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
They have their own version of Lori Sturdevant, too!<\/p>\n
Senior Socialists appealed to voters to turn out en masse next week in a bid to stem the conservative “blue tide” that risked submerging the opposition in parliament.<\/p>\n
“Come and vote, come for yourself, come for democracy, come for the Republic, come for France, come for social justice and come to help us reconstruct a new left,” urged Socialist Segolene Royal, who remains popular despite losing out to Sarkozy in the May presidential elections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Maybe we need to start importing conservative politicians from France.<\/p>\n
Yeah, yeah yeah, I know, “conservative” has a bit of a different meaning there than here.\u00a0 So what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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