Elections next week

[RebLem]

Probably Sarkozy will be the next president, and he'll
made an alliance with Le Pen. He need his 11%, and
will turn to the right more each day.

No, Sarkozy is the son of Humgarian immigrants.  voting form him was a way of voting for stricter immigration controls without voting for a racist like Le Pen.  It is not racist to say that Jihadist Islam represents a threat to France; on the other hand, the de facto segregation of Muslims which feeds a sense of hopelessness in Muslims, is one of the things which leads to Jihadism in the Muslim community.  If Sarkozy combines a greater confidence in the French tradition and the Western culture of freedom and Enlightment with a new approach to integrating Muslims into French society, we could be on the way to a solution.  Let us see.

Sarkozy does not need Le Pen voters if he can make an alliance with Bayrou.

[MishaK]

No, Sarkozy is the son of Humgarian immigrants.  voting form him was a way of voting for stricter immigration controls without voting for a racist like Le Pen.  It is not racist to say that Jihadist Islam represents a threat to France; on the other hand, the de facto segregation of Muslims which feeds a sense of hopelessness in Muslims, is one of the things which leads to Jihadism in the Muslim community.  If Sarkozy combines a greater confidence in the French tradition and the Western culture of freedom and Enlightment with a new approach to integrating Muslims into French society, we could be on the way to a solution.  Let us see.

Sarkozy does not need Le Pen voters if he can make an alliance with Bayrou.

New approach? You mean his Kärcher method of "cleaning out" the banlieues? Sarkozy does not really inspire confidence for bringing about integration, universally reviled as he is among Muslim and African immigrants since his time as interior minister during the riots.

[Danny]

Sarkozy won.  Let's see what happens.   

[helios]

This is not a Second or Third World country you are talking about, here, but one of the most sophisticated, if not the most sophisticated, on the planet.

Brilliant! 

[Steve]

My vote (if I had one) would certainly have been for Sarkozy!