The Presidential Election in France is now less than five months away. Candidates are becoming more lively and pointedly attack others. This is normal, but sometimes special situations occur.
The Socialists
They finally elected Francois Holland as their official candidate for the French Presidential elections next April and May 2012. There seem to be hidden problems which for once this year, do not concern DSK.
Montebourg was eliminated as a candidate; Holland was finally chosen in the "run off" against Martine AUBRY, who remains as secretary of the Socialist Party. Montebourg however has put the cat among the pidgeons by implying that Socialist MP's in the Calais area were implicated in Financial Corruption and because he did not exclude Jack Lang, a former minister from his remarks.
This comes at a delicate moment when all Socialists ideally want to attack President Sarkosy. Francois Holland himself appears to be going through a period of "self doubt" if one judges him by his "hesitent impacts" on television.
The Presidential Ruling Right
Sarkozy is to be seen everywhere each time he breathes !!! Whether it is as joint leader with Angela Merkel in Brussels in EU Treaty Talks, or on television making pronoucements on current events in the EU or EUROZONE, he also can be seen all over France visiting towns on what can only be described as election trail publicity. He wants to be seen as being in contact with the people, in fact the electors !!!
President Sarkozy has not yet announced his intention to stand for re-election as President. However many who would like to stand are watching closely !!! One in fact has jumped the gun. He is Dominique de Villepin, a former Prime Minister under President Jcques Chirac and who in fact has a bone to pick with Sarkozy after their legal battles !!!
There are other "heavyweights" who are also monitoring the situation !!!
Other parties
The "GREENS" are ploughing on, as is Francois Bayrou who has already lost two Presidential elections. He wants to place himself as a center candidate between the Socialists and the government. There are other small candidates who are still searching for the 500 signatures from mayors which all candidates must obtain.
The more candidates there are, the more problems will be created for the leading candidates to attain one of the two final Run-off places. All small candidates always get a small percentage of the total votes and these votes will not go to big heavyweights !!!
This could, as many candidates fear, let in the National Front Candidate, Marine Le Pen. That is what happened in 2002, but her father lost to Jacques Chirac, who became President thanks to massive votes from the Socialists.
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