No one in France or elsewhere, could realistically summarize what the ultimate outcome will be in the next three months !!!
At present we have a centre-left Government with a comfortable majority. President Hollande wants to stamp his authority on events, but already six months after the elections the "left" which helped him enormously are unhappy. The "Greens" were helped by Hollande to obtain seats in the National Assembly, (17 in fact), they are now going their own way !!! There seem to be "green" riots everywhere recently !!!
As the previous article in this Blog pointed out, President Hollande is being pilloried from all sides, because he has not done what he said he would do in his election manifesto !!! He "murdered" the former President Sarkozy because he, also, had not stuck to and introduced the promises in his election manifesto !!!
All this is only a backcloth, the background, of what is now happenening on the "defeated" right of French politics !!!
The UMP party of defeated former President Sarkozy, is now trying to elect its President (to replace, in fact Sarkozy). There are two heavyweight candidates: Jean-François COPE, the present general secretary of UMP and François FILLON, the former sole, permanent Prime Minister of President Sarkozy.
Both say they will never oppose Sarkozy, if he wants to go for a second term, but both want to position themselves, to be candidates in the next Presidential Election in 2017 !!! What is absolutely sure is that there are also other, young potential candidates in the wings.
At present, Monday 17 00 o'clock, 19 November 2012, the only thing certain is that neither Copé nor Fillon, know who will become the next PRESIDENT of the UMP party. Both, at different moments during last night, said they had won.
At present Politics and politicians in France defy any prognostic or prediction !!!
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