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Norman Bates

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Location: Paris, France

Fuck yesss!

Kiki

What does he have to do with the Manic Street Preachers anyway. Nicky Wire will say he is a socialist and those are the people coming in (to my best knowledge). Were you simply using 'Sarkozy' as a derogatory term? Neutral

Norman Bates

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Age: 51
Location: Paris, France

an_outlaw wrote:

What does he have to do with the Manic Street Preachers anyway.

He's even worse.

Didn't understand the other question.

Kiki

Norman Bates wrote:

He's even worse.

Didn't understand the other question.

What I am saying is politically they have nothing to do with each other. I was wondering if you used his name rather than using derogatory words to get your point across before.

Norman Bates

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Age: 51
Location: Paris, France

an_outlaw wrote:

What I am saying is politically they have nothing to do with each other. I was wondering if you used his name rather than using derogatory words to get your point across before.

I think they have a lot in common politically. For one thing, they both condone the capitalist system. I used Sarkozy's name because, although I'm not satisfied with the 'socialist' party winning this, I think pretty much everything (except the National Front) was better than 5 more years of Sarkozy. And I'm happy he lost. I don't think we'll all live much better - but just a little better will do for today.

Hayden

an_outlaw wrote:

What I am saying is politically they have nothing to do with each other. I was wondering if you used his name rather than using derogatory words to get your point across before.

What?

Was he a bad leader? Think

I've never looked into it much. Glad that the country is happy though.
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Error Finn

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The incumbent president is always hard to beat. Term of the President is in France for five years, does not it had seven years before?
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HigherThanTheSun

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Not that it's my place to say, but I fucking hated Sarkozy. The more unpopular and desperate he got the more right wing and conservative he became. Pretty scary how the NF got around 20% of the first round though, I suppose it was those voters Sarkozy was trying to attract. Anything but Sarkozy is fine with me even though as I say, it's none of my business.

Interesting times ahead, I wonder how Hollande will get on with Merkel?
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Norman Bates

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Age: 51
Location: Paris, France

Error Finn wrote:

Term of the President is in France for five years, does not it had seven years before?

Yes it used to be seven years, the Chirac government changed that in 2000. So Chirac, who was first elected in 1995, was the president for 12 years (7+5). Then Sarkozy five years. The idea behind the change was to synchronize the presidential and general elections, so that the general elections (one month after the presidential) are now supposed to confirm the presidential election, and allow the government a majority in Parliament to support its policy.

Norman Bates

Gender: Male
Age: 51
Location: Paris, France

HigherThanTheSun wrote:

Not that it's my place to say, but I fucking hated Sarkozy. The more unpopular and desperate he got the more right wing and conservative he became. Pretty scary how the NF got around 20% of the first round though, I suppose it was those voters Sarkozy was trying to attract.

Absolutely. The end of campaign was horrid. Sarkozy was chasing the NF's 18% in every way he could, more specifically trying to blame the French Muslims and immigrants in general for the troubles the country's in. That's what decided me to vote against him in the end, because I originally didn't want to vote in the second round, as I didn't want to support Hollande (I generally vote for the anti-capitalist left wing, and Hollande is not left-wing enough for my convictions - but as you said, in the end it was more "anything but him again" thing).