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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
well i think they voted sarkozy for a reason, or a number of reasons, namely
1) they have a stagnand economy that's losing competitiveness
2) they have a high standard of living but also high unemployment
3) whats her name offered more of the same, government-created jobs, etc-- more "tax and spend".
4) free enterprise has a problem with socialistic france, and a lot of french managers and entrepreneurs go to england or the u..s. to start businesses, which feeds the unemployment cycle and dependence of government funds, but government funds come from the tax payers who are unemployed etc.
5) many french see islam as a threat because france is not a "multicultural" nation-- it's not about race, it's about "being french" and many muslims refuse to adapt. and they think sarkozy might be the answer to that. i dont know.
regardless, you need to think about this, france has a lot of parties represented in their senate and the national assembly, so those 85% of people also elected legislators of all kinds.
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oh i know that, i know they have one of the stronger third party presences of the major countries
outside of the economic factors there is a nationalist sense about Sarkozy, seemingly trying to woo some votes away from Le-Pen with his views on immigration and religion, sort of the way the Demycrats took alot of the Green ideals into their party position to get their votes, even some Republicans are becoming environmentally conscious