French politics today

Category: 100 Day Countdown

  • Day 100: 500 signatures

    (3 minutes read) 24 April. France’s Presidential Election. The run-off between the two candidates who win most first round votes on 10 April. Today it’s 100 days until 24 April. Emmanuel Macron’s place in that Election run-off appears, for now, near-guaranteed. All he has to do is identify the best moment (and the best medium)…

  • Day 97 – Complaints … and a self-serving whine of pathetic self-justification.

    Complaints, I’ve had a few; But then again, too few to mention. [Still. A couple of non-FAQs deserve a response.] Dramatis personae Why such a long cast-list? It’s a consequence of a Presidential system in a near-endlessly changing political Party system with constant changes of name, and sometimes politics too. Name-changing is by no means confined…