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You know what to do... (Score:2)
It really hurts my throat to say this, but we've got to vote Chirac in the second round, and to convince everyone around us that they have to do the same. Unless you're a chiraquian -- and even on the right wing very few people are these days, him being a crook and all that -- it probably hurts, possibly deeply. But it's really got to be an electoral landslide so that we can bury the fascist pig under our votes and tell Chirac at the same time that he wasn't elected by those that support him.
And th
-- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]
Re:You know what to do... (Score:2)
Merely theoretical question, mind you, but one what might relate to the current problems in France: What happens under the French constitution if Chirac or Le Pen is elected, and then assassinated? (Or otherwise suddenly dies.)
Re:You know what to do... (Score:2)
This has come up a bunch of times in many, many discussions recently...
If a candidate dies during the second round runoff, the elections are cancelled and we start all over again (ie, it isn't the third one that becomes second).
If a President dies in exercize (it's happened already) there is a short period of interim governed (I think) by the Prime Minister the purpose of which is to have a new election take place.
In other words there is no vice-president, and yes it's technically a solution. If you know of any suicidal madmen, you'd do 60 million people a big favour (probably more if you take into account the fact that France has some influence abroad).
One reason why this idea came up so often is also because a few weeks before the first round a mad guy stood up during a town hall meeting (they're always open to citizens) and shot quite a few people before killing himself the next day. His diary reveals that he felt like he was nothing, and wanted to become famous, to "live once through their deaths". The general feeling is that he could have picked much better targets...
-- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]
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Re:You know what to do... (Score:2)
Far be it for me to advocate the assassination of a foreign "leader" (to do that, I'd have to be in the US State Department) -- but, since when does one have to be a madman to put someone out of the country's misery?
By the way, is there any provision for "recall elections" under the French constitution? I.e., a petition forcing a re-vote.
Re:You know what to do... (Score:2)
Well, you might not need to be a madman, but you'd at least need to be suicidal :-) Chirac is still President while he's candidate, and thus under presidential protection (read: real elite stuff). Le Pen has his own squad (in addition to the cops provided for candidate security) called the DPS. Those guys are almost, but not quite, illegal. Not long ago several of them were arrested because they had been hired by "someone" to "someone else" to commit putshes in several African nations. The FN was never f
-- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]
Re:You know what to do... (Score:1)
I think it's the president of the Senate.