18-Jun-12 World View -- Elections in Greece, Egypt, France

[John]

18-Jun-12 World View -- Elections in Greece, Egypt and France bring major changes

Egypt's Bedouin tribesmen break with Muslim Brotherhood


** 18-Jun-12 World View -- Elections in Greece, Egypt and France bring major changes
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/cgi ... 18#e120618


Contacts:
Greece's conservative party wins election inconclusively
Military takes power in Egypt, as voters boycott election
Egypt's Bedouin tribesmen break with Muslim Brotherhood
France's Socialist President Hollande's party wins big legislative victory


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Greece, Antonis Samaras, New Democracy
Syriza, Alexis Tsipras, Germany, Angela Merkel,
Egypt, Ahmed Shafiq, Mohamed Morsi, Hosni Mubarak,
Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, SCAF, Bedouins,
Muslim Brotherhood, France, François Hollande

[Raynote]

"France's Socialist President Hollande's party wins big legislative victory"

It only means that we'll head towards the edge of the cliff a little faster...
French people, brace yourselves! The landing will be hard, deadly in fact...

[JULLIEN1]

France's parliamentary elections on Sunday gave Socialist Party president François Hollande a big victory.

A big one with the absolute majority (non easy to win in our electoral system) : 290 seats out of 577.

In combination with his ally, the communist Left Front party,

The allies of the Socialist party are in fact the "Left Radical Party" (12 seats) which is a moderate left of center party keen on secularism but against nationalizations and EELV which is the Green Party (17 seats, the biggest performance ever in France for an environmentalist party). The Left Front was not allied with the Socialist Party and in fact was defeated : it had 18 seats in the former legislature, now just 11.

Hollande has already lowered the retirement age from 62 to 60

Only for people who began to work under 18.

Hollande has a free hand to implement his socialist agenda

The Socialist Party has mellowed ideologically when France began her unraveling era in the current generational saeculum. We probably will have gay marriage and legalization of euthanasia but probably not many socialist measures as it was traditionally understood (The Left in France has a long-held habit back to the 1880's preferring our version of the "culture wars" instead of really caring about popular empowerment and workers rights).

Quite surprisingly for someone who usually spoke about all signs of the rising tide of nationalism, xenophobia and racism in countries now beginning or experiencing a new generational crisis, you told nothing about the third first Far Right Representatives in the French National Assembly in more than 20 years (something difficult to achieve in a two-round voting system) nor about the Greek political party Golden Dawn which seems to have won his place on the Greek political system despite its spokesman having beaten two women in a TV show.

[John]

Sorry, Jullien, I can only write about so many things each evening
before I fall asleep in front of my computer. I'm sure I'll be
writing about xenophobia again before long.

As for Hollande's allies, the France 24 article that I was referencing
didn't mention the "Left Radical Party," and seemed to be implying
that the Left Front party was an ally, without explicitly saying so.
I'll try to do better in the future.

John