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Riots all over France after right-winged Sarkozy elected for president

France. Riots in all the cities after right-winged Sarkozy was elected for president yesterday. Police fired teargas in the crowds. Railway stations are under high surveillance in case gangs of youths travel to disrupt victory festivities. Alone in Paris and its suburbs about 3000 police were deployed.
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The trouble followed news that Sarkozy - a right-wing Conservative - is thought to have beaten socialist Segolene Royal by six points to replace Jacques Chirac. Sarkozy - who in his victory speech vowed to represent all of France - said: "The French people have chosen change. They have decided to break with the ideas and habits of the past. I will rehabilitate work, authority, morality, respect, merit. I will restore honour to the nation and national identity - I will bring French pride back to the French people." In a second speech to massed crowds, he said: "France has given me everything and the time has come for me to give back everything it has given." Sarkozy, who has promised 100 days of action when he takes control, added that America could "count on our friendship" but that it must take the lead on climate change.

Initial exit polls revealed the reform-minded victor won 53% of the vote. Although unofficial, the exit polls are usually accurate. Ms Royal, addressing her faithful supporters in Paris after conceding defeat, said she had given "all her strength" during the campaign. She added: "I would like to thank the 17 million people who voted for me and I express disappointment but I would like to say to them that something has been started that will not stop." Sky's Foreign Affairs editor, Tim Marshall, said Sarkozy is known as 'Thatcher with trousers', after former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher. He added: "He'll think he's got a mandate to change this country."

Voter turnout was 85%, the highest level in 33 years.

Mr Sarkozy, 52, the son of a Hungarian immigrant who heads the ruling Union for a Popular Movement, was seen as the clear frontrunner. The latter stages of the campaign had been marked by a bitter war of words between the two. On Friday, Ms Royal - who would have been the country's first woman president - warned of "violence and brutalities triggered across the country" if he wins. She was highlighting fears that a victory by him could spark unrest in the poor high-immigration neighbourhoods that were the scene of riots in 2005. Mr Sarkozy, who was Interior Minister at the time, is a hate figure for many young people of black and Arab origin. He has also been vilified as a hard-right authoritarian by many on the left.

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PHOTOS of events here:
 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070506160144512
le nutter
Homepage:  http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070506160144512

pic 07.May.2007 09:38

le nutter

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police hunting rioters in the centre of Paris
police hunting rioters in the centre of Paris

This has all the signs of a fixed election 07.May.2007 10:43

Jody Paulson

I admit I haven't been keeping up with French politics, but this is just ridiculous. 85% turnout, and they voted for "Margaret Thatcher with trousers???" As usual, American media is hardly touching the riots. This from CNN.com:
 http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/07/france.election/index.html

"In a surprising turn of events, 46 percent of blue-collar workers -- traditionally leftist voters -- chose Sarkozy, according to an Ipsos/Dell poll, an AP report said.

"Forty-four percent of people of modest means voted for him, while 32 percent of people who usually vote for the Greens and 14 percent who normally support the far-left cast ballots for Sarkozy. The poll surveyed 3,609 voters and has a margin of error of about 2 percent.
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"During the 2005 Paris riots, Sarkozy inflamed immigrant communities with French-born children living in impoverished suburban housing projects as 'scum.'"

"Surprisingly, Sarkozy took 43 percent of the votes in the Seine-Saint-Denis region north of Paris, the epicenter of the 2005 rioting, an area with a large immigrant population and high unemployment, an AP report said."

Expect to hear more about this in weeks to come. The French know how riot and stage national strikes.

ES&S vote fraud supported by Sarkozy: no way he won, numbers missing 07.May.2007 10:55

fraud French President

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As a further indication that Sarkozy's neo-con media friends, especially those at Le Figaro, are skewing the opinion polls, Sarkozy is still running ahead of Royal although a clear majority of centrist candidate Francois Bayrou's supporters are favoring Royal in the May 6 run-off and far right-wing candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen has urged his supporters to abstain in the run-off. Bayrou said that he will not vote for Sarkozy. The real political math of French Left + majority of Bayrou supporters and majority abstentions by Le Pean supporters equals no significant net gain for Sarkozy in the second round and should reflect a sizeable jump in the numbers for Royal. As with the U.S. and Mexican presidential elections, the polls are being artificially fixed to reflect the upcoming skewed exit polls, a major component of the neo-cons' main contrivance to maintain political control -- "election engineering."


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May 3, 2007 -- French Socialist Party presidential candidate Segolene Royal dealt right-wing candidate Nicolas Sarkozy a series of tough political attacks in last night's televised debate. Royal accused Sarkozy of being immoral in his policies toward the weakest members of French society, particularly handicapped school children. Royal said Sarkozy wants to dismantle France's public education system. As a further indication that Sarkozy's neo-con media friends, especially those at Le Figaro, are skewing the opinion polls, Sarkozy is still running ahead of Royal although a clear majority of centrist candidate Francois Bayrou's supporters are favoring Royal in the May 6 run-off and far right-wing candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen has urged his supporters to abstain in the run-off. Bayrou said that he will not vote for Sarkozy. The real political math of French Left + majority of Bayrou supporters and majority abstentions by Le Pean supporters equals no significant net gain for Sarkozy in the second round and should reflect a sizeable jump in the numbers for Royal. As with the U.S. and Mexican presidential elections, the polls are being artificially fixed to reflect the upcoming skewed exit polls, a major component of the neo-cons' main contrivance to maintain political control -- "election engineering."

IPSOS, the Paris-based marketing firm that sits at the core of most reported French presidential election polls, including those of the Associated Press, owns some 40 market research and opinion companies around the world, including the United Kingdom's MORI. It has a vested interest in the election of the extreme pro-business Sarkozy.



May 7, 2007 -- Nicolas Sarkozy (whom are French intelligence sources have referred to a the "little French Hitler") will govern France with the help of two Silvio Berlusconi- and Rupert Murdoch-like billionaire neo-con French media moguls, Martin Bouygues and Arnaud Lagardere. Bouygues owns the TF1 television channel, which can be expected to act as Sarkozy's own version of the U.S. Republican Party's Fox News Channel. Lagardere's media group owns the Europe 1 radio network, Paris Match, several French regional newspapers, and is a major stakeholder in the French television network Canal+. Sarkozy is known to censor any news reports that are unfavorable to him and pressure publishers and editors to fire wayward journalists. With much of the French media in his pocket, expect the Franco-Hungarian Sarkozy to institute a new era of Janos Kadarist-style censorship in his nation.

The French election, from the start, has been plagued by election fraud -- bogus polling data, false exit polls, and electronic voting machine and machine counting irregularities were hallmarks of the first presidential election round. ES&S's I-Votronic machines were used in both elections across France. Only Sarkozy's party was supportive of the machines, with all the other political parties calling for a moratorium on their use. Turnout in the French election was 85 percent. With large turnouts historically favoring the left in France, the exit polling and actual polling were at odds with the turnout -- an indication of massive election fraud.

Similar polling irregularities were experienced in recent elections in Scotland, Wales, and England. In Scotland, 100,000 ballots, thought to mostly be cast for the pro-independence Scottish National Party, were declared "spoiled" in Scotland's election. That "glitch" cost the Scottish Nationalists a larger majority in the Scottish Parliament. Irregularities in Wales and England similarly affected larger margins for Welsh and Cornish nationalists. As the Bretons and Corsicans will soon discover with Sarkozy, regional nationalism is anathema to the globalist neo-con agenda, particularly the international bankers who want strong centralized control and minimal devolution of power to local and regional governments.

The electoral malfeasance of neo-cons in manipulating elections in France, Britain, Canada, the United States, Italy, Australia, Peru, Costa Rica, Mexico, and other countries will remain a problem until the people, acting through the power of progressive, anti-globalist, and anti-capitalist governments, seize control, via whatever means necessary, of the media, the voting and vote counting process, and the opinion polling mechanisms.

 http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

revolution 07.May.2007 13:20

roscoe

Another U.S. puppet dancing on Washinton's strings.
This is how ALL governments work.

Government elections....means the masses are merely going through the
motions.......governments are NOT by the people, of the people, and for
the people.

barricades are built in Nantes 07.May.2007 14:00

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Fortress America 07.May.2007 21:45

Dr Know

The New World Order on the move. I used to think Europe was a stronger bastion of democracy, but it's quite scarey how quickly the EU has taken over and revealed its true colors. For example, EU law can arbitrarily be imposed over national laws of member nations and if you get to an EU court, you don't have a right to a jury trial. At least France is smart enough to realize it's been had.

The same design is being planned for the North American Union, with the catalyst being the collapse of the US Dollar, mass unemployment and gang warfare in the cities (go to LA and read about the black v Mexican gang wars that are suddenly worse than the crack wars of the 80s). Then we're supposed to be so weary of it that we Americans welcome UN soldiers patrolling our streets (the fact that American soldiers are being poisoned, demoralized, and slaughtered in Iraq is part of the plan to weaken the US), welcome the Amero dollar, etc.

The fact is that whistleblowers have been warning about the New World Order plan for decades, but now things are falling almost exactly into the places that were foretold years ago.

It's about time 08.May.2007 00:39

(A)

I can't wait for the New World Order. Big Brother will step out from behind the screen, civilization will fall apart at the seams, and people can begin to manifest their dreams. We need to do whatever it takes as long as it takes so that when this shit does hit the fan, the masses will be ripe for true physical, emotional and spiritual revolution.

l’humanité 08.May.2007 06:10

l'internationale

l'humanité ne sera heureuse que le jour où le dernier sarko aura été pendu avec les tripes du dernier le pen...

humanity will not be happy until the day when the last sarkozy is hanged with the intestines of the last le pen.

this has nothing to do with elections being "fair" or "rigged." it has everything to do with the fact that people are free because they are a free people, or are not free and content to be slaves again.

the 2nd night of rioting: 08.May.2007 07:48

y


mmm yes, the U.S. marines will flee before the blue helmets 10.May.2007 02:03

there are secret UN bases ... in my butt

The UN is America's puppet, not the other way around. You black helicopter people wanna work on 9/11 or something, go ahead, but don't bother trying to analyze geopolitics, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.