[Paul Woodward]

If 72% of people voted and there are about 50 million people in France who
can vote and Le Pen got about 18% of the vote:

My dodgy mathematics work that out to be 6.5 million people who voted for Le
Pen.

That seems like quite a few to me.  In England we consider we have a major
problem with the National Front and they only got 0.2% of the vote and only
40% of people voted, this makes about 38,000 people.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Fabrice Pabois" <Fabrice.Pabois@ncl.ac.uk>
To: <powderworks@cs.colorado.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Powderworks] NMOC Frenchies are not fascist !!!


> Mathieu,
>
> Thanks for your explanations. I just wanted to add 2 more figures:
> - 28 % of the people didn't vote.
> - 49 % of votes for Lepen are thought to be votes of contestation from
> people fed up with the lack of concern from politicians.
>
> Then again they are just figures and Lepen is on for the second round...
>
> Fabrice
>
> > Mathieu BREVIERE wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > This sunday, an uncredible politic evenement was realised : the leader
> > of french extreme right LEPEN has been qualified for the second hand
> > of presidential election.
> > I just want to explain the context.
> >
> > In France, for this election, each "politic team" puts his candidat to
> > the people's choice.
> > This time, we have got 16 candidats !!! :
> > - the actual president Chirac on the liberal right
> > - the actual prime minister Jospin for socialism
> > - two greenies
> > - christian democrate
> > and three extreme left, two extreme right, two free electrons of big
> > party and others
> >
> > There are two years, the extreme right was composed of a unique party
> > with Lepen, but a dissident has created his party. The result was the
> > disparition of extreme right during two years.
> >
> > Other thing : We were in a cohabitation's area.
> > What is it, a new sexual position !?
> >
> > In fact, we had got a right's president and a left's prime minister.
> > The particularity of our republic is the fact that both of them have
> > got some equivalent power. That is not the case in germany and United
> > Kingdom where the state is represented by a president or a king with
> > small powers, and the government a large power with chancellor or
> > prime minister.
> > The illustrtaion is the fact that we speak of "fifteen's Europe" with
> > fifteen countries but sixteen chairs for two representant of our
> > country : prime minister and president and fourteen others countries.
> >
> > During five years, people couldn't seen the differences between these
> > two future candidats and they have voted for small parties like
> > revolutionnary communist, dissident left's party, etc. for frustration
> > and sanction for the two main parties. And many people haven't voted
> > this famous sunday.
> >
> > The result :
> > chirac : 19.88 %
> > lepen : 16.86 %
> > jospin : 16.18 %
> > and for the left's partries :
> > dissident : 5%, revolutionnary's Communist : 5% and 4%
> > greenies : 6%
> >
> > Second hand the 5th of may with a great score for chirac, I hope !!!
> >
> > Welcome in my country, redneck wonderland which has forgotten years of
> >                       war and fascism in Europe.
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