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The Trump Effect - Draining the socialist swamp on both sides of the Atlantic.
PARIS — President François Hollande stunned France on Thursday when he announced that he would not run for a second term in next year’s presidential election.
In a televised address from the Élysée Palace, Mr. Hollande said that he was “aware of the risks” of a candidacy that would not “rally” enough people to it.
“I have thus decided not to be a candidate in the presidential elections,” Mr. Hollande said.
Mr. Hollande, a Socialist, ended weeks of speculation about his intentions to participate in a re-election bid that few observers thought he could win. He has had some of the worst approval ratings for a president in modern French history.
“As a Socialist, because that is my life’s commitment, I cannot accept, I cannot come to terms with the dispersion of the left, with its splitting up,” Mr. Hollande said in a somber statement. “Because that would remove all hope of winning in the face of conservatism and, worse yet, of extremism.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/w...ays-he-will-not-run-for-re-election.html?_r=0
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One Euro-weenie down.
PARIS — President François Hollande stunned France on Thursday when he announced that he would not run for a second term in next year’s presidential election.
In a televised address from the Élysée Palace, Mr. Hollande said that he was “aware of the risks” of a candidacy that would not “rally” enough people to it.
“I have thus decided not to be a candidate in the presidential elections,” Mr. Hollande said.
Mr. Hollande, a Socialist, ended weeks of speculation about his intentions to participate in a re-election bid that few observers thought he could win. He has had some of the worst approval ratings for a president in modern French history.
“As a Socialist, because that is my life’s commitment, I cannot accept, I cannot come to terms with the dispersion of the left, with its splitting up,” Mr. Hollande said in a somber statement. “Because that would remove all hope of winning in the face of conservatism and, worse yet, of extremism.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/w...ays-he-will-not-run-for-re-election.html?_r=0
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One Euro-weenie down.
