FRANCE was voting yesterday in elections which could crown Francois Hollande as its first Socialist president in nearly two decades, marking a leftward shift at the heart of Europe and making Nicolas Sarkozy the region's 11th leader to be toppled by the economic crisis. Buoyed by a tide of ...
opinion poll, 81 percent of the French cited unemployment as the single most important problem facing their country."Unemployment has been high on the list for a long time, but the percentage citing it first keeps going up," says Didier Witkowski, a political analyst with the Sofres polling ...
Opinion polls continually put Fabius far ahead of both Mitterrand and the Socialist Party in popularity. In April last year, the respected Sofres polling organization reported that 59% of the French people had confidence in their premier. Advertisement That was his high point, though; the slide b...
By 2004, the so-called ‘parity’ law had been applied to a full cycle of French elections. The Presidential elections of 2007, which fielded a w
Nearly 47 million voters are expected to cast their ballots on Sunday in 66,546 polling stations in the French mainland, where final preparation work is being carried out on Saturday. Opinion polls indicate that pro-European Union (EU) centrist Emmanuel Macron is on course to become the country...
This rate is lower than that of the first round of 2012 legislative elections when the then-turnout stood at 21.06 percent. According to Jean-Marie Cann, director of political studies at Elabe opinion research institute, the turnout was not a surprise as French voters tend to show less inte...
The biggest deterrent for China coming across the strait in my opinion, is economic deterrence. And the people of Taiwan feel the same way. President Tsai's impressive. She quoted Margaret Thatcher, she quoted Winston Churchill. She's in sync with the Taiwanese ...
Quebec’s relation to the rest of Canada. In 1968, 9 percent of Quebec citizens favored independence of some form, while 91 percent were either against it or on the fence. Lawrence LeDuc, “Canadian Attitudes toward Quebec Independence”The Public Opinion QuarterlyVol. 41 No. 3 (Autumn 1977...
20. In an interview granted to a daily newspaper, the politician changed his opinion, explaining that he was supporting international efforts in favor of peace. CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE PASSIVE VOICE Translation exercise A, p. 117 -18 1. He is called Bruno. / His name is Bruno. 2. They giv...
Into the closed, gray, and overwhelmingly male world of French politics, a bombshell has dropped.Topping the opinion polls for next year's presidential elections is a chic, 52-year-old mother of four who is bringing a whirlwind of fresh air to the ruling class in Paris and promising a ...