john07
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Post by john07 on Mar 1, 2022 23:20:28 GMT
You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh. Please leave Neil Young out of this. |
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Post by grahammurray on Mar 2, 2022 9:31:20 GMT
You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh. Please leave Neil Young out of this. I think you'll find that the heart Mr Young was constantly seeking was made of gold not stone. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 2, 2022 10:52:03 GMT
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The Bishop
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 2, 2022 11:51:30 GMT
I'm worried about Éric Zemmour Could have left it there really. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 3, 2022 12:53:04 GMT
Macron to formally declare his candidature this evening. Nominations close tomorrow.
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Post by No Offence Alan on Mar 3, 2022 12:55:47 GMT
Macron to formally declare his candidature this evening. Nominations close tomorrow. It would be so funny if some administrative cock-up led to him not standing. |
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Post by relique on Mar 3, 2022 15:51:41 GMT
Macron to formally declare his candidature this evening. Nominations close tomorrow. It would be so funny if some administrative cock-up led to him not standing. The only administrative cock-up would be not to give the constitutional council his informations on taxes, wealth etc and he already needs to give them as the PR. There's no "filing" per se. Only a deadline for mayors and elected officials to send their support to someone, and already more than 500 gave theirs to him |
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ilerda
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Post by ilerda on Mar 3, 2022 15:55:31 GMT
Are signatures verified as they go or all verified at the end of the nomination process?
I seem to recall someone saying earlier if a mayor signs for two different candidates both are voided. When does this happen?
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Post by relique on Mar 3, 2022 17:45:47 GMT
Are signatures verified as they go or all verified at the end of the nomination process? I seem to recall someone saying earlier if a mayor signs for two different candidates both are voided. When does this happen? It would happen as we go along. All signatures are validated BUT not the candidacy After tomorrow the next step for the council is to verify the number of signatures is enough (500) and that two rules are respected : each candidate must receive signatures from 30 départements at least and a département can only provide up to 10% of a candidate's signatures. Then the candidates must send their tax/wealth papers and the council can announce the official number of candidacies |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 4, 2022 9:35:56 GMT
Last day for parrainages today. Philippe Poutou is possibly the only candidate who needs them - currently on 439, having put on a last minute spurt. Everyone else either over 500 or too far off to make it.
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Post by johnloony on Mar 4, 2022 19:58:41 GMT
What main-party prospective candidates have there been in previous elections who didn't get the necessary 500 nominations, but who would have been likely to get a large % of the votes if they had done so?
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Post by minionofmidas on Mar 4, 2022 20:24:54 GMT
What main-party prospective candidates have there been in previous elections who didn't get the necessary 500 nominations? Pretty much by definition (of "main party") none. If there ever was an independent with popular support, or somebody with popularity beyond his fringe splinter party, who was stopped by the parrainages rule, then I'm not aware of it - but that doesn't mean there wasn't anybody at all. |
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Post by relique on Mar 4, 2022 21:46:41 GMT
Dominique de Villepin, former PM, officially, in 2012, but most agree he had them but gave up because of the polls. (his best poll had been 9% but towards the end, he only got 1 to 3% in the polls)
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 7, 2022 16:51:51 GMT
Poutou made it with 157 parrains in the last update. 12 candidates seem therefore to have qualified:
ARTHAUD Nathalie
DUPONT-AIGNAN Nicolas
HIDALGO Anne
JADOT Yannick
LASSALLE Jean
LE PEN Marine
MACRON Emmanuel
MÉLENCHON Jean-Luc
PÉCRESSE Valérie
POUTOU Philippe
ROUSSEL Fabien
ZEMMOUR Éric
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Post by london(ex)tory on Mar 7, 2022 22:44:06 GMT
It's a real shame that an election with such an interesting spread of candidates will be such a tedious foregone conclusion.
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jamie
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Post by jamie on Mar 7, 2022 23:24:43 GMT
It's a real shame that an election with such an interesting spread of candidates will be such a tedious foregone conclusion. Thats one way of putting it... |
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Post by johnloony on Mar 9, 2022 0:57:17 GMT
It's weird that the Socialist Party candidate is only on about 3% in the opinion polls.
A fun ("fun" in the sense of "interesting") alternative history would be if Macron were squeezed between the left and right, and splitting the vote on either side resulted in a 2nd round between a Trotskyist and a Zemmourist.
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Post by John Chanin on Mar 9, 2022 7:52:32 GMT
It's weird that the Socialist Party candidate is only on about 3% in the opinion polls. A fun ("fun" in the sense of "interesting") alternative history would be if Macron were squeezed between the left and right, and splitting the vote on either side resulted in a 2nd round between a Trotskyist and a Zemmourist. This is the sort of thing that has happened in South America, most recently in Peru. It is not fun in any sense. |
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Post by carlton43 on Mar 9, 2022 22:29:43 GMT
It's weird that the Socialist Party candidate is only on about 3% in the opinion polls. A fun ("fun" in the sense of "interesting") alternative history would be if Macron were squeezed between the left and right, and splitting the vote on either side resulted in a 2nd round between a Trotskyist and a Zemmourist. This is the sort of thing that has happened in South America, most recently in Peru. It is not fun in any sense. Oh yes it is if it is in France. It would be very very funny indeed and everything that they so richly deserve. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Mar 10, 2022 20:00:40 GMT
France does have a history of offering up a socialist and a fascist. Admittedly that was just one man.
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