France: Presidential Elections & Love All
French are quite irreverent! In France a President can go scot free even if he begets a ‘love child’ outside of marriage. And imagine what happened when an American President was found just ‘playing around’ with a young woman!
And it is a continuing story in France…
“Presidential candidate Segolene Royal is not married, and if she wins, her romantic partner plans to scorn the trappings of life as France’s ‘first gentleman’,” reports India’s premier TV channel NDTV.
“He swears he will not even live in the official Elysee Palace.
“Conservative contender Nicolas Sarkozy’s marriage has been tabloid fodder. It was love at first sight when he fell for his second wife, at her wedding to someone else.
“During Sarkozy’s run for the presidency, she left him for a while, and paparazzi photographed her hand-in-hand with another man.
“No matter who wins the May 6 runoff, these are times of change for the dusty institutions of the French presidency. The election will shift power from 74-year-old Jacques Chirac to one of two people born after World War II.
“The French seem no longer to want a father figure in the Elysee: Gallant, hand-kissing Chirac now seems old-fashioned. Royal and Sarkozy both carry iPods and won endorsements from rappers. Sarkozy, 52, jogs. Royal, 53, was photographed at the beach in a turquoise bikini…”
To read my earlier post on French Presidential elections please click here…
2 Responses to “France: Presidential Elections & Love All”
Swaraaj Chauhan
o.k. Swaraaj (or do you prefer Chauhan?), I owe you an appology.
No, your ideas are still as wrong as they could be, but the way I went about telling you was pretty unprofessional.
Hopefully I can do better in the future. I really will try, though the satirist in me makes it difficult at times. It isn’t personal, but unless you know me, how can I expect you to be aware of that.
And, if you think what I said to you is bad, you should hear some of what my friends say to me when they think I’m wrong.
Regards.
That’ all right! Everyone has a right to one’s opinion. Good luck. Enjoy yourself. Don’t worry…Be Happy! Cheers