Today is a special to remember for French people. Eight years it was the first round of the presidential election in France, eight years ago the far right wing won against the left wing, eight years ago left wing people had to decide to vote against themselves for the right wing to save the Republic, eight years ago it was a politic earthquake in France, 8 years ago I saw my country with different eyes for ever…
Second round
Will we forget it ?
Lionel Jospin : Left wing leader
No one is going to forget what happened that day. I remember perfectly that for the first time in my life I decided to don’t watch the TV for the first results because I was sure about them. The second round would have been left against right, Lionel Jospin vs Jacques Chirac. So I went to the cinema, ready to come back to watch the debates. When I went out of the cinema, I had a lot of messages on my voicemail. I listened, the first one and I thought it was a joke, and the second one, and the one after… The left wing lost, and the far right will be in the second round vs the the right. Like a lot of people, I cried and ran closed to Bastille. I went back home, called my friends, opened the TV and I was without words. It was just impossible to conceive it and it was the reality.
After few minutes, the left candidate spoke and said he quit because obviously he failed. It was the second horrific news of the day. But from that moment, French people decided to react not in voting for the right but in voting against the far right. Everybody were concerned, deeply concerned… And for me at that time, I thought now it’s done it can’t happen again… And maybe I was wrong.
In 2012 : The same scenario ?
Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Few days ago, Daniel Cohn Bendit, a politician from the green wing explained a theory that was very interesting, possibly true and very scary. At the moment, Nicolas Sarkozy is in a really bad position in all the surveys, in the French hearts. He is dictatorial amd quite hated, even in his own party. In the right wing, people have become to change their views about him and 2 former prime ministers decided to create two different new parties. If in 2 years, Sarkozy is still hated like now, French people who vote right are going to spread their votes in the different little parties. And it could happen one thing, at the first round, the right is going to lose and it will be a second round left vs far right.
I could say I will be happy because if it would happen, the left will win in France. But no, I wont be happy because again and even worst for the second time the far right will win the first round in the country I love, the country I’m proud of for the human rights, the social rules, the culture…
Eight years ago, the 21st April 2002, something change in each French heart, eight years ago we felt all the same sadness and shame, eight years ago we thought we won’t let it happen again…
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