6-May-12 World View -- Elections in France, Greece and Iran

[John]

6-May-12 World View -- Elections in France, Greece and Iran affect world events


Hollande's ultra-feminist 'companion' Valérie Trierweiler would be reluctant first lady

** 6-May-12 World View -- Elections in France, Greece and Iran affect world events
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/cgi-bin/D.PL?xct=gd.e120506#e120506



Contents:
Investors worry about France after a win by François Hollande
Hollande's ultra-feminist 'companion' Valérie Trierweiler would be reluctant first lady
Conservative Samaras expected to lead in Greece's elections
Iran's election results indicate support for nuclear program


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, France, François Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy,
Germany, Angela Merkel, Valérie Trierweiler, Ségolène Royal,
Carla Bruni, Greece, New Democracy party, Antonis Samaras,
Evangelos Venizelos, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Israel

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his far left challenger François Hollande in France's presidential election

François Hollande is in fact a representant from the moderate left. The far left candidates were Jean-Luc Mélenchon supported by a coalition including France's communist party and radical associations and two "small" troskyist candidates.
France is more leftist than the USA : we have no significant libertarian or christian parties, our far-right candidate Marine Le Pen would be considered an oddity in the USA because she is "pro-choice", calls for a bigger welfare state but is anti-immigration and protectionist, federalism is unknown and often ill-understood and our national reflex in economy is statism. French political landscape is as exotic for an American as the American political landscape for a French.