More on the French Socialists
Having been under the impression that Segolene Royal had the nomination in the bag, it looks as though I could scarcely be more wrong - just about every French Socialist seems to be jockeying for it. Liberation has gone through the runners and riders in the wake of Jospin's comments the other day:
Sego: "This changes nothing: I have always said that I will support the best placed candidate. If it is not me, I will support whoever is. We will see in September".
Fabius's right hand man: "We don't feel in the least concerned by this intervention".
A Dominique Strauss-Kahn ally: Takes LJ's 'availability' quite well.
Jack Lang: "Will the former culture minister be the first to stand down in order to aide a Jospin candidature, as the whisper in the Parti Socialiste has it ? "It is a pleasant joke", he says.
Francois Holland's spokesman: "We'd always assumed there would be a Jospin candidature".
So there you have it - almost as many contenders as there will be for the Democratic nomination next time, or come to that, rather more than for the Labour leadership. Going lowbrow for a bit, whoever wins, we lose....
Having been under the impression that Segolene Royal had the nomination in the bag, it looks as though I could scarcely be more wrong - just about every French Socialist seems to be jockeying for it. Liberation has gone through the runners and riders in the wake of Jospin's comments the other day:
Sego: "This changes nothing: I have always said that I will support the best placed candidate. If it is not me, I will support whoever is. We will see in September".
Fabius's right hand man: "We don't feel in the least concerned by this intervention".
A Dominique Strauss-Kahn ally: Takes LJ's 'availability' quite well.
Jack Lang: "Will the former culture minister be the first to stand down in order to aide a Jospin candidature, as the whisper in the Parti Socialiste has it ? "It is a pleasant joke", he says.
Francois Holland's spokesman: "We'd always assumed there would be a Jospin candidature".
So there you have it - almost as many contenders as there will be for the Democratic nomination next time, or come to that, rather more than for the Labour leadership. Going lowbrow for a bit, whoever wins, we lose....
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