"Instead of voting for Le Pen this time, the French voted for a copy."

Contrairement à ce qu'on laisse entendre, les médias étrangers sont loin de saluer unanimement la victoire du neocons hexagonal. Une analyse sans concession (mais ô combien pertinente)  de l'excellent Spiegel (l'hebdomadaire de référence en Allemagne) :

(...) What about the past five years? Wasn't victor Sarkozy's party at the helm? Was the future president not already part of Chirac's cabinet, having served stints as finance, economics and interior minister? Was he not the third from the top in government? And did he not bear any responsibility whatsoever for his country's slow decline? That's actually the real artwork of this campaign: With an impressively professional strategy, "Team Sarkozy" succeeded in repackaging their man, a longtime minister, as a "newcomer," an outsider -- practically an opposition figure. Voters somehow forgot the fact that Sarkozy rose to the top of his party through political maneuvering and power plays and through his pacts with Chirac -- sometimes with him and sometimes against him -- and that he has been a part of the party apparatus throughout his career.

(...) Sarkozy succeeded in retouching his image by dipping his hand into the toolbox of America's neoconservatives. Many French fear they are being defenselessly hurdled towards a disquieting and potentially even dangerous future, and Sarkozy fed these fears by pledging a categorical restructuring of society and an ideological return to traditional values. And what about his populist commitment to morals, authority and responsibility, his references to the contributions the nation had made to the world and his vision of an internationally strengthened France? What perfect balm for a nation's oppressed soul.

The retouching also involved a clearly recognizable shift to the right: Without any shyness and a demagogic deftness Sarkozy was able -- already at the first round of voting -- to win over the voters of the extremist National Front (FN). With his thinly veiled attacks against immigrants from the North African Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa and his pledge to create a "Ministry for Immigration and National Identity," he made the right-wing slogans of FN leader Jean-Marie Le Pen palatable. In doing so, he managed to hijack Le Pen's right-wing protest voters. Instead of voting for Le Pen this time, the French voted for a copy.(...)

Le reste de l'article ici.

Comments

[poly]

@Babar & Jonas : j'ai effectivement parfois l'impression que les étrangers sont mieux informés sur la politique francaise.
@Pibiche & PV : Koi, les Francais seraient des boeufs ? On avait dit des veaux, nan ?
@Gil : Sarko est contre le mariage, contre l'adoption, mais il y a aussi des gays qui sont contre, va savoir pourquoi. Ce qui me navre, c'est que des électeurs parfaitement informées ont voté Sarko en toute connaissance de cause. Qu'ils ne viennent pas se plaindre après.

[Jonas]

Gil* => La sexualité n'est pas un critère politique (excepté si l'on décrète qu'un gay vote génétiquement rose ^^).

Poly => L'information interne, en France, est bloquée. Comment veux-tu qu'en plus elle passe nos frontières ?

[Gil*]

Excellent article. Sarkozy a été élu par plusieurs types d'électeurs : la France de l'argent, la France des vieux, la France lepéniste et la France qui n'a pas accès à l'information. J'ai (j'avais) pote gay qui ne fait pas partie de ces catégories et qui a voté pour Sarkozy "parce que c'est ses idées". J'ai beau être tolérant, il pourra attendre longtemps avant que je lui adresse la parole.

[PBE]

POLY: gngngngngn

PigeonVoyageu:Le boeuf est cependant allé en masse au bureau de veaute.

[pigeonvoyageur]

ce résultat ne montre qu'une chose.. le temps de cerveau utile du boeuf de base a été bien utilisé depuis 5 ans!
Quelle misère........