The elections are all set to culminate in France and all
minds are wondering who would come to rile the nation ones ruled by the likes
of Napoleon Bonaparte. The superficial ends there, but subtle realities present
itself in the minds of its citizens with shocking bareness. The country is not
in its best times, may not be its worst of times, with no Hitler to run over
them and no external threads from its old enemy and new friend Britain, it’s
not their worst times they have more serious problems troubling them unlike
having a child at the throne this time its way more serious.
The French economy has not done much progress in the last
decade; instead it was decadence that one would see in the socio-economic
climate of the nation, its apathetic growth rate, the absence of virtually any
trade, a utter lack of competition in the world export market, the swindling
public deficits. The New France is much more inward looking, much more
concerned with its own problems than its former time and rightfully so. The nation who politics was once influenced
by the factors outside its borders, like the al Qaeda, the Iraq and so can no
longer afford to be ignorant of the burning in its own stomach. The New France
is a narcissist.
This electoral campaign has been wildly influenced by ideas
relating to and limited to ‘French’ only, in fact a populist candidate has
promised its youth all the wonderful things under the sun, if it opts to quit
the euro zone, drive away its foreigners and do away with the Wall Street. This
is a dramatic reversal from what the French elections were fought on the
previous years and it’s very worrying.
The contending parties are as always The Conservatives and
the Socialists, and the result of this election with hang in a delicate balance
and far beyond the realm of predictability will have far reaching repercussions
both inside and outside the nation of France or even Europe. The French is us
unpredictable as it can get, after all, all of them have a spirit of revolution
in their blood and it has to come out some time or the other. It may be the same as in 1981 when France
rejected the paths set by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan only to return to
it in two years’ time. With this time be any different, only time will tell.
Written for 'Hold the Thought, Get the Point' by our guest blogger Rupertt Wind.
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