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Sarkozy Gone

  • 06-05-2012 7:07pm
    #1
    flyswatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭


    France has a new socialist president in Francois Hollande getting 52 % of the votes.


    Socialist Francois Hollande has been elected as France's new president, early estimates say.

    He got about 52% of votes in Sunday's run-off, according to projections based on partial results, against 48% for centre-right incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.

    Mr Hollande would be the first French socialist president since 1995.

    Analysts say the vote has wide implications for the whole eurozone. Mr Hollande has vowed to rework a deal on government debt in member countries.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17975660


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    flyswatter wrote: »
    France has a new socialist president in Francois Hollande getting 52 % of the votes.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17975660

    They sure do. Also on the BBC website is this OP which I think would have been a far superior thread.


  • #3
    forfuxsake
    Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    au revoir Nicolas


  • #4
    Jess16
    Registered Users Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭Jess16


    Good riddance, never liked that little slimeball


  • #5
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Merkozy is no more.

    I now christen you HO-MER.


  • #6
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    Great news:D Who will Angela's next bedmate?:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:


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  • #7
    MetalDog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 904 ✭✭✭MetalDog


    Hollande now in charge of France :D


  • #8
    kitty9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 196 ✭✭kitty9


    poor Carla Bruni :( id smash her back doors in


  • #9
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    That means the upcoming referendum on the fiscal treaty should be halted immediately.
    He has repeatedly said that he'll change the treaty when he/if he got into power.

    Interesting times ahead, Angela will know her maker now! :D


  • #10
    Taco Corp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,718 ✭✭✭Taco Corp


    Slightly off topic but, how exactly do the French get the results of elections so fast?


  • #11
    Phoenix Park
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Phoenix Park


    kitty9 wrote: »
    poor Carla Bruni :( id smash her back doors in

    such a crude comment from such a sensitive username :pac:


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  • #12
    golden lane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    Surley wrote: »
    Slightly off topic but, how exactly do the French get the results of elections so fast?


    a sad day for france......and maybe a great day for the eu......and so fast...


  • #13
    Cork boy 55
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Cork boy 55


    kitty9 wrote: »
    poor Carla Bruni :( id smash her back doors in

    She will leave him now, I would put money on it.


  • #14
    Ares
    Site Banned Posts: 549 ✭✭✭Ares


    Surley wrote: »
    Slightly off topic but, how exactly do the French get the results of elections so fast?

    Electric system?

    If not, Only 2 candidates in run off so tallies would be pretty spot on.


  • #15
    Pushtrak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    Surley wrote: »
    Slightly off topic but, how exactly do the French get the results of elections so fast?
    Seems it is projections.


  • #16
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Cork boy 55 wrote: »
    She will leave him now, I would put money on it.

    who else would have her, have you seen her pics lately she is ruined with surgery gone wrong. She is not a pretty face.


  • #17
    couch_dweller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭couch_dweller


    Surley wrote: »
    Slightly off topic but, how exactly do the French get the results of elections so fast?

    electronic voting , apparently not everyone thinks they are an evil conspirocy like we do


  • #18
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    I for one welcome our new French bespectacled overlord

    Vive la France


  • #19
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,946 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Good enough for Le Petit Gimp.


  • #20
    Lollers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Lollers


    Good riddance, you nasty goblin faced little man


  • #21
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,198 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    hondasam wrote: »
    who else would have her, have you seen her pics lately she is ruined with surgery gone wrong. She is not a pretty face.

    Yes. The dimple on her chin is actually her belly-button.


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  • #22
    Born to Die
    Closed Accounts Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Born to Die


    Socialism on the rise in Europe, oh my where will this lead. :eek:




    :pac:

    Good Riddance to the little man. He is now an non-entity. :)


  • #23
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    I'm glad to see Sarkozy go, but FFS, A SOCIALIST!! Better dead than red. To be honest there was much choice in the election. You had your pick of either a communist, a socialist, a fascist or another fascist who denies the holocaust.


  • #24
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Pedant wrote: »
    I'm glad to see Sarkozy go, but FFS, A SOCIALIST!! Better dead than red.

    Prove it


  • #25
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    Born to Die wrote: »
    Socialism on the rise in Europe, oh my where will this lead. :eek:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs


  • #26
    Cork boy 55
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Cork boy 55


    hondasam wrote: »
    who else would have her, have you seen her pics lately she is ruined with surgery gone wrong. She is not a pretty face.


    Thai sex trade


  • #27
    Benny_Cake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


    Pedant wrote: »
    I'm glad to see Sarkozy go, but FFS, A SOCIALIST!! Better dead than red. To be honest there was much choice in the election. You had your pick of either a communist, a socialist, a fascist or another fascist who denies the holocaust.

    Hollande is at best only mildly left-of-centre, it's amazing how a party's name can send people into such a panic!


  • #28
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Prove it

    *Points gun at temple*


  • #29
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    Benny_Cake wrote: »
    Hollande is at best only mildly left-of-centre, it's amazing how a party's name can send people into such a panic!

    If a party started up in the UK tomorrow that calling itself "The National Socialist Party", I'd be worried. Usually a party's name is a good indicator of their mindset.


  • #30
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Pedant wrote: »
    *Points gun at temple*
    Post a video when you're done :pac:
    As far as socialists go, Hollande is fairly well centered.. and he's not really Euro-skeptical either which isn't a bad thing.

    Better him than Marine Le Pen!


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  • #31
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Good riddance to bad rubbish.
    One slimeball less in power is always a good thing.

    I didn't like the creep.


  • #32
    golden lane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    Pedant wrote: »
    If a party started up in the UK tomorrow that calling itself "The National Socialist Party", I'd be


    guillotine, comes to mind.......


  • #33
    Ellis Dee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    golden lane wrote: »
    Pedant wrote: »
    If a party started up in the UK tomorrow that calling itself "The National Socialist Party", I'd be


    guillotine, comes to mind.......

    Bon débarras, Nicolas!

    Did you know the guillotine was invented in the same year as Rizla cigarette papers?:D

    A lot of heads have rolled since then.;);)


  • #34
    tolosenc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,889 ✭✭✭tolosenc


    The PS in France is basically Labour.

    Still though, this is a guy determined to lower the returement age. Given that it's in France, that must mean going to about 25.


  • #35
    golden lane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    Ellis Dee wrote: »
    golden lane wrote: »

    Bon débarras, Nicola!

    Did you know the guillotine was invented in the same year as Rizla cigarette papers?:D



    no head put bacco....


  • #36
    couch_dweller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭couch_dweller


    Pedant wrote: »
    I'm glad to see Sarkozy go, but FFS, A SOCIALIST!! Better dead than red. To be honest there was much choice in the election. You had your pick of either a communist, a socialist, a fascist or another fascist who denies the holocaust.

    france has always been a very socilist ( by international standards ) country


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  • #37
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Delighted to see the back of him.


  • #38
    washman3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    Not so Kozy now....:D:D


  • #39
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    Great news for France and for Europe. :D Never have to look at that odious little prick in the media again. God I hated him....


  • #40
    franc 91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 401 ✭✭franc 91


    Well I'm happy to see that François Hollande has won, though the results still have to be confirmed, but and it's a big but - the PS and its allies have another hurdle to jump and that's winning the legislative elections - otherwise it's going to be a complete stalemate - and even then, it isn't going to be easy trying to get rid of all the placemen and the obstacles put in their way. NS has spent a lot of time getting the system sewn up in his favour and he's done a lot of damage - and I'm sure you know precisely what I'm talking about. I've just read a piece in the Irish Times about a bleak future for Irish universities and how the system has been turned inside out. My son was supposed to be going over to Dublin to do a postdoc - but the money just isn't there.


  • #41
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Cork boy 55 wrote: »
    She will leave him now, I would put money on it.

    Make an offer then.


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  • #42
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Let's see Sarkozy ruffle Enda Kenny's hair now.


  • #43
    dsmythy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,520 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    He's giving development funds for troubled suburbs. About time new amenities were built for people to burn.

    Oh he's also going to tax the rich, reduce their deficit to 0% by 2017, have lots of new teachers and coppers and tonnes of government sponsored jobs all while reducing the retirement age from 62 to 60. He's just amazing.


  • #44
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    couch_dweller wrote: »
    france has always been a very socilist ( by international standards ) country

    Evil commies. I fart in their général directíon.


  • #45
    tfitzgerald
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭tfitzgerald


    Delighted to see the back of Merkel's yes man .


  • #46
    Dunny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Dunny


    Who?


  • #47
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    tfitzgerald wrote: »
    Delighted to see the back of Merkel's yes man .

    Does this mean another France-German war?


  • #48
    golden lane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    dsmythy wrote: »
    He's giving development funds for troubled suburbs. About time new amenities were built for people to burn.

    Oh he's also going to tax the rich, reduce their deficit to 0% by 2017, have lots of new teachers and coppers and tonnes of government sponsored jobs all while reducing the retirement age from 62 to 60. He's just amazing.

    retirement age in the eu.......is at present 16 years of age.......and very successfull thay have been achieveing that.....


  • #49
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,107 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Pedant wrote: »
    Does this mean another France-German war?

    They're missing out the war bit this time, and just going for the surrender.


  • #50
    Dunny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Dunny


    Willie for Minister of Education!!



  • #51
    golden lane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    Pedant wrote: »
    Does this mean another France-German war?

    prussians attack across french border.......french socialists retreat in disorder, whilst eu commissioners watch with brandy and cigars in each hand... sitting on a very comfortable sedan.....

    merkel expects all 27 european states to be reunified, under her leadership.....


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