{"id":8010,"date":"2012-06-10T10:22:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8010"},"modified":"2012-06-10T10:22:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T17:22:44","slug":"left-favored-in-french-election-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/10\/left-favored-in-french-election-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Left Favored in French Election Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m the first to admit that I\u2019m no expert in European politics, but even I know that this is not only potentially good news for the people of Europe, but also very important to the United States.  Republican-like policies in Europe have been just as destructive there as they have been here.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"10French\"France went to the polls on Sunday to elect the lower house of parliament, and media reports say that the electorate is inclined to give the left wing control of the legislature and consolidate Socialist President Francois Hollande\u2019s ability to rule<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Hollande, 57, in May was elected to a five-year term to run France\u2019s second-largest economy in the face of the Continent\u2019s sovereign-debt crisis. <\/p>\n

Hollande, who succeeded Nicolas Sarcozy as president, wants more of a focus on economic growth and less on strict austerity measures<\/strong> in Europe\u2019s struggling economies. <\/p>\n

About 45 million people are eligible to vote in France, reports say. Voting for the 577-seat National Assembly, also for five-year terms, ends at 8 p.m. local time (2 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time). <\/p>\n

In cases where one candidate doesn\u2019t win at least 50% of the vote for a seat, a runoff round of voting is set for June 17. Any candidate who wins at least 12.5% of the vote participates in the runoff, the Associated Press reported. <\/p>\n

The Senate, the upper house of parliament, is already controlled by left-wing legislators<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Although Europe\u2019s right wing is not as belligerent as US Republicans, a right wing victory could make it as difficult for Hollande to govern as Republican control of the House has made it for Obama to do so.<\/font><\/p>\n

The economies of Europe and the US are so intertwined that events in either effect both.  Both need pro-growth policies to improve the economy, because more right wing austerity will only cause more pain.  Kudos to France for taking the lead!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m the first to admit that I\u2019m no expert in European politics, but even I know that this is not only potentially good news for the people of Europe, but also very important to the United States.  Republican-like policies in Europe have been just as destructive there as they have been here. France went to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}