Presidential elections France – second round results live
This post will be used to give you live impressions from the French presidential elections by Olaf and Steeph from the studio of France24.
As soon as exit polls or results will come in we will give some update over here. Below the fold Olaf and Steeph will give some personal observations.
In the mean time, your opinion on the results as well as on the possible actions of the newly elected president are welcome in the comments.
Please respond in English since the comments will also feature on the France24 site.
First round on Sargasso.
Special France24 election site.
Other blogs doing live blogging:
Christophe Ginisty
Philippe Martin
Luca Conti (+photo’s)
Joshua Boswell
Stephane Deschanel
Nues Blog
Caroline
Anders Gjoen
Nicolas Voisin
Memoire Vive
Olaf
17:45 –
“You are from the Netherlands!”,
“Thus you helped us with the NO against the European Constitution!”, says the taxidriver who drives me at a steady 130 kilometers an hour from the airport straight to the studio of France24.
“Well”, I hesitate, and inform tell him that I voted in favour of that document.
“But come-on!”, he shouts, “before we open up the European Union to other countries, like Turkey and Ukraine – where I just arrived from – before that, we need to stabalise the work of the Union”. “It’s a mess right now!”.
He gets me confused.
“Isn’t that exactly what that constitution was all about?”, I ask.
“Ahh well”, he tells me. “politics is not my thing anyhow…”
Steeph
17:45 – Nice detail. On the way over to the hotel from the railway station, the taxi driver pointed out the house Chirac will use after leaving his office. It’s near the Seine. Very modest place, seen from the outside.
18:30 – You can feel the tension rising.
19:45 – Amazing how they switch between three versions of French24. First the English one with Olaf and me. Then the Arabic one and now the French edition. All within 10 minutes from the same room.
19:55 – 5 minutes left. People falling still.
20:05 – Silence over here. People listening to Royal. You can feel relief after such a strong battle.
20:35 – Interviewed some people. Most are wondering what will exactly happen now he’s really president. Some hope he will change the economic balance. Just a few people applauded over here when he appeared and started speaking.
20:45 – Only a very brief moment, Sarkozy removes a tear.
Photo’s
Olaf with Luca:
Caroline from Boston came in with this:
Sarkozy just after his speech looking at himself a the big screen over here:
Elections in Second Life:
Arabic interview of a blogger, and live on background:
Talking heads in three different languages:
Very surreal over here. Loads of screens with news. But non of them is about the elections since they can’t say anything about it till 7 o’clock.
Any guess, dear colleages and reporters, as who will be the winner?
We have a guess. Yes.
Exitpoll: Sarkozy wint met 53 procent.
A yes, not a ‘no’, then?
How do you experts explain the enormous outcome during these elections?
waarom lees ik enkel overal het uitslagpercentage van Sarkozy en niks maar dan ook nergens iets over de getallen van Ségolène Royal ?
ah “45 to 47 per cent for his Socialist Party opponent”
We can’t say anything, but Sar is smiling.
Scientology in the Élysée, Xenu doesn’t stand a chance now.
In the mean time? How cruel!
@8: Sar? Who is Sar?
SarTre? Sartran? SarGasso?
Olaf and Steeph live just a minute ago, well done guys !
Why it’s always me and the constitution???
and why is it always me forgetting what I was about to say! Damn!
53% sARKOZY…
Ik zie jullie in het “live blogging” schermpje niet echt juichen. Hoe is de sfeer daar?
Working hard Roy.. And there is a 1 minute delay.
Excuse me. Completely forgot to write in English…
How many months you boys gather it will be until Sarcrooks first scandal?
And did Berlusconi send his regards yet?
And will there be free love on the streets of Montmartre this evening?
Sarkozy driving through Paris looks like the arrival of the Tour de France ?!
@carlos: Sarko’s car being chased by these photographers in motorcycles actually reminds me of another Paris event
A have just made a screendump from the scene that reminded me of another political guy in his Bentley. And the famous words he spoke: “I am going to be the prime minister of this country”. It looked like Sarkozy was about to say the same (sort of).
[img]http://www.sargasso.nl/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/sarkozy_1.jpg[/img]
It just popped up into my mind, I don’t want to wake the Dutch Godwins, especially not on the 6th of May…
@Crachat: We’ll check out on the love thing first okay?
Sarkozy: “France will not abandon women in a burka”
Sarkozy president? As far as I can see, that means bad news regarding the mounting environmental issues that face the population of France, Europe and the entire planet.
@ReinoutS: For the environment it is indeed not a good thing. One of the few things everybody agreed on here in France is that Royal had far better plans for that.
@ Steeph: any riots in the studio so far?
Should we be scared? How far-right exactly is Sarko? Or are we overestimating France’s influence?
@19
Just give us a buzz when the free love-thing happens, if there’s cctv on Montmartre…
Scandals in France… hmmm, tough, mistresses are not scandalous enough I reckon..
Komaan folks,,at steeph, wat denk je zijn de gevolgen…aub?
Kärcher shares skyrocket as we speak…
Ik ween.
@larie: Eigenlijk weten ze dat hier niet zo goed. Het hangt ergens tussen afwachtend en bang. Ze verwachten dat er wel degelijk wat maatregelen gaan komen op economisch gebied. Maar gelijk ook bang dat het tot veel sociale onrust zal leiden, met name in de periode na de zomer.
Somes..heel even heb ik spijt uiteindelijk (la mort) jonge mensen achter te laten in deze stinkende vuilnishoop :(
Ik mis uw distantie @Steeph..ik ga bij-leren.
Sarkozy has plans for a Mediterranean Union within the EU. That may be the end of the Gernam-French axis as we know it. It mai even boil down to a new grouping of “Italo-Celtic-Iberians” versus the “Germanic-Slavonic” peoples.
Dutch PM Balkenende’s congratulations to Sarkozy will be only a little less heart felt than four years ago when he had to address Jacques Chirac as the new PM of France.
@mescaline
So Sarkozy will opt for a two-speed European Union it seems. I think the Israel-Iran question will become the first major test for him.
Wat is nou het echte Sarko-draadje? Deze of die andere?
@22 How many dogs does Sarkozy have?
@39
Carla et Kenneth?
@ASH: Beide :-P
@larie: Veel mensen hier denken dat Sarkozy als hij eenmaal president is, veel gematigder zal zijn. Hij heeft immers bereikt waar hij voor knokte. Hij hoeft niets meer te bewijzen….
Iek ep nu tuwee skermen oopun… ies eel ingewikkuuld… En ouwaar moedik nuu engols praatun?
Voor de zekerheid zetten we nog een derde postje op :-)
Moeten jullie niet de studio in ?
@Hayek 37 I see it this way: Sarkozy will put Israel-Iran under the test. ;)
@43
Thanks Steeph… am trying to have a social life ànd watch telly at the same time as well..
telly?..Sargasso bedoel je toch zeker :) Gaat best beiden overigens @ASH.
@Carlos: Onduidelijk. Denk het haast niet. Er zijn hier nu 22 bloggers. Veel meer dan de vorige keer. Stuk of 10 van buiten frankrijk. Dus als we nog de studio in mogen van de engelse editie, wordt het vechten.
Larie, dit is ook een tellie soort van: http://pres2.france24.com
(rechtsonder zie je een webcam met oa. Steeph en Olaf)
@Larie
Nee, Savallas.
But relations with the US might get a little better, read: US incentives are accepted by the new French government for more support of the US in geopolitical issues (Middle East, oil). I always had the feeling that Chirac was trying to be one of the slowest of the European US-led followers.
Zit wat vertraging in dat beeld rechtsonder. Zal ik nu zwaaien, zie je het over een minuut.
Linksboven. Rood shirt is Olaf. Links naast hem (voor kijkers thuis) ben ik.
Hmm… the tickertape at France 24 just showed the email message from a viewer from France who said: “Congratulations Sarko, the airports will be busy soon” ….
I can only explain this as an anti-immigrant quote from somebody who would like to see immigrants being deported.
You mean just like Aruba to the evil Arubans Carlos ? Sarkozy is a late comer lalaa lalalaaa.
@54
Or maybe a lot of french people will be leaving the country now Sarko’s been elected, London has seen a great influx of french people in the past few years anyway..
Mescaline you are totally unfollowable…
@Steeph, what was Sarkozys tear about ?
We are the first civilised country that sends criminal outlanders back to their place of origin. Remember the Arubans in 2006 @Carlos ? You forgot ?
@mescaline: It was just after his acceptance speech. I think he was glad his 20 year run finally gave the wanted result.
@Carlos
Thanx, though it was just me not being able to follow ze lala laaaa
@59
Since when are we a civilized country? ;-)
Dear mescaline, I will never ever forget the Arubans.
I think a catch your drift.
Aah the bloggers are on the air again!
I understand @Steeph.
I do not understand Carlos/ASH. I am refering to gesunkenes Kulturgut of 2006 ? Too bad.
OK Carlos, skip my remark in 65.
Hey mescaline read #63 before you react.
Alright skip mine at #67
@ASH 59 we are a civilised country since 1672. The French invasion in the Pays-Bas, remember ?
Because of the abscene of a nice champagne reception in Paris (being a reaguurder at home) I am going to get myself a nioe whisky. I’ll be back ladies.
Somehow I expect Sikbock to be not a little overjoyed. Leftwing pretty dame BEATEN by SERIOUS right guy. Where is Sikbock ?
Oui oui, je comprends…. Je m’excuse…
Pretty dame seriously beaten by mister right?
Steeph and Olaf have left their positions?!
On their way to champagne or the studios?
… or the streets of Montmartre?
@74
Having their portrait painted while enjoying ze free love? Plaatjes!!!
The last champagne is being poored. They are closing the place down.
Poor champagne…… We’ll have a drink on you here…. Santé!
Re: Narkozy & middle east : I’m pretty sure he’ll not change Chirac’s course too much ; he’ll be focus(s)ing on France first, ensuring his popularity rises. Unless he will be put to the test by terrorism in the same way Bush, Aznar & Blair were. In which case I hope he’ll be well surrounded by good advisors.
[quote]Leftwing pretty dame BEATEN by SERIOUS right guy.[/quote]
In many other circumstances, a setting of a pretty lady with a conquerant male raises many sterotypical thoughts. Especially in France. Roland Barthes would have recognized this kind of similarity. And he would have written something in the kind of his [i]Mythologies[/i].
@Steeph, can you ask the French bloggers/panelists whether someone (in blog or print or TV) really took Barthes’ example for a bait and made a fresh comparison of (let me juxtapose a bit) the inner workings of the imagos by the Pretty Right Lady compared to the Average Joe Leftbehind ?
Touché, #79 !
@S’z Chirac had a sentiment, not a course. That is why I think that a good US ambassador can score with Sarkozy.
Ik sluit hier af. Morgen weer. We nemen ergens anders nog een drankje.
Goed zo, veel plezier!
@Steeph
Om de hoek vd Sacre Coeur zit een hele gezellige Ierse kroeg….!
Verdomd, ze pakken nog in ook…
@#81 : true. However, la France, c’est la France, and if Sarkozy is smart, he’ll acknowledge that France’s sentiment about the anglosaxons is more important to him than any geopolitical humbug people from Washington or Texas may try to impose on him. If Sarkozy is smart, he’ll stick to French sentiments.
From official interior ministry web site:
M. Nicolas SARKOZY 10.382.670 votes 51,87 %
Mme Ségolène ROYAL 9.635.587 votes 48,13 %
is she approaching???? Go, go !!
@86 Yep. Question#1 is, can you buy your folk’s gratitude and loyalty with cheap/carelessly gained cash.
Rumour has it (mine to be precise, I have to add ;)) that the answer is no.
@#84: eh, going to an Irish pub on French election night is NOT what a journalist should do, methinks. A Nanterre local or a Versailles brothel (bonjour Boobelino) may make for more interesting stories…
@89
Wasn’t thinking as a journalist, just as someone who was trying to advise a poor sod stuck in a room all night on how to have a grand time… methinks!
Why would Sarkozy want to buy his parents’ gratitude and loyalty, #88?
;-) @ Krekel (flauwerd)
Mwwwmmmhh folks=people. Voters. Fellow citoyens.
I like the Nanterre connection @S’z. Any juicies ?
Le Moulin Sargasse est ouvert? Borrelen we door?
Foebul op de bbc.
Foebul is al gespeeld fumiddag….
Kga toch die gooltjes pakken Trst.
‘t Zit Chelsea niet mee deze week.
Spoiler alert!!
Trusten
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/6630511.stm
Dank je wel @Steeph..ik heb net op U getoast met enige Schweizer freunde naast me :). De uitslag van deze verkiezing stemt me enigszins somber..een glijbaan en ik wil NIET potvolblomme.
zelfde hier, larie.
zucht.
Dit is slechtslecht Euronieuws.
ik maak denkbeeldig een pun op Sarkozy/Berlusci en Europy, en teruste.
Drama, drama… maar zal het zo’n vaart lopen. Alsof la Royal carrure had.
Mooi resultaat!
Gefeliciteerd Sarkozy.
Het zal wel loslopen, ik heb meer vertrouwen in Sarkozy dat hij de grondwet impasse vlottrekt dan dat Royal dat had gedaan/gekund. Als Sarko maar met z’n poten van de Noord-Afrikanen afblijft denk ik dat er verder wel zaken met hem te doen is.
Wellicht.
@#105. My gut feeling agrees. Also, Ségolène Royal was a Wouter Bos in the making. Tout compte fait, devenir le président de la république, c’est autre chose qu’être le ministre de l’intérieur. Allez, salut maintenant.
107bis : que d’être … of ? Zucht, wat een moeilijke taal. Ciao !
Ze moeten niet te vaak verkiezingen hebben daar in Frankrijk. Best heftig eigenlijk. Bij elkaar 16 uur reizen om 5 uur live te kunnen bloggen.
Aparte ervaring. Maar wel eens goed nadenken of het wel voldoende oplevert voor de inspanning. Gelukkig duurt het een paar jaar wat betreft de Fransen.
De inspanning waard, zeker voor U als individu lijkt me. Posters zijn geen machines maar mensen zodat de waarde voor het bloggen vanuit “dieptijd” gezien heel waardevol is..if u get my drift.
Bedankt.