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Sarkozy loses conservative #primaries, ending bid for re-election
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/201116/sarkozy-loses-conservative-primaries-ending-bid-re-election

A large turnout was reported in Sunday’s first-round voting to elect #France’s conservative candidate to stand in next year’s presidential elections. Of the seven rivals, only the two who emerge in the lead will go on to run in next Sunday’s decisive second round. With the ruling French Left in broad disarray, it is widely predicted that whoever wins the Républicains primaries will find themselves facing far-right leader Marine Le Pen in the crunch second round of the presidential elections next May. Early partial results suggest François Fillon is well in the lead, followed by Alain Juppé with a slim lead over Nicolas Sarkozy. Follow the news and reactions as the results arrive through the evening in this live (...)

#2017_French_presidential_elections #Les_Républicains

French conservatives begin voting for presidential candidate
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/201116/french-conservatives-begin-voting-presidential-candidate

A large turnout was reported on Sunday in first-round voting to elect the #France’s conservative candidate to stand in next year’s presidential elections. Of the seven rivals, only the two who emerge in the lead will go on to run in next Sunday’s decisive second round. With the ruling French Left in broad disarray, it is widely predicted that whoever wins the Républicains party #primaries will find themselves facing far-right leader Marine Le Pen in the crunch second round of the presidential elections next May. Opinion polls report the top three candidates are ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, his former prime minister François Fillon, and veteran conservative and one-time prime minister Alain Juppé, who all appeared to be neck-and-neck as the voting began. Follow the news and reactions as the (...)

#2017_French_presidential_elections #Les_Républicains

Why did French Justice Minister #Christiane_Taubira resign?
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/02/why-did-french-justice-minister-christiane-taubira-resign

Last week, #France’s Minister of Justice, Christine Taubira (known for introducing the 2013 same-sex marriage law in France) resigned from the government, contesting French President François #Hollande’s new ‘terrorist law.” Shortly after the Paris attacks, French President François Hollande, along with the Prime Minister Manuel Valls, pledged to conduct legal reforms that would allow taking […]

#FRONT_PAGE #citizenship #Europe #immigration #Nicolas_Sarkozy

The #ParisAttacks and #France’s Long History of #colonialism
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/11/the-parisattacks-and-frances-long-history-of-colonialism

In the wake of the #ParisAttacks earlier this month, lots of think pieces emerged that tried to make sense of the vile acts that took the lives of 130 people.....

#FRONT_PAGE #Politics #terrorism

France’s misconceived ‘Marshall Plan’ for Haiti, by Michel Degraff
▻http://mondediplo.com/blogs/france-s-misconceived-marshall-plan-for-haiti

During his visit in #Haiti on May 12, 2015, President François Hollande called Haiti a “great French-speaking nation”, then he launched a French-based “Marshall Plan for Education” in Haiti. The rationale for this plan suggests that Hollande is unfamiliar with Haiti’s identity and history, and with UNESCO’s research on language and education. 

Such unfamiliarity undermines his offer to repay #France’s debt to Haiti through this “Marshall Plan” — a financial and moral debt dating from 1825, when Haiti’s founders agreed, under military threat, to a protracted and debilitating plan to pay a ransom of 150 million francs for Haiti’s independence in 1804. [#st]

▻http://zinc.mondediplo.net/messages/1215 via Le Monde diplomatique

#WhiteHistoryMonth : Dr. Pierre Messmer, #France’s Dirty #war General
▻http://africasacountry.com/the-general-who-was-in-charge-of-frances-dirty-war-in-cameroon

In the late nineteen-fifties, a brutal but secret war unfolded between French colonial authorities and the maquis, pro-independence nationalists, in the forests of what was then the French administered territory.....

#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Cameroon #independence #POLITICS

Syrian Opposition Group Rejects #Aleppo #Freeze_Plan
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/24008

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Syrian #rebel forces in Aleppo on Sunday rejected UN envoy #Staffan_de_Mistura's plan for a freeze in fighting in the divided northern city, dealing a blow to his peace efforts. The announcement came during a meeting attended by the exiled National Coalition chief #Khaled_Khoja, who on Sunday praised #France’s anti-Assad stance. On the same day another rebel group in Aleppo dissolved itself and joined an Islamist front.

#Francois_Hollande #French_lawmakers #Hazm #ISIS #National_Coalition_of_Syrian_Revolution_and_Opposition_Forces #Nusra_front #syria #Walid_Muallem

#France’s latest calls for #TTIP transparency fall on deaf ears
▻http://www.euractiv.com/sections/trade-industry/frances-latest-calls-ttip-transparency-fall-deaf-ears-308652 #EU #Europe

#Gaza conflict exposes #France’s own struggles with xenophobia
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/gaza-conflict-exposes-france%E2%80%99s-own-struggles-xenophobia

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A protesters hold a placard reading “We are all Palestinians” as he kneels on a giant Palestinian flag near the Barbes-Rochechouart aerial metro station prior to the departure of a demonstration, banned by French police, in #Paris on July 19, 2014 to denounce #Israel's military campaign in Gaza and show support for the Palestinian people. (Photo: Francois Guillot-AFP) A protesters hold a placard reading “We are all Palestinians” as he kneels on a giant Palestinian flag near the Barbes-Rochechouart aerial metro station prior to the departure of a demonstration, banned by French police, in Paris on July 19, 2014 to denounce Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and show support for the Palestinian people. (Photo: Francois Guillot-AFP) (...)

#World #Articles #Bernard_Cazeneuve #Francois_Hollande #jewish_defense_league #Manuel_Valls #Palestine #Representative_Council_of_Jewish_Institutions_in_France #Tel_Aviv