Is there still hope for the French classical liberals? Those last ones are very active on the blogosphere, bypassing mainstream media. Alternative Libérale is trying hard to unify every single freedom fighter, in the context of a difficult political system for new party to break through. What about taking control of an existing party from the inside? Until now the french liberals gained very limited power into the UMP. Bayrou has destroyed the center (ex UDF) to create the Modem, which happened to fail. Still you can dream of gathering these 53% of non-voters into some form of new political force. But they perhaps simply don’t believe at all in the political system. Or lose hope that, with socialism so deeply anchored in the society, it cannot be reformed. They gave up. It’s more likely that a majority of French are waiting for everything but the free-market revolution.
March 19, 2010
French Regional Elections : Is there still hope for french liberals ?