Click on the title for an AP article about the beginning of Chirac's predicted purge.
It will be quite interesting to see how the French react to this. They may very well get peeved enough to start demonstrations that could get ugly. If that happens, it could lead to a serious constitutional crisis.
Chirac is said to be fuming and seeking revenge against those that opposed him. I really can't imagine the French tolerating this without some noise. Le Pen (the ultra-right wing party leader that is Chirac's closest competition) is gaining support among those sick of Chirac, his ideological imperialism, and now, his tactics to punish those that dared to disagree with the Emperor-wannabe.
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Chirac's first move was to fire his PM and appoint Dominique de Villepin as prime minister. It seems he wants to take the people's mind off the EU by raising the level of anti-Americanism in the country a few notches.
You are absolutely, 100%, correct.
But it will backfire because France's problems are not directly related to anything American. They have always had this "we don't need no stinking America" attitude since the end of the WWII rebuilding era. Because of that, we haven't been doing a lot of business.
What it does, is put Chirac and the Gaullist-Socialist alliance even deeper in the corner. If it does continue to deteriorate further for him, the country will have no other choice but to elect a new leader, change directions, and as usual come back crawling to the US for help.
What's really going to be fun is the question of who grabs the French nuclear stockpile when the islamonazis openly made their grab for power.
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