{"id":1419,"date":"2006-12-09T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/12\/09\/french-elections-update\/"},"modified":"2006-12-09T15:00:47","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T15:00:47","slug":"french-elections-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/12\/french-elections-update\/","title":{"rendered":"French elections update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good roundup of the conservative UMP party&#8217;s presidential primary process courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/timescorrespondents.typepad.com\/charles_bremner\/2006\/12\/a_woman_takes_o.html\">Charles Bremner<\/a> at the Times &#8211; including the latest challenge to Sarkozy in the form of Defence Minister Mich\u00c3\u00a8le Alliot-Marie.<\/p>\n<p>Considering socialist candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/frenchelection2007.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/royal-embarrassment.html\">S\u00c3\u00a9gol\u00c3\u00a8ne Royal&#8217;s apparent foreign policy failures<\/a> on her recent trip to the Middle East (<a href=\"http:\/\/frenchelection2007.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/royal-questioned-by-former-prime.html\">more aftermath<\/a>), a strong UMP showing on foreign matters &#8211; especially taking a hard line on defence and related issues (especially immigration, following France&#8217;s recent race-related violence) &#8211; could prove to be the area that tips the 50-50 split in public opinion in the UMP&#8217;s favour. After so many years of Chirac focussing largely on domestic affairs, is it time for a more Mitterrand-style stance for France, looking once again towards the wider world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good roundup of the conservative UMP party&#8217;s presidential primary process courtesy of Charles Bremner at the Times &#8211; including the latest challenge to Sarkozy in the form of Defence Minister Mich\u00c3\u00a8le Alliot-Marie. Considering socialist candidate S\u00c3\u00a9gol\u00c3\u00a8ne Royal&#8217;s apparent foreign policy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/12\/french-elections-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}