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...With leaders like ours, who only think of their own personal ambition of controlling the party, I don't see how we'll ever get back into power again," lamented Fouzia Benyoub, a Parti Socialiste (PS) member. Her glumness typified the mood at the party's 75th congress in Reims on Saturday. Many of the party's brightest lights seemed to be competing in the increasingly bitter battle for the position of first secretary, with an eye to launching a presidential bid of their own against Sarkozy in four years. And those who weren't were keeping busy dishing...
...almost nothing on traditional campaign topics, but launching missiles of iconoclasm where least expected. Earlier this week, she managed the difficult trick of enraging even Canada, when she offered an endorsement of what she called "the liberty and sovereignty of Quebec" after meeting with the head of the separatist Parti Québecois. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper responded with a brusque reminder that meddling in domestic affairs was "inappropriate for a foreign leader," and Sarkozy's camp could hardly contain its tut-tutting over Royal's penchant for being "extremely lightweight on important and sensitive subjects," as defense minister...
...commentators almost universally saw it as a bad thing, but there might be something to be said for steering clear of the cavalcade of facts and (occasionally) half-baked opinions found in newspapers.The British cleric and essayist John Henry Newman, for one, despised the “parti-colored ingenuities” and “reckless originality of thought” that periodical literature seems to engender. He saw the continual arrival of deadlines as a type of “cruel slavery,” driving writers to reduce everything to “nutshell truths...
...None of this would have much long-term consequence if it were not for the reviving separatist threat in Quebec. The secessionist Parti Quebecois last month elected a young and vibrant leader in Andre Boisclair, who has vowed to call a new referendum on Quebec sovereignty at his first opportunity. That could come within two years if his party can defeat the moribund ruling provincial Liberal party in the next provincial election. An acrimonious federal campaign followed by another weak and divided government in Ottawa will not do much for the federalist hopes in Quebec or even national unity...
Andre Boisclair, who graduated from the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) in June, became the first openly gay leader of a major North American political party earlier this month by winning the leadership of the separatist Parti Quebecois (PQ) in Canada. Even after Boisclair admitted to using cocaine in office, he secured 58.6 percent of his party’s vote and is promising to put forward a referendum on Quebec’s sovereignty within the next two years. With his party gaining momentum following the election, Boisclair has his sights set on the Premiership of Quebec. Securing such...