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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Debate on the French identity a ploy to win extreme-right voters
The leftist intellectuals Aquilino Morelle and Manuel Valls write in the daily Le Monde that the debate on national identity launched by French President Nicolas Sarkozy is being used to fish for voters on the extreme right: "With this initiative Nicolas has committed a moral and a political mistake. Not that the question of the French identity should't be subject to debate. On the contrary, this old nation impregnated with politics and history must scrutinise, rightly or wrongly, its future, its values, its place in the global world, its role in today's fast-paced world and the very meaning of its existence. The problem is the president's hidden agenda. He chose to launch this debate ... to lure the voters of the [extreme-right] Front National in the secret hope of destabilising the left, which is supposed to be uncomfortable with such an issue. ... But such tactics and manoeuvring is unworthy of the office of president."
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A missed opportunity for the Socialists
Four Socialist MPs criticise their party's rejection of the constitutional reform in the daily Le Monde: "The adoption of the constitutional reform makes the strategy of the Socialist Party questionable. For ultimately it was not in a position to prevent or amend this reform. ... In fact the reform is intended to increase the power of the parliament and give citizens new rights ... The Socialist Party must question its strategy as an opposition party. Its disqualification comes from its inability to free itself from a kind of Pavlovian anti-Sarkozy reflex that makes it reject any project proposed by the president as a matter of course. This attitude is dangerous. ... It alienates the party from the French people, who no longer want to listen to a party that has become a caricature of an opposition."
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