Soirée électorale

[chani]

No films, no show tonight...well maybe a bit of "Carnivale" before the electoral evening.

We'll get the first results of the Referendum around 22.00.

Estimations

25% of abstention so far...French people did vote, but did they vote as I wished?

Hopefully they voted...

Comments

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Have you read the text? I did. It's nothing but a framework to ultra-free trade. Being a constitution it sanctifies what was decided by the treaty of Nice. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing who wrote the constitutional text has always been an ultra-freemarketeer btw.

That is not the Europe I want. It might be the last chance for the populations to say "no" to such sort of Europe and to initiate something else.

But of course I'm quite the left winger!

PS: the C&S is dead quiet...

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

No I haven't read the actual text. I was planning now I noticed your "non", because I value your opinion. What I did find about the constitution are small pieces on it saying it is based on certain humanistic values and the changes to the inner workings of the union, for instance giving more power to the parliament, which is a good thing, I think. Parliament has been able to hold back a couple of laws recently.

I do have the feeling media is rather positive about the constitution in Belgium. The only negative words on it are from other countries and we all can say "those people are different and strange" then. What also might be possible is that the image of Jean-Luc Dehaene plays. He's a bit of a wierd person, but people like him and trust him and he's totally pro constitution.

But like I said before: We can't vote. The governement likes to decide this thing for us. :-(

P.S.: I plead guilty... Haven't been to the C&S the last couple of days.