French leaders (is that an oxymoron?) are in trouble, but they aren’t going without a whimper.
Dominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin, France’s embattled PM is going the way of the dodo. After calling an opposition MP a coward in the French House, he later apologized but is taking a beating in the polls. You have to know that things are bad in France when they start calling themselves cowards – is DdP trying to scoop me?
But wait, there’s more! Poor old Villepin is having a little bit of trouble over the Clearstream scandal. The fallout of this will be his inevitable firing at the hands of ‘honest’ Jacques Chirac, who has a few of his own worries right now without putting up with Villepin and his wobbly spine politics.
‘Bye Dominique, don’t let the door hit you on the way out….
His Presidential counterpart, the ever stoic Jacques Chirac is also having a bad week. He was called out for deliberately blocking Lebanon from the annual Francophone summit (you’d think they would need as many as possible to support their dying language, but Jacques knows better). Also, Chirac’s secret agenda for French Imperialism was revealed by a court that found him to have given at least ‘tacit approval’ for a coup of the ex-French Comoros islands. Poor Jacques.
All of this activity, while providing much entertainment for people like me does have a dark side. France must wait a little longer for some leaders that can fix what ails them – their current crew is busy being accused of dirty deals, illegal coups and moderately bad language.
Vive La France, non?
