French Elections - ISN article

international | politics / elections | other press Tuesday May 08, 2007 17:06 by Apparat - ISN irishsocialistnetwork at dublin dot ie

Olivier Besancenot, Jose Bove, the PCF, and more!

Whether or not there is a regroupment of the centre-left, the radical left will have to confront the challenge of building a new political force that can challenge the PS.

The long-term decline of the French Communist Party has continued. A party that could win 20% of the vote in national elections until the 1980s saw its candidate humiliated, with a score below 2%. Since 1981, the French CP has lost 600,000 members and 15,000 elected representatives, a staggering decline.

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