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Former President tack50
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« on: November 24, 2020, 11:24:33 AM »

Why would the PS rename itself? They've been under that name for ages, wouldn't the heritage be a better tradeoff than whatever minor gains they could get from renaming themselves to "Democratic Party" or something? (especially when Socialism is not a dirty word in France or anything)

Granted, I guess that would have also applied to their old SFIO name, but given how the Workers' International had long been disbanded at that point I don't think the comparison is good.
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« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2021, 02:36:12 PM »

It's something of a truism in polling that you can find a majority in favour of holding a referendum on just about any subject you want. So in this case, C"News" commissioning a poll on this is just a partisan attempt to push the public discourse in a direction that is closer its own fantastical obsessions.

As it is France already has basically the lowest level of immigration of every Western European country, and net migration that is barely positive, so it's not like they have especially much to complain about on the subject.

To be fair, perhaps asking more directly "Do you think that immigration to France should be more heavily restricted?" or something along those lines would make for a better poll but given trends in France I am fairly convinced that the result of the poll (or a hypothetical referendum) would be "yes".

Also, is France really a place that isn't attracting immigrants at all? France isn't exactly the wealthiest Western European economy or the one with the best job market but the situation there is still pretty good and most immigrants, or at least the ones that people "worry about" (ie refugees from Africa and the Middle East); in many cases speak French as their own native language or as a 2nd language.
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« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2021, 07:44:11 AM »

Spain did that nationwide shortly before Paris. I haven't seen anyone respecting them and I myself also really don't tbh.
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