MEDIAWATCH FRANCE, Wed. 8/2/2011: We take a look at the Socialists' campaign tune and compare to similar efforts in previous decades. Are campaign jingles becoming increasingly meaningless? Also, journalists play the guessing game as to when Sarkozy will announce his candidacy for re-election. Finally, a French female minister gets "catty"...
It's the row in Parliament that's on all France's front pages - yesterday the whole government walked out for the first time in a century, after a Socialist MP effectively accused the interior minister of Nazism.
He’s shed the pounds, he’s dropped the jokes, but does the Socialist front-runner have what it takes to be French president? François Picard’s panel looks at a candidate who’s 20 points ahead in the polls but untested in such a race.
Two days after US President Barack Obama put tax reform at the heart of his re-election campaign, France's Socialist nominee François Hollande pledged to raise levies on banks, big firms and the rich to plough the country out of debt.
After a successful keynote speech last Sunday, Socialist leader François Hollande unveiled his platform today. So is he on his way to the Elysée? In any case, incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy is struggling in the polls, is faced with record unemployment and has even started musing about losing the election...
Socialist presidential candidate hopeful François Hollande is on a roll, while incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy is musing about life after politics. Also on the show, the French parliament ignites a diplomatic storm with Turkey over the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman empire.
French Socialist presidential contender Francois Hollande promised to raise taxes on the rich and cancel billions of euros in tax breaks in his policy launch speech Thursday. Hollande is vying to be France's first Socialist president in 17 years.
Seeking to build momentum against struggling incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy, French Socialist presidential contender Francois Hollande is set to unveil his 60 proposals Thursday for an ailing France.
French web users poking fun at the Socialist party’s latest campaign video. In the US, Ron Paul continues his campaign for the Republican nomination. And a Tasmanian inmate announces his intention to escape from prison in a Facebook post.
MEDIAWATCH FRANCE, Tues. 24/1/2012: "Le changement, c'est maintenant!" accompanied by a funky little arm movement. Is this the latest dance craze or the naffest political campaign imaginable? Or indeed a wily bid to get François Hollande into the subconscious of every French voter? Also, Hervé Morin claims he witnessed the Normandy Landings, despite being born in 1961.
