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We may like to diss the French…

Posted By Roger L Simon On May 29, 2005 @ 12:24 pm In Uncategorized | 115 Comments

… but their voting percentages [1] put ours to shame (although not readers of blogs, I assume, who probably vote in even higher percentages).

UPDATE: According to the WSJ [2], the French have overwhelmingly rejected the proposed European Union constitution. It is hard to imagine how Chirac will recover from this.

PARIS — The French decisively rejected the European Union’s proposed new constitution, plunging the bloc into political paralysis and putting at least a temporary break on five decades of movement toward an ever-stronger pan-European government.

President Jacques Chirac said in a televised address late Sunday that he would decide later this week whether to shuffle his cabinet in response to the vote, which amounted to a bitter personal defeat for the French leader. A staunch supporter of the constitution, he conceded that his countrymen had spurned the charter, after partial official results indicated that the “no” vote was carrying the day by a margin of 57% to 43%.

“It is your decision, it is your sovereign decision, and I take note of it,” he said.

Please, do.

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[1] percentages: http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2005/05/29/afx2063244.html

[2] WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111735108573645919,00.html

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