 | Posted on the off-chance that France matters. |
PARIS - Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal, trailing in the opinion polls and struggling to kick start her gaffe-prone campaign, unveiled 100 proposals on Sunday that she said would make France a more regulated stronger, fairer place.
Termed ‘the laundry list presidential pact’, the policies were drawn up from the Socialist Manifesto following weeks of nationwide debates and concentrate primarily on social, economic and environmental issues. The pact contained promises to boost ‘small pensions’ by five percent, to re-negotiate and ‘consolidate’ the 35-hour work week, to increase the minimum wage and establish military-type boot camp to deal with young offenders.
| More of the same from the socialists, in other words. She could have written this forty years ago. It's the same, tired, stale rhetoric and policy proposals. How ... 1960. |
She also included controversial plans to set up ‘ Committee of Public Safety citizen juries’ to evaluate the work of parliamentarians, give parents a greater choice over where to school their children and do more to regulate bank fees.
| It's like a Chinese restaurant menu. One from column A, two from column B ... |
‘Today I offer you the presidential pact. One hundred proposals for France to rediscover a shared ambition, pride and fraternity,’ Royal will tell a mass rally on Sunday, according to the text of a speech released ahead of time. |