5 wishes for the "MoDem"

• 24 August 2007 at 16:51
• Tombé pour la France, Politik Pop

Lancelot, French blogger, continued MIP's "chain", which is about making 5 wishes for the Mouvement Démocrate (a.k.a. Modem). I am not a militant but I voted for Bayrou, so let's go.

• First, I wish for the MoDem to define a ideology that is clear, capable of shaking things in French politics and ending this kind of "double unique thought" that left and right represent. The project must also be innovating because no party better than this one can do something new, given its age (a few months old) and the fact that it doesn't have to suffer from left or right dogmatisms. Finally, the movement's values must gather people and not forget anyone, either it's a middle-class chick, a bloke from the suburbs or a farmer. It will also have to gather people from the left and the right (I know, it's a long wish, but it's important!)
• The MoDem must look towards the future, for the environment, research, new technologies, third world, social transformations (I'm thinking of gay marriage) but also globalisation, and its position as a party in Europe.
• The MoDem must be capable of raising a new generation of politicians, not for the sake of having young people, just because the path is going to be long.
• I urge the MoDem to never ever accept Ségolène Royal among them or to unite with her! I am okay for l'ouverture, to open the gates to the left or to the right but, for pity's sake, not her! (Sorry, I had to bitch a bit!)
• Finally, a good score at the municipal elections and to the following polls. The current voting system, with the illusion of the PSLE (party of centrists who left Bayrou for Sarkozy) tear the real center apart, let's hope the Socialist Party keeps on falling and that the centre becomes a credible and viable alternative.

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