Alone and unpopular, France’s Hollande throws in the towel.
France24: French President François Hollande said on Thursday he would not seek re-election next year, bowing to historically low approval ratings after a troubled term in power.
The withdrawal means the 62-year-old Socialist leader is the first president of France‘s fifth republic, founded in 1958, to step aside after only one term.
“I have decided that I will not be a candidate,” a stony-faced Hollande said in a solemn televised statement from the Élysée Palace in Paris during which he defended his record.
He conceded that he was unable to unite his deeply divided Socialist Party behind his candidacy ahead of the presidential election in April and May next year.
“In the months to come, my only duty will be to continue to lead my country,” he said. read more
Sorry, froggy. I thought socialism was on the ascendancy. Guess not. You probably shouldn’t have let your country be overrun by murderous muzzie cavemen either. There’s a price to be paid for that dumbass move also.
He and Merkel can go off and commit suicide together.
Perhaps he peered into the “Other People’s Money” kitty and saw it was all gone.
Imagine…a Frenchman taking a powder when the shit starts getting real.
You never see that.
This probably didn’t help his reelection either:
“…Castro embodied Cuba’s revolution in both its “hopes” and its later “disappointments”, French President Francois Hollande said in a statement after the veteran revolutionary’s death was announced.
“An actor of the Cold War … he represented, for Cubans, pride in rejecting external domination,” Hollande added, alluding to Castro’s defiance of the US…”
Socialism is nothing more than a circular firing squad – eventually it kills itself.
Mad Jack: We can build them a special socialist bunker to crawl into. Worked for Hitler. Cool.
“… my only duty will be to continue to lead my country …”
“into the Abyss.” He left out.
izlamo delenda est …
Watching Socialistic dictators and dycktasters falling on their knees before the guillotine blade falls on their necks is a “happy feet gotta dance” thing.
I’ll give him credit for at least knowing when to quit!
That’s the difference between mis-guided ignorance, and a deliberate, treasonous effort to weaken, if not destroy, a Nation on the part of a Treasury-looting, economy-wrecking, healthcare-destroying, backstabbing, stone-walling, wildly spending, dope-smoking, momjeans-wearing, shame gland missing, Peace Prize-Stealing, monument-Barrycading, process-circumventing, Benghazi bullshitting, Constitution-stomping, scrawny, little, sheet-grabbing, pillow-biting, stair-prancing, Gay-obsessed, Communist Organizing, phoney-baloney plastic-banana republic, lame Marxist Muzlim Mallard!
I’m sorry but a Rat Finksplosion cannot be beat. Six thumbs up. Psst. I had to harvest 4 thumbs from two liberals that I snuffed to get to 4 more thumbs up. But I’ve got six thumbs up.
Hmmm. None of the above is true. But two thumbs up wasn’t dramatic enough.
Alright I dindunuffin 3 thumbs up. There’s still a story behind it.
Once I make it up. But still. I loves me some ratfink rants.
Aaaaah. iPhone and bourbon and Friday night recklessness not good.
I lost track of the number of thumbs.
PHenry, I’ll loan you my two thumbs!
Oh, wait. One thumb. I already used the other one on Rat Fink’s rant!