Pave: Loathsome Ten

Le jour 45 de Sarko

LE "TOP TEN" DES POLITIQUES LES PLUS DÉTESTÉS
[THE "TOP TEN" MOST HATED POLITICIANS]

29 juin 2007 (Figaro) - RMC a demandé à l’institut Novatris une enquête sur les élus les moins aimés des Français. Si les Le Pen, père et fille, figurent sans surprise en tête du classement, on y trouve aussi José Bové, Eric Besson ou… François Hollande.

Si les sondages mensurant la cote de popularité des élus sont légion, il est plus rare de demander aux Français lesquels… ils détestent le plus. RMC a demandé à l’institut Novatris d’effectuer cette mesure, et voici le résultat :

[Radio Monte-Carlo commissioned a survey from the Novatris Institute on the the least-loved elected French officials. If the Le Pens, father and daughter, at the top of the ranking are no surprise, one also finds José Bové, Eric Besson, even... François Hollande.

If surveys ranking the popularity of elected officials are legion, it is rarer to ask the French which ones... they hate the most. RMC asked the Novatris Institute to find out, and here is the result:]

1. Jean-Marie Le Pen [and here]
M. Le Pen, FN, is the bad boy of the far right. President of the FN, he is the party's perrennial presidential candidate (5x). He is also a former AN deputy for la Seine and is currently an MEP. M. Le Pen's noisy anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, and revenant pétainisme make him something of a standout even among anti-Semitic, racist, xenophobic, and nostalgically pétainiste Frenchies.

2. Marine Le Pen
Mdm. Le Pen, FN, the spawn of the above bad boy, is currently an MEP. As an FN vice president she has tried to steer the FN into mainstream politics, though this has only lost the FN support from its base.

3. Alain Carignon
M. Carignon, L'UMP, is a former mayor of Grenoble, a former deputy for Isère, and a former minister of the environment, in which capacity he lied to the public about the contamination to France following the 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Rounding out his career in politics, he is also a felon. Convicted for corruption in office (abus de biens sociaux) and subornation, he was fined 400,000₣, sentenced to five years in prison (serving less than two), and banned from holding office for 5 years. He lost his recent comeback bid as deputy of Isère to a Socialist and currently holds no elected office.

4. Philippe de Villiers
M. de Villiers, MPF, is a former AN deputy for la Vendée, a former Conseil Général de la Vendée, a former minister of culture (Secrétaire d'Etat auprès du Ministre de la Culture). He is currently an MEP.

5. Arno Klarsfeld
M. Klarsfeld, L'UMP, has never held -- and was recently rejected for -- elected office.

6. Laurent Fabius [and here]
M. Fabius, PS, is the mayor of Grand-Quevilly (Seine-Maritime), the AN deputy for Seine-Maritime, a former prime minister, a former minister of several portfolios (industry, research, and economy, finance, and industry), a former president of the AN, and a former first secretary of the PS. His larger political ambitions have been frustrated by a bad comb-over.

7. Patrick Devedjian
M. Devedjian, L'UMP, is a former mayor of Antony (Hauts-de-Seine), a former AN deputy for Hauts-de-Seine (4x), a former minister of industry, and is currently the Président du conseil général des Hauts-de-Seine.

8. Eric Besson [and here]
M. Besson, formerly PS, is the mayor of Donzère and AN deputy for Drôme (without affiliation), and the minister for forward planning and assessment of public policies (Secrétaire d’État à la prospective et évaluation des politiques publiques) in the current Fillon government.

9. François Hollande [and here and here]
The first secretary of the Parti socialiste, M. Hollande is also the mayor of Tulle and the AN deputy for Corrèze.

10. José Bové
M. Bové is not a member of any party and has never been elected to any public office. He is a thrice-convicted felon, so the confusion with elected office is understandable.

Ten berths hardly does justice to French loathings.

And where are Pave's faves? Loathsome Dom never held elected office, but loathsome Jack certainly did. How could they not have made this list? [Pause.] Two and one, respectively.

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