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J’ai vraiment l’impression qu’on est en train de transformer le Parti socialiste en une pétaudière. ... Il y a une espèce d’autisme de nos dirigeants politiques qui est proprement insupportable.

[I really have the impression that the Socialist Party is becoming a free-for-all [and this and this and this and most hilariously this]. … There is a sort of autism among our political leaders that is just insufferable.]

Jean-Christophe Cambadelis,
PS député pour la 20ème circonscription de Paris
(19ème arrondissement),
describing a Socialist Party that believes itself
best qualified to lead France
17 mai 2008 (France Info, Radio France)

Ségo, the first-vagina-within-six-points-of-the-Élysée™, launches her bid for leadership of the PS. [Pause.] Again.

ROYAL RELANCE LA GUERRE DES CHEFS AU PS
[ROYAL RELAUNCHES THE WAR OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY CHIEFS]
19 mai 2008 (Figaro)

FRANCE'S ROYAL LAUNCHES SOCIALIST LEADERSHIP BID

PARIS May 17, 2008 (IHT/Reuters) - Last year's defeated French presidential candidate [and this and this] Segolene Royal, 54, has officially launched her bid to become leader of the Socialist Party, as a power struggle within the deeply-divided camp heats up.

Royal remarked at a Paris meeting late on Friday later broadcast on French TV:

If the party members so decide and consider it useful for the Socialist Party, then I will accept with joy and determination this wonderful mission to become head of the party.

But of course it's not clear whether the party members will find her appointment useful, her joy contagious, or her determination convincing.

Some members of the Socialist Party, reinvigorated after making large gains during local elections in March, immediately criticised Royal's leadership bid on Saturday.

PFFT (What is this?): Usefulness ½ | Joyousness 0 | Determination ½ | Rayonnement français 0