Unis avec Bové
The oddest petition (presentation values) I've ever seen was posted on the 6th. Its for José Bové to be the single candidate of a rather difficult to unify French anti-liberal left. The leaderships of nearly every political party lined up behind the "Oui" for the Draft European Constitution, the exception of note was the French Communist Party. Even the leadership of Les Vertes bet on private capital rather than public policy to accomplish a European Green. Yet when the ballots were counted, the "Non" vote had won.
The nonists have been trying to unite to present a single candidate, and so make it to the second round of the French presidentials this year, in a field dominated by a fright-and-order mainstream right male, a triangulating fashionable mainstream left female, and a dozen lesser candidates, including, awkwardly enough, the head of the PCF, who's cadres want ran for movement continuation more than they want a single non-PCF candidate to make it to the second round.
The site of the petition is here. Take a look, if only to see how different things can be. The cms is Spip the flying squirrel (no relation to Rocky), and if you are a national of the French Republic, and neo-liberalism gets you all chocked up, like tear gas on a warm spring day at the picket line, or any morning at an aunti-nuke demo, you may want to consider signing the petition.