Jacques Chirac’s presidency hit a new low Sunday when a poll revealed that most voters think he now has little or no influence over events at home or abroad.
The Chief wonders what their first clue was to this – the complete lack of any real influence over the course of events in Iraq (in spite of repeated verbal fulminatins about the US policies and actions, or the feckless response to the importaion of the jihadistani “Arab street” to the Ile de France, and elsewhere.
Of those polled, 72 percent regarded the influence of their president — who turns 73 today — over what happens in France as “weak.” Two-thirds said his clout on the world stage was feeble, while only 36 percent thought he held any significant sway over European politics.
Hmmmm. Maybe it was his failure to carry the ball for the Eurocratic constitution in the Froggish referendum on the same.
Whatever.
The sun is setting on the reign of Chirac.