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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: OT SF Mythology
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:17:56 -0400
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Paul S Person wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 12:56:22 +1000, Mad Hamish
> <newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 08:55:39 -0700, Paul S Person
>> <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 07:59:02 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
>>> <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 16:39:47 +1200, Titus G wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Durandal a sword said to be indestructible, the sharpest of all blades,
>>>>> once wielded by the knight Roland under Charlemagne, and thenceforth
>>>>> stuck in stone for 1,300 years, has disappeared from a French village.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/france-excalibur-like-sword-durandal-
>>>> disappears-after-1300-years/
>>>>
>>>> This seems to be the Year of France. The Olympics, the completion
>>>> of repairs to Notre Dame (scheduled for December), the snap election
>>>> which my favorite newspapers are telling me is Very Important, etc.
>>>> Qu'est-ce que tu as d'autre ? (What else ya' got?)
>>>
>>> It'll be interesting to see how the winner-takes-all Parliamentary
>>> system copes with a situation in neither the Left, the Right, nor the
>>> Center has control. No winner, no gummint?
>>>
>>> Perhaps another snap election? Perhaps this will the start of the
>>> Decade of Snap Elections, kind of like the periods where the Romans
>>> went through 10 or so Emperors in two years or so, at least in terms
>>> of social stability.
>>>
>> >From what I have read, the evil Right was only defeated by many
>>> self-sacrificing candidates withdrawing so as to concentrate the
>>> anti-Right vote on whoever else was on the ballot. Sounds like
>>> cheating to me, but then, I am not French and so not aware of how they
>>> regard it.
>>
>> I'm not sure that anybody is under an obligation to run for
>> election...
> 
> These were already on the ballot and had participated in the first
> round.
> 
> They withdrew after the first round but before the second.
> 
> So clearly they were not under a /legal/ obligation to stay the
> course, but I would wonder about an ethical obligation to their Party
> and supporters. Well, I would if they were not French, anyway.

Well, it was the party asking them not to run, and the members seemed to 
be in support.

It's something of a crude way of getting a transferable ballot only 
instead of filling out (1) Centrist, (2) Leftist it takes two rounds of 
voting.

The result is that there will be nobody sitting in the chamber from a 
district which is 60% against him or her.  Unlike, for example, here.

William Hyde