The French presidential elections are in two weeks four days and it sounds like a secondary issue, given the current state of the Universe! Incl. Russian massacres in Ukraine and Mali… Today Last week’s Le Monde had a comparative list of programs and promises for all twelve candidates, some of which I found hilariously absurd, in a sort of surrealist poem:
- abolish presidential elections
- abolish regions
- abolish bank privacy
- abolish State medical aid (AME)
- abolish public debt for European countries
- abolish tax evasion
- abolish foreign language initiation in primary schools
- abolish student selection by universities
- create a French Google
- create a French State microprocessor company
- create five State museums abroad
- create a Civil Code for animals
- disassemble all existing wind turbines and prohibit new ones
- expel jobless aliens
- free all political prisoners
- increase birds by 10%
- nationalise all forests larger than 20 hectares
- open a prison in the Kerguelen Islands for terrorist prisoners
- prohibit concrete
- prohibit overtime
- prohibit horse meat
- prohibit layoffs
- prohibit political judges unions
- prohibit ideological teaching at school
- reduce parking tickets to 17€
- recruit 90,000 (10%) new teachers
- support stable cryptocurrencies
- terminate the obsession with inclusion
- train 500,000 extra code developers
(The challenge being to identify which candidate(s) supports which measure.)
