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Regarding politics, the funniest time of the year is during election days. The CSA (Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel, that's the overarching organisation which controls content and ratings) requires that EVERY party must have an exact equal amount of time on TV, at reasonable hours (as much as I'd like the far-right to have a slot between 3 am and 4 am on a weekday, that's not possible). So we get hilarious hysteria about clocks and seconds and it's really more ridiculous than anything, even though I get the sentiment behind it. Technically, no party should be allowed to have more exposure because it has more money. Similarly, there are rules about subsidies to parties and political groups in the assembly, enough that we really had a good laugh a few weeks ago (it's going to be long, but hilarious. Well, for me it is, anyway.)

- So: the last president lost the election in May 2012 and is now touring the world with $100,000 conferences. His party, which he used to control, was left with plenty of people who were civil to each other when he was there but who hate each other's guts and want nothing more than to grind the other's face into the dirt. Possibly with steel-toed boots.

- They decided to have an election to choose the new leader of the party, in which every member could participate. There were 4 candidates originally, only 2 were really likely to win. On the right side: former secretary of the party, twitchy, simpering, downright scary man. On the less right side: former Prime Minister, sinister, rich, rather bland man.

- Election day came. It was the worst mess ever. One candidate claimed they had won. Then the other did. During the day there was evidence of fraud, heavy fraud. They all said nasty things to each other. The accountant of one side said there was fiscal fraud and left for the other side. A former Prime Minister stepped it and gave up in less than 24 hours (there was probably frustrated screaming involved). Former president said he would tell everyone they were incompetent twats if they didn't stop arguing (as if we didn't already know that). There were several organisations involved who were supposed to recount the votes, none of them said the same thing. Apparently some votes were forgotten.

- It lasted for days and days. At some point, one of them took the deputies who were favorable to him and created a new political group in the Assembly (RUMP, as it was lovingly called) and everyone kind of panicked because that would mean less money for the party.

- In the end: they've settled on doing a new election sometime soon. Now, yesterday, one of them held a meeting to say he intended to be the party's candidate for the presidential elections (in 4 YEARS). The other held a meeting with the party at the exact same time. So they're faking a nice solidarity when in fact what happened has made everyone hate each other even more than before. They have to put ADS in the papers to find candidates for the 2014 local elections.

The funniest thing is that they have squandered HOURS of their allotted speaking time on national media because of this.

Come to think of it, we have also rules about how much money an individual can give to a party. That's why our last president was accused (and it is still an ongoing case) of fraud during the 2007 election. But he's accused of plenty of other things as well... Like our other last president was, before charges were (mostly) dropped. He was from the same party. Created it, in fact.

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