vendredi 3 mai 2002
To that I say: thank you."
I was in that demonstration. I have never seen that many people. Too many to count, something between 500,000 and a million.
And the atmosphere was quiet and friendly. Lots of youth too young to vote and coming 'cause there's no other way for them to voice their opinion. Lots of older people, who actually know things that can be done by the kind of people we were protesting against.
Now we have to vote again on Sunday. No opinion polls are published, they failed so miserably in the first round that they are just keeping quiet.
I just hope that Chirac's victory will be so huge that it will have no political value in terms of the usual right/left oposition. Just like Bush's victory is so close that it has no such value. And all Chirac will have to do is live up to the historical responsibility, which I don't think too much about because I'm not convinced he's up to the task and I might just put in a blank vote.
