Two buddies and bloggers Gabale Steph raised this issue for the presidential election and the wider political representation by social class.
Will we one day Lula French access to the highest offices of state? That's a funny question!
In the French political society, the success of Pierre Beregovoy from which the working class with a cap adjuster became prime minister of a leftist government under Francis Mitterrand is rather a rarity if not an exception. Indeed, the French political scene, only 1% of MPs are from the world of employees and workers as they represent over 50% of the workforce.
Conversely, managers and intellectual professions represent 59% of all members and if we add the professions, all approximately 75% of deputies to the National Assembly.
More than any other, it seems difficult for a worker or employee to combine hard work, family life, evening classes, and achieve a life activist to become a "leader" in his neighborhood, his city, a branch in its region. That is to say if those who can pursue advanced studies are "better off" by the level of knowledge and expertise acquired through their studies. To make up for this lack, someone from a lower class will whip hard and in all cases longer.
So inevitably it is questionable whether "equality" of opportunity for on this subject as the lower classes are limited in their political careers as forced to work quickly (at 18 before or very often) and who can not afford to pay often expensive and lengthy studies.
More than any other, it seems difficult for a worker or employee to combine hard work, family life, evening classes, and achieve a life activist to become a "leader" in his neighborhood, his city, a branch in its region. That is to say if those who can pursue advanced studies are "better off" by the level of knowledge and expertise acquired through their studies. To make up for this lack, someone from a lower class will whip hard and in all cases longer.
So inevitably it is questionable whether "equality" of opportunity for on this subject as the lower classes are limited in their political careers as forced to work quickly (at 18 before or very often) and who can not afford to pay often expensive and lengthy studies.
However, knowing that national representation is 3 / 4 consists of "higher intellectual classes", the employees and workers feel they perfectly represented by other than a local? Yes fortunately although unfortunately the populist temptation of some of the political class, it must be said fortunately a minority, suggests that politicians are "all rotten" just because they highlight some miscellaneous malfeasance, arrangements fully is reprehensible but thankfully a tiny minority and that can not make a generalization, each profession has its black sheep.
The elect of the nation irrespective of their political beliefs are intended to carry out the policy they want by saving ideas and their camp, they come from working class or level of graduate studies. The higher level of education is not a "well done" but probably allows our elected officials to take better than other economic dimension, social and political problems and then the political orientation, left, center or right does the rest. This is obviously not a good measure of success but if the studies were useless it is not.
So in our beautiful country, in theory, a political figure "out of range" may rise to the top job but it will take time, lots of personal investment, a desire to win more than anyone and also win the trust and "prove" its value to the political party to which he belongs. In the state forces in the presence and function of a bipolar political life in France, it is better to be a member of the UMP and the Socialist Party to get there.
To succeed, a candidate for a graduate level must obviously be close to the people and their concerns In 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy, modest lawyer, had succeeded in attracting the votes of humble people, the retirees by promising a better life by working more or increasing the retirement pensions and safety of people and goods. In 2012 the song may well be different because of the lies Nicolas Sarkozy were experienced as a betrayal by some of his constituents and it is not surprising that they make him pay.
Among the likely and Possible candidates for 2012, the left has different profiles, the "philosopher" Jean-Luc Melenchon to Enarque Segolene Royal, through the graduate of HEC Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the panel of graduates is broad if there included Eva Joly and his DEA in political science and Olivier Besancenot and his degree in history.
The left candidate who will attend the second round of the presidential election against the candidate of the right will probably among this list. He must forge with the people a strong link, a link that will be the candidate of the people. (On) a candidate (s) that will convince them demonstrating that change is possible. Policy by the evidence is not an invention but a reality to prove that what is said is done and I know a person who leads this policy is Segolene Royal.
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