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Dear Friend, We have never voted the same way and yet I understand you completely. Or rather, I understand those who, like you, believe in the liberal right.

Since this « perspective » is the last one before the second round of the French presidential election, I must say to those who do me the honor of reading me what is my choice, inviting them to reflect on it before making their own.

So, now is the time of the main French political choice.

The loss of France’s triple A could, If we get it right, become some great news. It could provide the small stimulus, needed to make us finally understand the gravity of the situation, become indignant against it and refuse to comply with it.

So, we are told that European democracies would die soon. They would have passed, at best, under the control of technocrats from Brussels or Frankfurt; at worst, under that of markets. And all this, of course, would be the fault of the euro, the European Union, the banks and many other people. Not ours.

The worst thing that could happen to France at the moment is to be at the start of a presidential campaign and to have a president eligible for reelection. While the French State must take some really serious decisions, political elites will be at each other’s throats for six months on programs made obsolete day after day by a rapidly changing situation.