Talk:Cumul des mandats

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A fact from Cumul des mandats appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on June 5, 2007.
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[edit] cumul in French government

I added a section about the practice of cumul in French government, as this is a part of French politics where things are (slowly) moving. I (of course) tried to make it as NPOV as possible (I have a bias, being a member of the Socialist Party (France)). Also note that mentioning Bérégovoy (now dead for 14 years) is a bit of stale news, while Ségolène Royal will in a matter of days have to be removed (she's not a candidate for the upcoming general elections).

The headline in the Main Page is a bit POV though: it quotes Ségolène but not the current President Sarkozy, who has a very rich history of cumul (mayor of Neuilly, head of Hauts-de-Seine, minister or deputy). Perhaps it could be better formulated as: "did you know that both leading candidates in the 2007 presidential elections, Ségolène Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy, practiced the cumul des mandats...". (The subject is still hot as, as I said, there's an upcoming general election on Sunday, and both of them are leading their parties). Jérôme Plût 07:20, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, I think the content about Royal and Bérégovoy should still be able to remain in the article as instances of prominent politicians that more causal observers may know. I didn't mean it as a POV thing, since my personal beliefs would be more towards yours, just only as in she happened to be the one I mentioned in the article so she was included, if anything more to balance with the conservative Chirac. matt91486 23:59, 6 June 2007 (UTC)