Faire ratifier le nouveau traité européen par les Assemblées, et cela dès le mois de décembre, tel est le projet de Nicolas Sarkozy. Le Président veut aller vite et priver le peuple français du droit élémentaire de décider souverainement de son avenir.
Son clan prétend que le vote majoritaire qui l’a élu en mai tient lieu de referendum ! Comme si les électeurs lui avaient donné un blanc-seing sur un texte qui n’était pas, alors, rédigé et donc inconnu ! En fait, les commentateurs politiques doivent reconnaître que le refus de donner la parole au peuple est motivé par la « prudence », c’est-à-dire la crainte d’un nouveau scrutin de rejet.
Une fois suffit, considère l’oligarchie qui accapare le pouvoir et qui est hostile à une France libre. La propagande officielle, relayée par les médias, presque tous aux mains de la finance mondialisée, avance un second argument : cette fois, il ne s’agit plus de constitution. L’accord signé à Lisbonne par les dirigeants des 27 Etats de l’Union européenne ne serait plus qu’un ‘mini traité’, ‘simplifié’ par surcroît (le texte compte 256 pages …), qui ne porterait que sur son organisation administrative.
Ses symboles, tels le drapeau étoilé et son hymne, ont disparu. Pour rassurer davantage, on prétend mensongèrement que la référence au «marché libre et non faussé » est passée à la trappe. Cette mise en scène vise à désintéresser les citoyens et à semer la confusion : ‘Circulez, il n’y a rien à voir!’.
La vérité est autre. Tous les gouvernements fédéralistes et tous ceux qui refusent la souveraineté populaire et qui avaient encensé le projet de constitution (Giscard d’Estaing, en tête), se déclarent plus que satisfaits du texte élaboré à Lisbonne. Ils ne cachent pas qu’ils y voient une revanche aux Non français et néerlandais de 2005.
De leur point de vue, ils ont raison. Tous les traités signés depuis Maastricht, ceux d’Amsterdam, de Barcelone, de Lisbonne déjà, demeurent la pierre angulaire de la politique économique et anti-sociale de l’Union européenne.
Le « marché libre », « la concurrence » à tout va, la réduction du coût du travail et toute l’idéologie néo-libérale restent le fondement du nouveau traité, véritable constitution européenne en contrebande. Tous les peuples d’Europe en font les frais : la pauvreté, la misère même, gagnent chaque année du terrain.
L’accord de Lisbonne permettrait, s’il était appliqué, d’accentuer le processus : par une centralisation accrue (un Président de l’Union qui parlerait au nom de tous), et un système de vote majoritaire au sein des instances qui serait imposé aux nations récalcitrantes.
Ainsi, le Pouvoir en France, chaque jour plus autoritaire, voudrait priver les citoyens de leur droit imprescriptible de décider de leur avenir. Le Comité Valmy, estime qu’il est de l’intérêt du peuple de France d’ imposer sa consultation par un nouveau referendum.
La voie parlementaire dans ce cas précis, c’est le moyen par excellence de museler la voix des Français.
La majorité automatique acquise, par la manipulation des Français, au parti du Président, tant à l’Assemblée nationale qu’au Sénat, fausse toute représentativité réelle de notre peuple.
Forces républicaines et progressistes, Français fidèles à la souveraineté populaire et nationale, unissons nous pour exiger un referendum.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Thai PM Declares Victory In Referendum: AFP
BANGKOK - Thailand's army-installed government declared victory Sunday in a referendum on a new constitution and vowed to hold general elections by year's end to restore democracy following last September's coup.
Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont claimed victory after exit polls showed that nearly 68 percent of Thai voters had approved the charter, with at least two-thirds of the nation's 45 million eligible voters casting ballots.
"We consider that this constitution has been approved by the people, and by the end of August the constitution will be submitted to the king for endorsement," Surayud said on national television.
"Overall, the turnout was more than 50 percent. I thank the Thai people for coming out to exercise their vote," he said.
Sunday's vote was the first test at the ballot box for the ruling junta, which ousted elected premier Thaksin Shinawatra in a bloodless coup last September.
Surayud, who had said the country's first-ever referendum would help put the nation back on track after more than a year of turmoil, reaffirmed that with the approval of the charter, general elections would be held by year's end.
"I reaffirm that the election will be held late this year. The exact date is still under consideration, but I believe the most suitable date is after the king's birthday" on December 5, he said.
"What the public has to do next is to learn about the political parties' platforms, and the public must participate in the next general election late this year," he said.
The prime minister was speaking about 30 minutes after polling stations had closed, and before any early returns had been released by election officials. Preliminary results were due later Sunday.
Although the military has insisted the charter will clear a path to elections, the new constitution also outlines amnesty for the generals who toppled Thaksin.
Even when elections are held, critics say the new charter will return control of government to traditional power centres in the military, the bureaucracy and the royal palace.
All three institutions have played key roles in most of Thailand's turbulent political history, which has seen 24 prime ministers and 18 coups over the last 75 years.
Thaksin, who since the coup has lived in exile in Britain where he has bought the Manchester City football club, has called the draft "fruit from a poisoned tree."
His youngest daughter Paethongtan was the only member of his immediate family still in Thailand and able to vote. She cast her ballot dressed entirely in black, telling reporters only that her father "misses Thailand a lot."
Opponents, including Thaksin supporters and democracy advocates, have been campaigning against the charter, warning it will trim the powers of elected leaders.
They say the new constitution rolls back reforms included in the previous 1997 charter, and could set the stage for fragile coalition governments that would fall under the military's sway.
Campaigning has been tilted heavily in the direction of the government, with half the country still under martial law and a new law threatening prison for anyone convicted of obstructing the referendum.(AFP)
Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont claimed victory after exit polls showed that nearly 68 percent of Thai voters had approved the charter, with at least two-thirds of the nation's 45 million eligible voters casting ballots.
"We consider that this constitution has been approved by the people, and by the end of August the constitution will be submitted to the king for endorsement," Surayud said on national television.
"Overall, the turnout was more than 50 percent. I thank the Thai people for coming out to exercise their vote," he said.
Sunday's vote was the first test at the ballot box for the ruling junta, which ousted elected premier Thaksin Shinawatra in a bloodless coup last September.
Surayud, who had said the country's first-ever referendum would help put the nation back on track after more than a year of turmoil, reaffirmed that with the approval of the charter, general elections would be held by year's end.
"I reaffirm that the election will be held late this year. The exact date is still under consideration, but I believe the most suitable date is after the king's birthday" on December 5, he said.
"What the public has to do next is to learn about the political parties' platforms, and the public must participate in the next general election late this year," he said.
The prime minister was speaking about 30 minutes after polling stations had closed, and before any early returns had been released by election officials. Preliminary results were due later Sunday.
Although the military has insisted the charter will clear a path to elections, the new constitution also outlines amnesty for the generals who toppled Thaksin.
Even when elections are held, critics say the new charter will return control of government to traditional power centres in the military, the bureaucracy and the royal palace.
All three institutions have played key roles in most of Thailand's turbulent political history, which has seen 24 prime ministers and 18 coups over the last 75 years.
Thaksin, who since the coup has lived in exile in Britain where he has bought the Manchester City football club, has called the draft "fruit from a poisoned tree."
His youngest daughter Paethongtan was the only member of his immediate family still in Thailand and able to vote. She cast her ballot dressed entirely in black, telling reporters only that her father "misses Thailand a lot."
Opponents, including Thaksin supporters and democracy advocates, have been campaigning against the charter, warning it will trim the powers of elected leaders.
They say the new constitution rolls back reforms included in the previous 1997 charter, and could set the stage for fragile coalition governments that would fall under the military's sway.
Campaigning has been tilted heavily in the direction of the government, with half the country still under martial law and a new law threatening prison for anyone convicted of obstructing the referendum.(AFP)
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