[syndicate] FW: Dernière minute - Urgent : Les Pays-Bas rejettent le traité constitutionnel européen

[Peter Luining]

ohnoqt at yahoo.com wrote:
> How do you explain the fact that large majority of people who voted as you did (no), are very fond of populist, raciste and conservative ideas ? 
> 


Polls after the French vote show that this explanation is
wildly incorrect:

http://www.humanite.fr/journal/2005-05-31/2005-05-31-635521

Key paragraph:

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According to SOFRES [a polling institution], the "no" voters made
their decision because "this treaty will exacerbate unemployment in
France" (46%), "to show they're fed up with the current situation"
(40%), "a 'no' vote will make it possible to renegotiate the treaty"
(35%), "this treaty is too neoliberal" (34%), "this treaty is
particularly difficult to understand (34%), "Europe threatens France's
identity" (19%) or "because of Turkey" (18%).  Among these reasons,
issues of social protection and opposition to neoliberalism are
clearly far ahead of xenophobic tendencies and worries about national
sovereignty.  This is confirmed by the IPSOS poll, according to which
the three main reasons for the "no" vote are dissatisfaction with the
current economic and social situation in France (52%), the view that
the proposed treaty is "too neoliberal" (40%) and confidence in being
able to get a better constitution after a renegotiation (39%).  One
last proof that at the heart of the "no" vote is the desire for
another sort of Europe: according to most of the polling institutions,
a very large majority of "no" voters (64% according to CSA) want
France to ask for a new European constitution to be written.
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