French presidential Socialist primary, second round on Sunday. Benoît Hamon & Manuel Valls.

Primaire de la gauche : à trois jours du second tour, le match des meetings entre Benoît Hamon et Manuel Valls.

Les deux finalistes de la primaire de la gauche ont rassemblé leurs partisans jeudi soir en région parisienne. Franceinfo compare les deux rendez-vous. Their last rallies before Sunday were held last night. FranceInfo compares.

Les deux finalistes de la primaire de la gauche, Benoît Hamon et Manuel Valls, en meeting à Montreuil et Alfortville à trois jours du second tour, le 26 janvier 2016.
Les deux finalistes de la primaire de la gauche, Benoît Hamon (Left) et Manuel Valls (Right), en meeting à Montreuil et Alfortville à trois jours du second tour, le 26 janvier 2016. (AFP) Their rallies were held in Montrueil and Alfortville, with only three days to their second and last chance to be the Partie Socialist nomination to contest the Presidency.

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Les deux finalistes de la primaire de la gauche n’étaient séparés que par une dizaine de kilomètres, jeudi 26 janvier, et pourtant, ils ont semblé de plus en plus éloignés dans leur discours. A trois jours du second tour, Manuel Valls à Alfortville (Val-de-Marne) et Benoît Hamon à Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) ont rassemblé une nouvelle fois leurs supporters. L’occasion de détailler encore leur projet. Franceinfo, présent aux meetings des deux candidats, joue au jeu des comparaisons. The two finalists assembled only a few tens of kilometers, (North and NW of Paris) but they held their last rallies last night to elaborate on their programmes.

Les soutiens : petit avantage Valls: Support: small advantage Valls.

Chez Manuel Valls. Au premier rang, on retrouve Claude Bartolone, le président de l’Assemblée nationale, Sylvia Pinel, la présidente du PRG, les secrétaires d’Etat Christian Eckert et Pascale Boistard, et quelques parlementaires, pour la plupart des “réformateurs” du PS comme Christophe Caresche et François Loncle. Peu de poids lourds donc…

Being the former PM he would expect a good show from his PS colleagues. Present were the president of the national assembly, three department secretaries, and some parliamentarians, considered PS reformers. But not many heavyweights..He had approximately 600 attendees. Having finished in second place behind his opponent in the first round of the primary, he was somewhat abandoned by supporters and colleagues last night.

Chez Benoît Hamon. Il ne fallait pas chercher des membres du gouvernement au meeting du député des Yvelines, mais le candidat peut malgré tout se targuer d’avoir réuni différentes sensibilités de la gauche à l’image de l’écologiste Mounir Satouri, conseiller EELV de la région Ile-de-France. La gauche du PS y est surtout représentée, avec notamment Marie-Noëlle Lienemann et Gérard Filoche, qui n’avait pas pu se présenter à la primaire.

Not many members of the government showed up last night but there was a strong showing from a wide variety of party members. This is looked upon as a unifying force for the PS and a nod in the direction of the former minister for Education. Some 3,000 turned up, among them many young left wing members of the party, and some senior members , who supported Manuel Valls in the first round. Also supporters turned up who sat on the fence during the first round. Although she didn’t attend, some members close to Martine Aubrey, showed up. On attende le dimanche soir avec impatience.

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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