Not everyone is happy with Mlle. Royal's ascension as a national candidate.

THE SITE THAT CURES YOU OF SÉGOLÈNE ROYAL
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PARIS November 17, 2006 (AFP) - A new website attacking Ségolène Royal as a political disease to be cured launched in France Friday within hours of her presidential candidacy triumph in a Socialist Party primary.

... The group behind the website says it is composed of political activists, many of whom belong to centrist and right-wing parties. They have banded together to show "the incompetence and lack of stature Ségolène Royal has to assume the job of president".

The Ségostop site details what it sees as Mlle. Royal's political defects and vacuities. For example, we learn that Mlle. Royal accounts for only 0.4% of the Socialist topical addresses to the government (3 of 737), 0.1% of the Assemblée nationale ("AN") total (3 of 2,970). And out of 577 deputies in the AN, Mlle. Royal is ranked 469th (bottom quintile) overall based on the number of interventions in session. Out of 142 Socialist deputies, she is ranked 129th (bottom decile). The site does give Mlle. Royal her due in written questions submitted to the government (299), which handily beats the average (199).

Pave does not have a problem necessarily with a legislator that doesn't much legislate. In settled democracies much law is busy work, something to keep legislators occupied and fill calendars with working lunches. An abundance of laws tend to confound, not aid, governance. And since much law is junk law, poorly conceived and badly crafted (most especially French law, see here, here, here, and here), less law is surely better than more law.

Rather than legislation and policy Mlle. Royal has not assayed, we find defects aplenty in the legislation and policy Mlle. Royal actually advocates.

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