Three years before the French presidential elections in spring 2012, political parties goes into running order. The launching, last February 26, of several online platforms by the centrist party "Modem" is the latest illustration. The american election experience help to understand that it is impossible to have an effective Internet strategy only six months before an election and that, as underlined by the centrist leader François Bayrou in an interview, "we have to build a community of people (... ) to gather all the intelligence, listening to their ideas and if necessary provide a translation policy.
http://www.edemocracy-forum.com/2009/03/french-politicians.html
