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Glez' Blue Wave flag - Image by Ivan Sache, 29 November 2002
In France, the blue colour is traditionally associated with the
conservative parties. The big success obtained by these parties
during the spring 2002 legislative election was nicknamed the
"blue wave" (vague bleue).
Courrier International #610 (28 November 2002) shows a
cartoon by Glez, originally published in Le Journal du Jeudi
(Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso), on which the
French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin is represented waving a
Tricolor flag with stripes "reflecting" the current political
situation.
Of course, the colours of the French
national flag do not have any specific political meaning, even if
white originally symbolized the monarchy. In the French national
flag, blue never symbolized conservatism and red never
symbolized communism.
Ivan Sache, 29 November 2002