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I have checked Prague claims and it does not look like surveillance. It looks like plan to build system for traffic control in 2022. Source article does not say anything about surveillance.

Also source article is really incoherent I do not know what author tried to say maybe some vague claim about possible bribery? Those newspapers are owned by czech PM and he uses them to attack political opponents. I would not believe a word from them otherwise there is another source.

Prague is now ruled by Pirate party and they are against using cameras for surveillance. They stated it in November 2019 when police wanted to start using face recognition. I am not sure why they added Prague to the list.

Any correlation with the local political color?

All the French ones are right-wing, 5/7 from Les Républicains (The Republicans, a right-wing conservative party).

That doesn't say that much, as most of France is under right-wing leadership at the moment (president is centre-right)

Curious, do the French people consider Macron a right winger?

Center right yes. The prime minister is a from a right party. On average since the election, Macron's popularity went down with French people voting left, and raised (or didn't went down as much) with French people voting right.

Was the "voter-base" that put him in power primarily of the left or the right wings? Or more to the center in general?

The right wing candidate (Fillon) was out of the race due to some financial scandal. The left wing candidate (Hamon) who won the primary wasn't supported by the "left establishement" (who rallied Macron) as he was too much on the left. Macron was also widely supported by the medias, and there was some enthusiasm to have a "fresh" candidate.

He doesn't appeal to conservatives, neither to the left but considering the circumstances it was an easy win for him. I'd say its voter-base are the educated, urban professionals.

Will the establishments then turn away from Macron next election, when they can put up more formidable candidates? My American birds-eye view is that Macron is not very popular.

There is no establishment. The classic left party just died while the classic right party still hasn't found anyone popular enough to represent them. Macron isn't very popular during his exercice, but it has been like this for French presidents recently. If nothing changes, Macron may very likely win the next election. Things can change fast though.

France has more than just two political parties. Macron started as a centrist populist with his own party, but has leaned to the right with his actions since coming to office.

I understand that there are more than two political parties. I'm not that blind of an American. Just curious how most Frenchmen view their own leaders on the spectrum.

I didn't mean to imply that you didn't know that, just gave it as context that it's more nuanced than right or left leaning.

I suppose it depends who you ask. He's less conservative than the traditional right, but economically he's very much on the right side of the spectrum (at least relative to French standards). The prime minister and minister of economy he designated come from the traditional right party.

Maybe there is but I'd avoid drawing too many conclusions.

I think the desire to monitor like this tends to be more about human nature and less about a given political ideology.

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