-The Legend of Speedy Sarkozy-: 02/01/2008

2/24/2008

Sarkozy insult a french old men : "get out, get out, poor jerk"

An old men refuse to shake hands with Sarkozy and..

the Old men :
"Not me, don't touch me
you're making me dirty"

French President Sarkozy :
"Cet out ..get out Poor jerk !"
French President Sarkozy keep smiling ...

Sarkozy "Casse toi Pauvre con" salon agriculture 2008
par torapamavoa

2/20/2008

" we can wonder " on the threat represented by the Scientology.

Sects " are a non-problem " in France

NOUVELOBS.COM ¦ 20.02.2008 ¦ 12:56
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Emmanuelle Mignon, the manager of Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet(office), considers that " the list established in 1995 is scandalous " and that " we can wonder " on the threat represented by the Scientology.

Emmanuelle Mignon, the manager of Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet(office) ( Sipa)

Sects " are a non-problem " in France. It is what claims Emmanuelle Mignon, the manager of cabinet(office) of the president Nicolas Sarkozy, on Wednesday, February 20th, in an interview(maintenance) to the weekly VSD. She adds that " we can wonder " on the threat represented by the Scientology.
" The fight(wrestling) against sects allowed for a long time to hide the true subjects. But, in France, sects are a non-problem ", judges this close to the Head of State.
" The list established in 1995 is scandalous ", she adds, evoking the list of the " sectarian movements " finalized(worked out) then by the Parliamentary committee of inquiry on sects.

" We can wonder "

" As for the Scientology ", which appeared in this list, " I do not know them, but we can wonder. Either it is a dangerous organization and we forbid him(it), or then they do not represent particular threat for the law and order and they have the right(law) to exist in peace ", underlines Emmanuelle Mignon.
The French parliamentary reports(connections) consider that the Church of Scientology is a sect. The Scientology benefits however from the status of religion in the other countries, notably in the United States.

Miviludes soon connected inside

Emmanuelle Mignon indicates that the government plans "to transform" Miviludes (interministerial Mission of attentiveness and fight(wrestling) against the sectarian drift), established with the Prime Minister, " into something more effective and to finish it with the bla-bla ". " To part to publish annual reports, Miviludes makes nothing ", she accuses.
According to the manager of cabinet(office) of the president, " the idea would be to connect this new body to the Home Office, to collaborate more strictly with the services of police. The rest has to recover from the justice ".

" Assure(insure) the freedom of faith of all "

Michele Alliot-Marie, home secretary in charge of Worship(Cults), boosted(relaunched) the debate on sects at the beginning of February. She(it) notably questioned the functioning of Miviludes, as this one is exactly the object of criticisms(critics) of movements as the Scientology.
In an interview(maintenance) to the Parisian, the Minister confided(entrusted) will " to do wonders for the self-confidence of the fight(wrestling) against sectarian drift " and " to assure(insure) the freedom of faith of all ".
Several associations, among which Unadfi (national Union of the associations of defence of families and individual), had declared themselves " touched and annoyed " by these statements(declarations).
The church of Scientology said to itself the week last victim of " violations of the law of 1905 " on the separation of Churches and the State and asked that her members benefit from the freedom of conscience recognized in the Constitution.

" The faith spreads(diffuses) values "

Miviludes has to present its report(relationship) 2007 to François Fillon at the beginning of April, indicated the body on Saturday, clarifying that it is the leader of the government that means deciding to make public this report(relationship) or not.
A working document, stemming from a common meeting of the advice(council) of orientation and from the executive committee of Miviludes held on February 7th, was passed on on Friday to the various concerned ministries (Inside, Justice, Health).
Emmanuelle Mignon underlines besides that Nicolas Sarkozy is the first French president to have said that " the spiritual question has to play a role in the company(society) ".
" The collection of sense(direction) was so important certainly never as today. The faith spreads(diffuses) values, and all which spreads(diffuses) values is positive ", she assures(insures)

2/19/2008

Sarkozy would enter anti-Muslim in the government after the elections

A new step in fear is crossed.

Sarkozy would enter anti-Muslim in the government after the elections

"In France today" announces the possibility of the entry of Philippe de Villiers to the government after the municipal elections, launching a right turn to the Right.
The extreme right is not anti-Semitic speech but only anti anti Arabs and Muslims, which is why this demarche is shameful!
It says in this article:
"Nothing is done, we're just talking about it "

Sarkozy accused of raids 'stunt'

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris The Guardian, Tuesday February 19 2008

Advertising guide License/buy our content About this articleClose This article appeared in the Guardian on Tuesday February 19 2008 on p22 of the International section. It was last updated at 10:16 on February 19 2008. More than 1,000 French riot police and special forces raided housing estates in a troubled Paris suburb at dawn yesterday, kicking open doors and arresting 33 people in a search for the suspected ringleaders of violent riots last year.

President Nicolas Sarkozy's political opponents called the operation an excessive "security spectacle" after pictures of armoured police trucks and "RoboCop" riot police were broadcast by television reporters tipped off in advance. Leftwingers accused Sarkozy, who is suffering in the polls, of trying to bolster his UMP party ahead of local elections next month.

The operation focused on 10 apartment blocks in Villiers-le-Bel and the surrounding area north of Paris, which saw three nights of serious rioting last November after two teenagers died in a motorbike crash with a police car. Although the unrest was contained within a few days, it was more serious than weeks of rioting in 2005 because the Villiers-le-Bel rioters fired guns at the police. During the unrest, 130 officers were injured, including at least 10 hit by buckshot or pellets.

Sarkozy vowed to track down the riot ringleaders "one by one". In December police leafleted the estates offering cash rewards for information. This month, launching an aid package for France's troubled high-rise blocks, where youth unemployment can reach 40%, Sarkozy vowed a "war without mercy" on crime.

The labour minister, Xavier Bertrand, said the arrests of people aged 17 to 31 showed "there is no zone of lawlessness in our republic". But the socialist Ségolène Royal said launching the raids with cameras in tow during an election period served "to influence opinion, to scare".

Sarkozy has sunk to his lowest ever poll ratings. This weekend politicians, including the former conservative prime minister Dominique de Villepin and Royal, signed an appeal against the emergence of an "elective monarchy" in France. They did not name Sarkozy, but delivered a thinly veiled attack against a monarchic form of "purely personal power".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/19/france?gusrc=rss&feed=media

2/14/2008

These twenty Africans thinkers and artists have decided to fight vigorously (and rigor!) Arguments Nicolas Sarkozy

A group of African intellectuals have decided to give a replica drawing attention to the real issues, on the key issues facing the old continent ... What is the actual responsibility of Africans in the intolerable suffering people suffered (violence genocide, fratricidal wars, dictatorships, waste and looting of resources, persistent colonial pact, etc.).

What role for Africa in globalization? How to combat the collusion of the State french with dictators of the continent?

How to put an end to the ugly manipulation of Independence by the French political class? How to combat revisionism devious who rewrote the history of the slave trade and colonization? Why racist arguments can be developed on African soil by the Head of State power of a modern, a colonizer countries also?

What effects such things can have on African youth in danger of being locked into outdated stereotypes?

These twenty thinkers and artists have decided to fight vigorously (and rigor!) Arguments Nicolas Sarkozy and, more importantly, to broaden the debate to the real challenges facing Africa today and tomorrow.

http://kouamouo.ivoire-blog.com/archive/2008/02/13/discours-de-dakar-l-afrique-repond-a-sarkozy.html
Liste provisioire des auteurs• lire la suite ...
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Zohra Bouchentouf-Siagh : professeur de linguistique et de littérature française et francophone (Alger, Vienne)
• Demba Moussa Dembélé : économiste (Dakar)
• Mamoussé Diagne : essayiste, professeur (Université Ch. Anta Diop, Dakar)
• Souleymane Bachir Diagne : essayiste, professeur (Dakar, Chicago)
• Boubacar Boris Diop : écrivain (Dakar)
• Babacar Diop Buuba : professeur (Université Ch. Anta Diop, Dakar)
• Dialo Diop : médecin biologiste (Dakar)
• Makhily Gassama : essayiste (Dakar)
• Koulsy Lamko : écrivain, professeur (N’Djaména)
• Gourmo Abdoul Lô : avocat, professeur (Nouakchott, Le Havre)
• Louise-Marie Maes Diop : géographe (Dakar)
• Kettly Mars : romancière (Haïti)
• Mwatha Musanji Ngalasso : essayiste, professeur (Université Montaigne, Bordeaux)
• Patrice Nganang : écrivain, essayiste, professeur (Cameroun, USA)
• Djibril Tamsir Niane : écrivain, historien (Conakry)
• Théophile Obenga : égyptologue, linguiste, historien, professeur (France, Université d’État de San Francisco USA)
• Raharimanana : écrivain (Madagascar)
• Bamba Sakho : docteur en sciences, chercheur (France)
• E. H. Ibrahima Sall : économiste
• Mahamadou Siribié : doctorant en Science politique (Nice, France)
• Adama Sow Diéye : professeur (Université Ch. Anta Diop, Dakar)
• Odile Tobner : professeur (Cameroun, France)
• Lye M. Yoka : professeur (Kinshasa)

USA will be able to send more troops to Iraq ...

Who thanks Nicolas ?

USA will be able to send more troops to Iraq ...
Genial ...
Http://www.20minutes.fr/article/212224/France-Afghanistan-le-contingent-militaire-francais-sera-accru.php

France plans to send reinforcements of soldiers in southern Afghanistan to support the efforts of NATO troops based in the region.

Paris had so far refused any deployment of combat units.
But the French authorities had decided last week in Vilnius, to meet the expectations pressing the United States and Canada, countries involved militarily in the region.
The president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is expected to officially announce the deployment of soldiers french at the summit of heads of state and government of NATO countries, scheduled from 2 to 4 April in Bucharest.

Olivier Roy, an expert in the Muslim world (CNRS) and author of The Cross and chaos (Hachette), told 20minutes.fr the issues involved in this decision.

What is the role of the International Force Security Assistance (Sailing), the NATO force in Afghanistan?
This force is responsible for fighting the Taliban. It is based in the south around Kandahar, with close to 15,000 men. The United States and Europe are committed after long months in the region, without conducting the same operations. The American contingent was fighting against the Taliban, while the Europeans were responsible for maintaining peace.
These two forces were merged two years ago to combat all Afghan Islamists.
The operation by Sailing is unique because it is the only case in which the forces of the North Atlantic Alliance are deployed outside the European area of operations for fighting.

Why did the United States and Canada have warned the Europeans last week?

The Americans have asked the European countries of NATO to intervene more in Afghanistan to be able to disengage their troops and redeploy in Iraq. Washington is based on the broad consensus as to the European intervention in Afghanistan.
They want to push the burden on the region to focus on Iraq.
Canadians for their part, should cope with a public increasingly reluctant. Afghanistan is an expensive undertaking. Nearly 80 soldiers have already died.

What are the implications of the French decision?
The real issue is political. The United States want to continue fighting. And the British want to enter into negotiations with the Taliban. The Europeans, including France, have not yet spoken on the issue, but look for the path of discussions.

France is going to be a prime target for terrorist acts because of this commitment in Afghanistan?
I do not think because France is already present in the region. There is no direct connection between the activities of European countries abroad and attacks on national territory. In speeches terrorists, perhaps, but not in deed.

For the New york Fashion website SarkozA is the bruni's husband

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French president Sarkozy is "SarkozA" !

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/tags/nicolas%20sarkoza

Bruni 'sorry' for comparing critics to anti-Semitic collaborators

Carla Bruni Should Not Have Indirectly Mentioned the Holocaust

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/02/carla_bruni_should_not_have_me.html

In her first interview since marrying French president Nicolas Sarkozy, former model Carla Bruni vented to L'Express about rival French news magazine Le Nouvel Observateur.

Here's what the mag did to upset the Sarkozys:
Last week, the magazine's website published a copy of what it claimed was a text message from M. Sarkozy to his divorced wife, Cécilia, eight days before M.Sarkozy was to marry Mme Bruni.

Le Nouvel Observateur said M. Sarkozy had offered to "drop everything" if his former wife returned to him. M. Sarkozy has since denounced the story as false and started a legal action against the magazine for "forgery" and, puzzlingly, "receiving stolen goods".

Le Nouvel Observateur is an "intelligent" news magazine, but Bruni accused it of stooping to the level of something like Us Weekly. And then she made the mistake of adding, "If these types of website had existed during the war, how many denunciations of Jews would there have been?" Ouch, Carla. The editor of the Observateur said the comparison was unfair and called Bruni "perfectly stupid." But Bruni kept it classy with an immediate apologetic statement on L'Express' Website. "If I upset anyone, I am extremely sorry … I just wanted to say how badly I view these personal attacks, which degrade reporting," she said.

So what did we learn, Carla? Don't bandy about with the references to Jewish persecution. Your text-messaging kerfuffle probably isn't in the same ballpark.

Episode 2 :

Bruni 'sorry' for comparing critics to anti-Semitic collaborators

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/bruni-sorry-for-comparing-critics-to-antisemitic-collaborators-782030.html

Reuters

Bruni with French president Nicholas Sarkozy

By John Lichfield in Paris
Thursday, 14 February 2008

The new French first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, apologised yesterday for comparing a magazine website to French collaborators who "denounced Jews" during the 1939-45 war.

In her first interview since her marriage 11 days ago, the Franco-Italian pop singer stumbled unnecessarily into one of the most sensitive issues in recent French history. However, she recovered, and gained considerable credit, by making an almost instant apology.

In an interview with the magazine L'Express, Mme Bruni-Sarkozy, 40, complained about the behaviour of a rival news magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur. Last week, the magazine's website published a copy of what it claimed was a text message from M. Sarkozy to his divorced wife, Cécilia, eight days M.Sarkozy was to marry Mme Bruni.

Le Nouvel Observateur said M. Sarkozy had offered to "drop everything" if his former wife returned to him. M. Sarkozy has since denounced the story as false and started a legal action against the magazine for "forgery" and, puzzlingly, "receiving stolen goods".

In her interview with L'Express, Mme Bruni-Sarkozy accused Le Nouvel Observateur – an intelligent centre-left magazine – of stooping to the level of the "Presse people" or celebrity press. Then she went on: "If these types of website had existed during the war, how many denunciations of Jews would there have been?"

The editor of Nouvel Observateur, Michel Labro, protested that no one should "play with" accusations based on such a dark period in history. He accused Mme Bruni-Sarkozy of being "perfectly stupid".

The first lady immediately placed a statement on the L'Express website admitting that the comment was a "mistake". "If I upset anyone, I am extremely sorry," she said. "I just wanted to say how badly I view these personal attacks, which degrade reporting."

In the remainder of her interview with L'Express, Mme Bruni-Sarkozy addressed the anxiety of many older, conservative voters about her marriage to the President. She rejected the suggestion that the wedding – three months after they met and four months after the President's divorce – was hasty. "What happened between Nicolas and me was not quick, it was immediate. So for us, [getting married after three months] seemed rather slow."

The new first lady also returned to her comment – made a year ago before she met M. Sarkozy – that she found "monogamy deadly boring". That was when she was single, she implied. Marriage was different. "I am Italian in spirit and I don't like divorce. I will therefore be the first lady until my husband leaves office and his wife until death... That is my wish."

The Sarkozy-Bruni love affair and marriage has coincided with – and, pollsters say, helped to cause – a decline in the President's popularity. Mme Bruni-Sarkozy attempted in her interview to explain one of the incidents in the French press.

When the couple went on holiday to Egypt and Jordan in December, M. Sarkozy was pictured with her six-year-old son, Aurélien, on his shoulders. The boy was hiding his face in apparent embarrassment. Mme Bruni-Sarkozy said that it had been a "big error" to bring her son and a "mistake" to ask him to hide his face so he would not be recognised in the photographs.

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To save Deby Sarkozy invites Khadafi and delivers ammunition! Chad : Paris re-can have supported Chad against the rebels

14 févr. 2008

To save Deby Sarkozy invites Khadafi and delivers ammunition!
Theo Cheer.
Chad a point of view
Sms of Sarkozy with Idriss Deby...
Chad: Sarkozy does not want images
Chad: Paris lunatic any participation in the engagements again***

After many days of lies Paris officially help Idriss Deby against "Rebels"...

Paris re-can have supported Chad against the rebels
NOUVELOBS.COM ¦ 14.02.2008 ¦ 13:36
According to the spokesman of the ministry of the Defence, the French army " forwarded ammunitions intended for the Chadian strengths ".

In a street of the Chadian capital N'Djamena (Reuters)

The spokesman of the ministry of the Defence Laurent Teisseire declared on Thursday, February 14th that the French army " forwarded ammunitions intended for the Chadian strengths " during the offensive of the rebels against the regime of the president Idriss Déby."

The French means participated in the routing of ammunitions intended for the Chadian strengths ", indicated Laurent Teisseire, during the press briefing of the ministry.

The spokesman refused to clarify the nature of ammunitions and the quantities delivered to the Chadian national Army. He did not either clarify where from had left the French planes.

He(It) has by also indicated that Libyan planes would also have been able to deliver ammunitions to the Chadian regular strengths, underlining that several Libyan devices had settled(arisen) on the airport of N'Djamena during this crisis, to proceed to the evacuation of his(her) nationals.

"I Won't Shake Hands With People who Refuse to Recognize Israel"....

What kind of relation Sarkozy want with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ?

Few words :

"I Won't Shake Hands With People who Refuse to Recognize Israel"....

But what kind of acts ?

He said the same thing about VLADIMIR PUTIN ...

"To those who accused him of having met with Bush he respond that it was "shameful less than shake hands with Putin," and it was reminiscent of the tens of thousands of deaths from the war in Chechnya. "The new president has promised a new French vision of the world" "

but he was the first to congragulate Putin for his election.

Source :

PARIS
(Reuters) -

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday he would
refuse to greet any world leader who refused to recognise Israel -- a remark
apparently ruling out any face-to-face meetings with Iran's Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad.

Sarkozy made the off-the-cuff remark in a speech to the
French-Jewish community in which he reaffirmed his strong support for
international sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear programme.

"I won't shake hands with people who refuse to recognise Israel," Sarkozy declared.

Ahmadinejad, Iran's hardline president, has in the past called for the Jewish state to be "wiped off the map".

France has led the way in pressing for sanctions at the U.N. Security Council and in the European Union to get Iran to halt atomic work which Western powers fear is aimed at making
bombs.

2/12/2008

If you have missed the most recent episodes in the Sarko soap opera, here is a brief update:

Nicolas Sarkozy: The problem with the president
He swaggered into the Elysée Palace on a promise to reinvent France for the 21st century. But after just eight months, Nicolas Sarkozy's popularity is plummeting – and his personal life is becoming a soap opera. Is he up to the job? John Lichfield reports

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/nicolas-sarkozy-the-problem-with-the-president-780974.html

Tuesday, 12 February 2008

Imagine, for a moment, President Charles de Gaulle in dark glasses and dark roll-top jumper sitting at a café terrace in Versailles with his newly married pop-singer wife.Imagine also le Général in open-neck shirt and jeans on an Egyptian holiday. The tall, austere saviour of France is walking, hand in hand, with Mick Jagger's ex-girlfriend. Her small son sits on his shoulders, looking embarrassed.

Imagine, for a moment, President Jacques Chirac in the Vatican, fiddling compulsively with the buttons of his mobile phone as his companions are being presented to the Pope. The presidential entourage includes, incidentally, France's most vulgar and foul-mouthed comedian, Jean-Marie Bigard, a kind of Gallic Bernard Manning.

Imagine, for a moment, President François Mitterrand receiving ministerial visits to his office in the Elysée Palace with his feet up on his desk. Worse, imagine the suave, icy President Mitterrand addressing almost everyone he meets with the familiar "tu", instead of the dignified and respectful "vous".

In his eight months as French head of state, Nicolas Sarkozy has done all these things and more. Genres have been confused, values muddled, conventions trampled, traditions overturned.

President Sarkozy promised last year to reinvent France for the 21st century, while preserving, or rekindling, "traditional values". He has started by reinventing – or, some say, desecrating – the French presidency.

The aloof, discreet, solemn, haughty, republican monarchy invented by Charles de Gaulle has become a non-stop blur of microphones, photo-opportunities, millionaire's yachts, Rolex watches, dark glasses, mobile phones, jeans, jogging shorts, a divorce, and now a trophy wife.

M. Sarkozy has become a kind of President "moi", governing with a mirror in one hand, seeking permanent, public attention and approval. In the last two weeks, however, events have started to spin out of the control of a man who is desperate to appear always in control.

If you have missed the most recent episodes in the Sarko soap opera, here is a brief update:

Less than four months after the spectacular break-up of his second marriage, the President who wants to restore "Catholic values" has married a beautiful, left-wing, libertarian pop-singer. His new bride, Carla Bruni, once said that she was "bored to death by monogamy".

According to a respected, centre-left magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur, President Sarkozy sent a text message to his ex-wife Cécilia eight days before the marriage offering to "drop everything" if she came back to him. M. Sarkozy has brought a criminal action against the magazine for "forgery", but also for "receiving stolen goods". So, was the message a fake or was it "stolen"?

President Sarkozy's control over his own centre-right political party – almost complete two months ago – is under threat. Once again, his tangling of politics and family is to blame. The President tried to parachute his chief press officer, David Martinon, into the town hall of his own former fiefdom of Neuilly-sur-Seine, a millionaires' ghetto just west of Paris. M. Martinon, a close friend of M. Sarkozy's second, now ex-wife Cécilia proved to be a hopeless and unpopular candidate for mayor. He was forced to withdraw yesterday after a revolt by other local centre-right candidates, including Jean Sarkozy, 22, the President's son from his first marriage.

The soap-opera analogy is hardly far-fetched. With almost daily conflicts involving former wives, and confidants of former wives, and sons of previous marriages, the Elysée Palace has started to resemble the Ewing family ranch in Dallas. At first, even some of M. Sarkozy's political enemies found aspects of the informal, self-regarding Sarko style to be refreshing. There were some who argued that the new approach was part of a calculated attempt to change the way that France thinks of itself: to create a cult of success; to break down the old stuffy barriers between the French people and their ruling élite.

Now, many of President Sarkozy's supporters, and nominal allies, fear that the Sarko style may not be a style at all but an absence of style; a nouveau-riche vulgarité; a contempt for the importance of tradition; an arrogant belief that the office-holder is more important than the office.

Jean-Louis Debré, the president of France's constitutional council, part of a political dynasty with impeccable Gaullist and conservative credentials, caused a stir by saying publicly what many centre-right politicians are saying privately: President Sarkozy, as head of state, not a mere head of government, lacks "decorum" and "dignity".

"From the moment that you have been given a certain mission by the people, there are certain manners that you have to observe," said M. Debré, a member of the diehard Chiraquian wing of M. Sarkozy's centre-right party. "The authority of the state, and the legitimacy conferred upon you by the people, implies a certain decorum, a certain dignity of office ... You have to be careful not to desanctify your official function."

Many unpleasant remarks were attributed to the President's former wife Cécilia, by her biographer Anna Bitton earlier this month. She described her former husband as a serial "sauteur" (shagger) and a man who "loves no one, not even his children". She complained that M. Sarkozy had reacted to their divorce last October by holding "karaoke parties" with "bimbos" until four in the morning.

Attacks on an ex-husband by an ex-wife should, perhaps, be treated with caution. However, one relatively restrained comment by the second Mme Sarkozy was, maybe, the most telling of all: "Nicolas does not come over like a President of the Republic," she said. "He has a real behaviour problem. Someone needs to tell him."

For "someone" read a series of disastrous opinion polls. In a new Ipsos survey yesterday, to be published in full on Thursday, the President's approval rating will plunge to 39 per cent – 10 percentage points down in one month. Only President Chirac has ever fallen further and faster. One pollster said that many voters are beginning to wonder whether the Sarkozy of last year's election campaign – energetic, can-do, plain-speaking – had been, quite simply, an "imposter".

The President is losing ground especially among the socially conservative over-60s, precisely the constituency that gave him his handsome victory over the Socialist candidate, Ségolène Royal, last May. If the election had been held among voters aged 18 to 60 alone, Royal would have won.

A youngish député (MP) in M. Sarkozy's party, the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP), told The Independent: "The view of my older constituents can be summarised as follows: 'We could swallow his divorce, even if it was his second one, and even if it happened so soon after he became President. But to marry again, less than four months after a divorce, is the kind of thing that you would be devastated to see your youngest son doing, let alone the President of the Republic.'"

M. Sarkozy's abrupt collapse in the polls is attributed by pollsters to a dangerous chemical reaction between two negatives. First, there is disappointment that President Sarkozy has failed to deliver his promised "shock of confidence" that would boost the economy and disposable income. Second, there is a growing distaste for the President's glitzy, showbiz lifestyle and his casual treatment of the presidential office. French people gave M. Sarkozy a 60 per cent-plus approval ratings only five months ago. They are now beginning to ask, in the words of one pollster, whether he is "all blah-blah and bling-bling". Is Speedy Sarkozy in danger of spinning off the track?

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There was nothing wrong, in principle, with a change of presidential style. The old Mitterrand-Chirac act – I'm-all-powerful-but-not-always-responsible – was wearing thin. Both Mitterrand and Chirac upheld the pompous, avuncular traditions of the French presidency, but – as M. Sarkozy is quick to point out – both tainted the office in other ways. President Mitterrand secretly ran a second family. President Chirac manipulated the legal protections of his office to avoid criminal investigation for misuse of public funds.

There is something rather vulgar about M. Sarkozy, but his vulgarity and his energy are inseparable. Although he has been a politician since his twenties, he spent his formative years as mayor of the aforementioned millionaires' suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. He is not part of the traditional French ruling class: effortlessly superior and understated, sustained by "old money" or the administrative certainties of the system of the grandes ecoles, or élite colleges.

President Sarkozy represents a Nouvelle France of media and advertising, luxury goods and "new" money. The society in which he moves is brash, self-promoting and full of energy and ideas, although not always good ones. It was not an accident – although it might be read as a provocation – that the witnesses at his wedding came from the world of luxury goods, high fashion and pop music.

Some political analysts, such as Pierre-Henri Tavoillot, a lecturer in political philosophy at the Sorbonne, argue that Sarkozy's "bling-bling" presidency is partly uncontrolled (that's simply the way he is), and partly calculated. M. Sarkozy is obsessed, he says, with the need to break out of the straitjacket of "democratic mediocrity". He wants to seem ordinary but at the same time, extraordinary. He wants to be a pragmatic, can-do politician with a pop-star lifestyle. He believes that this is the way to remain popular in a world in which politicians are doomed to seem mediocre, or powerless, or both. M. Sarkozy detests the suggestion that, in global terms, national politicians are often helpless to control events. He has an almost psychotic need to have an answer, and a policy, and an ideology, for everything.

Fellow centre-right politicians believe that they have the key to this part of M. Sarkozy's personality. He is determined to be seen to be the "anti-Chirac". Where his old mentor was semi-detached, Sarkozy wants to be involved. Where the father-figure that he abandoned had no clear political philosophy, Sarkozy wants to be a political thinker (even if he never seems to think the same thing for very long). Where the president that he outwitted was old, and old-fashioned, Sarkozy wants to be a pop icon of the 21st century.

But where is President Sarkozy going? The much-trumpeted, mould-breaking economic reforms have been rather modest so far. Unabashed by a lack of concrete results, President Sarkozy has made a series of sweeping "vision" statements: on Africa; on religion and social values; and on the need for a new "politics of civilisation", which will dethrone growth and material success as the engines of Western life and politics. There has been much that is intelligent in these statements, and much that is disturbing and confusing.

After eight months in office, we are no closer to answering the questions raised by his presidential campaign. President Sarkozy, the man hailed simplistically by the British and American right-wing press as a Gallic Margaret Thatcher, remains an interventionist and a protectionist at heart.

Two days after his wedding, he was standing outside a threatened steelworks in Lorraine promising the workers that the cash-strapped French state would never let their mill – or any other steel mill – close. Later the same day, he flew to Bucharest, spent only four hours in Romania, irritating his hosts, and flew back again. The day afterwards, it emerged that there was no legal basis on which President Sarkozy could bale out a failing steelworks belonging to a profitable company.

President Sarkozy's friends and political allies hope that his marriage will calm him and take his private life out of the news. (Some hope, you might say, with a beautiful pop-singer for a wife). They believe that the French presidency of the EU in the second half of this year will feed his bulimic need for work and attention. After discovering that he cannot achieve instant results, President Sarkozy is now prepared, they say, to enter a more reflective and calm passage of his presidency. The break-up with Cécilia badly unsettled a man who is agitated at the best of times, they say. The idyll with Carla – genuine, they insist, whatever Le Nouvel Observateur might claim – will help him to adopt a more restrained and thoughtful approach.

One of the first outward signs, officials say, is the President's new ideology, the "politics of civilisation" – an appeal for a more ecological, less market-driven approach to the future of the planet and humanity. (Is this also the first sign of the influence of his new left-wing wife?) The policy is far from wrong-headed. It addresses, quite cleverly, the zeitgeist of the "late Noughties". Across Europe, even across the Atlantic, the public mood is slowly turning against the tyranny of growth and markets in favour of softer, greener values.

"We cannot hope to change our ways of doing things and our way of thinking if our definitions of wealth remain the same," President Sarkozy said last month. "We need to take into account quality, not only quantity, to promote a new kind of growth."

The problem is that President Sarkozy had previously promised to be the "president of purchasing power". He had previously promised to make France "work more to earn more". He had previously promised to make France the "fastest growing country in the EU". A politician defined by billionaires' yachts, Rolex watches, Dior engagement rings and trophy wives is perhaps not best placed to preach that happiness cannot be achieved through material possessions.

Contradictions have always been part of the Sarko package. What had once seemed refreshingly original, an ability to straddle the normal boundaries of party and ideology, is now beginning to look merely shallow: an adman's talent for hijacking and exploiting hot-button issues.

When he visited the Pope in December, President Sarkozy made a complex, very thoughtful speech that is still reverberating through French politics and society five weeks later. In a deliberate break with the ideology of a "lay" or secular Republic, which has dominated French politics for the last century, M. Sarkozy said that France needed "moral thinking, inspired by religious convictions".

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Another "imposture"? President Sarkozy is said by friends and family to be a fundamentally non-religious man. He rarely attends Mass. A couple of hours before his appeal for Catholic values, he fiddled with his mobile phone in front of the Pope. He brought a foul-mouthed stand-up comic – and devout Catholic – to Rome as part of his official delegation.

Politicians within M. Sarkozy's party – even his long-suffering, honorable Prime Minister, François Fillon – are struggling to keep up with the zigs and zags of "Sarkozisme". The president's inconsistencies, and rhetorical flourishes, are often blamed on his two most influential, unelected advisers, Henri Guaino, his speechwriter and "special councillor" and Claude Guéant, the secretary-general of the Elysée Palace. They are known as Sarkozy's "head and legs". They have become a kind of separate government, interfering – sometimes with unfortunate results – in domestic and foreign policy.

Both are Eurosceptic, market-sceptic, French nationalists. Both come from the old Gaullist tradition of a kind of paternalist, interventionist conservatism. Their influence infuriates the elected politicians in M. Sarkozy's party. So has his policy of "opening" his government to politicians of the centre-left, and inexperienced politicians of North African or African origin. The policy of racial "ouverture" was long overdue. It represents President Sarkozy's most important achievement to date.

All the same, UMP politicians – and not only those who feel cheated of ministerial posts – complain that M. Sarkozy's "openness" has led to an extraordinary concentration of power in the hands of one man. By promoting ministers from nowhere, or literally from left-field, President Sarkozy has excluded, or diminished, other centre-right politicians who had built power bases of their own.

Here is another paradox. By marginalising the Prime Minister, M. Fillon, President Sarkozy has made the presidency more powerful than ever. At the same time, he stands accused of weakening the sacred and symbolic power of the office, with his casual, and sometime thoughtless, behaviour.

"By leaping from one dossier to another, from Disneyland to the Vatican, from the world of politics to the high life, he seems to have no concern for the reputation of his office," said Jean-Pierre Le Goff, a sociologist who has just published a book on the rootlessness of modern France (La France morcelée, published by Gallimard). Sarkozy was elected on a promise to restore the moral bearings of France, allegedly progressively undermined since the student revolution of May 1968. Instead, M. Le Goff says, the President's odd behaviour has deepened the nation's already "profound sense of disorientation".

While M. Sarkozy was popular, his morass of contradictions was forgiven by his own supporters and, up to a point, by the French press. Since his collapse in the opinion polls, all bets are off.

Since the creation of an executive presidency in 1958, it has been the job of the French prime minister to be unpopular and shield the reputation of the president. The hyperactive M. Sarkozy has reversed the roles. He is plunging in the polls; his calm, thoughtful Prime Minister, François Fillon, is rising. This is unprecedented in modern French politics.

A section of the UMP – the party that M. Sarkozy brilliantly stole from under President Chirac's not-inconsiderable nose – is in open revolt. With municipal elections approaching in March, many centre-right candidates are scrambling to take the UMP colours and symbol off their literature and websites. This was happening even before the farcical calamity of M. Martinon's Sarko-inspired candidacy in Neuilly, the President's own power-base.

We have been here before, admittedly by a very different route. A French president sets out to be everything to everyone without doing much. He ends up by being unpopular with almost everybody. President Sarkozy, the anti-Chirac, may be more like Jacques Chirac than he thinks. But all is not lost. The President has more than four years in which to calm the excesses of his glitzy style. There is a difference, the French are telling him, between being youthful, informal, energetic and refreshing, and being inappropriate and annoying.

As France's most readable political commentator, Alain Duhamel, points out, the Sarko approach leaves no room for the undecided: "You worship him or you loathe him." If his reform policies begin to succeed, if the French economy turns upward (a big "if"), M. Sarkozy could become rapidly popular again.

All eyes will be on him and the new Mme Sarkozy when they make their first big state visit, on 26 March, to Britain. Of the two, it is perhaps France's First Lady who is less likely to do, or say, something disconcerting or embarrassing. A failed Sarkozy presidency would be a calamity, and not just for France. He sold himself to the French people as the energetic, pragmatic, democratic antidote to the extremes of both right and left. Except possibly the Prime Minister, M. Fillon, there is no obvious alternative to M. Sarkozy in the rest of the moderate French democratic landscape – on the right or the left.

Louis XV, the penultimate king before the French Revolution, is supposed to have said, "Après moi, le déluge". (After me, the flood or the downpour.) If M. Sarkozy fails, in a blaze of bling, France faces a similarly grim prospect. Après Président Moi, le déluge

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Basics

Nicolas Sarkozy — pronunciation (help·info)
born Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa on January 28, 1955 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris,

is the current President of France and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra,

elected on 6 May 2007 after defeating Socialist Party contender Ségolène Royal during the second round of the 2007 election.

Before his presidency, he was leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) right wing party. Under Jacques Chirac's presidency, he served as the Minister of the Interior in Jean-Pierre Raffarin (UMP)'s first two governments (from May 2002 to March 2004), then was appointed Minister of Finances in Raffarin's last government (March 2004 May 2005), and again Minister of the Interior in Dominique de Villepin's government (2005-2007).

Sarkozy was also president of the General council of the Hauts-de-Seine department from 2004 to 2007 and mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine, one of the wealthiest communes of France from 1983 to 2002. Furthermore, he was also Minister of the Budget in Édouard Balladur (RPR, predecessor of the UMP)'s government during François Mitterrand's last term.

Sarkozy is known for his strong stance on law and order issues[1] and his desire to revitalise the French economy.[2] In foreign affairs, he has promised closer cooperation with the United States.[3]

His nickname "Sarko" is used by both supporters and opponents.