I only hope that Sarkozy isn’t keeping Chirac cabinet members that will turn on him like many of those that President Bush kept from the Clinton Administration.
A similar thought crossed my mind. Hopefully Sarkozy has a Realpolitikal backbone behind his bipartisanship, instead of just letting “bipartisanship” mean, that conservatives take it in the shorts from the Left, despite the fact that the political Right held nominal power.