Posted on 03/06/2011 3:49:38 PM PST by Cincinna
French President Nicolas Sarkozy named former premier Alain Juppe as his new foreign minister yesterday, after Michele Alliot-Marie, tainted by her ties to the former Tunisian regime, resigned.
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Thanks Cincinna.
Thank you for posting,
What are the chances for President Sarkozys re election?
The election is in April 2012. That’s a very long time in politics, so it is really way too soon to tell.
He is very low in the polls now, so he can only go up. There is no standout candidate on the Left. Martine Aubry is too tied to her father, EU founder, Jacques Delors, and Francois Hollande, father of the four children of Segolene Royal. You remember her from last time! is not exactly Monsieur Charisma, has a lot of people who dont like him, but is the smartest and most competent of a bad lot. He has a new girlfriend who tries to be a Carla look-alike and has gone on a diet. Dominique Strauss-Kahn has lots of scandals, and is viewed as too European/International as head of the IMF.
I don't know why you forgot to tell your fellow Freepers about this:
In 2004, Alain Juppé was tried for the felony of abuse of public funds, when he was head of the RPR and the RPR illegally used personnel provided by the City of Paris for running its operations. He was convicted and sentenced to an 18-month suspended jail sentence, the deprivation of civic rights for five years, and the deprivation of the right to run for political office for 10 years. He appealed the decision, whereby his disqualification from holding elected office was reduced to one year and the suspended sentence cut to 14 months.
I guess it is par for the course for French politicians. The trial against l'Escroc himself starts today.
Thanks SB.
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