Matters French...
A slew of polls have been released, and they are looking good for Sarko, even before the revelation that Sego is a Champagne Socialist / of the Gauche Caviar filters through. For the second round - if Sego and Sarko make it, he is favoured 52/48. Meanwhile, 39% of our Gallic chums think Sarko has fought the best campaign, and 26% proffer the laurels to Sego.
Elsewhere, Sarko is laying it on thick : "I have seen many [personal] attacks against me, and I cannot see what purpose they serve....I will not comment on [Sego's] difficulties, and they bring me no pleasure (liar, liar.. C). I want a campaign which is peaceful, honest, transparent, worthy and dignifies France....We do not need low blows, nor personal attacks".
Sounds a bit like Tony Benn and his perennial cry of 'let'sh focush on the isshues, not pershonalities'. Alternatively, the skeletons in Sarko's cupboard are rattling....
Elsewhere, Sarko is laying it on thick : "I have seen many [personal] attacks against me, and I cannot see what purpose they serve....I will not comment on [Sego's] difficulties, and they bring me no pleasure (liar, liar.. C). I want a campaign which is peaceful, honest, transparent, worthy and dignifies France....We do not need low blows, nor personal attacks".
Sounds a bit like Tony Benn and his perennial cry of 'let'sh focush on the isshues, not pershonalities'. Alternatively, the skeletons in Sarko's cupboard are rattling....
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What do you know? Is it illegal to defame a frenchman?
I cannot claim to have a pile of dirt on Sarko, but he does not seem the most uxorious of husbands:
"On 23 September 1982 he married Corsican-born Marie-Dominique Culioli, daughter of a pharmacist from Vico (a village north of Ajaccio, Corsica). They have two sons, Pierre (born in 1985) and Jean (born in 1987). Sarkozy's marriage witness was Charles Pasqua, later to become a political opponent.
As mayor of Neuilly, Sarkozy met Cécilia Ciganer-Albeniz (great-grand-daughter of Isaac Albéniz through her mother, and who also has Russian roots through her father), who was then married to TV host Jacques Martin. In 1989, Ciganer-Albeniz left Martin for Sarkozy. After a difficult divorce of his own, Sarkozy married her in 1996. They have a son, Louis, born in 1997.
Between 2002 and 2005, the couple often appeared together on public occasions, with Ciganer-Albeniz acting as a sort of chief aide for her husband. This was fairly unusual: in general, French politicians seek to separate their public lives from their personal and family lives.
On 25 May 2005, however, the Swiss newspaper Le Matin revealed that Ciganer-Albeniz had left Sarkozy for Moroccan national Richard Attias, head of the Publicis Events company (who had organised the UMP meeting in 2004.) It was then reported that she had done so after obtaining proof that Sarkozy had cheated on her, reportedly meeting mistresses while pretending to be jogging in a Parisian park while he was Minister of the Interior, and in other situations [1]. This led Sarkozy to sue Le Matin [2]. Ciganer-Albeniz spent a good deal of the following year in New York with Attias.
According to several French and Swiss newspapers, Sarkozy was assumed to be in the process of divorcing his wife, and was in a relationship with Anne Fulda, a journalist from Le Figaro. Finally, in January 2006, a reconciliation with Ciganer-Albeniz took place. They are currently living together again. Sarkozy suggested to the press that he welcomed Ciganer-Albeniz back from the USA, although the exact circumstances of the reconciliation are not well known."
If I were either Sarko or Mrs Sarko, I would not leave the other alone with anyone who works in the media....
In Franc even the right is left.. None of them will ever reduce taxes.. Though atleast sarkozy promises to get rid of or atleast put a halt to immigrants (turkish and arab mainly).. Anyway the french are a miserable bunch who need to sort their economy out..
Funny Fact: Segolene Royal is actually number 7 in the French FHM of the 100 sexiest women.. It seems that France definitely needs an in flux of women from Eastern Europe :)
I don't care who Sarko has been shagging or indeed who Mrs Sarko has been shagging. The fact is that the weaknesses of Sego are becoming ever more apparent. And that's good news in my book. The French are beginning to see through the carefully packaged celebrity product and ... voila, Sego's got no substance or policy to offer. Sarko, who is most decidely not "one of us", is by far the least bad of the candidates. And he'll win. At the time of the Paris riots, he used the word "scum" when it needed to be used. All credit to him.
As with every French election, were I enfranchised I would hold my nose and put a cross in the box for a Gaullist candidate.
I thought it was illegal to de-fame people in France. Hence their monstrous political class.
I enjoyed the lesson on Edith Cresson, alas I was a little young. She does seem to be in the Broon level of competence.
Why do the French always look chic in their infidelities and the British vaguely grubby ?
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