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...government have applied. Indeed, new polls show 58% wanting Sarkozy to adopt the more sober, distant profile traditional of French Presidents. At the same time, however, 67% said they want him to continue applying the reform platform he was elected on prompting the right-wing daily Le Figaro to headline its Monday editorial "The Reforms, Faster and Stronger...
...Kerviel] as a man in the street, overtaken by the system.” That was just the tip of the iceberg. The popular French daily Le Monde addressed Kerviel as a “hero of our time” on February 2nd, and that same day, Le Figaro revealed that only 13 percent of people believed the trader was responsible for the scandal. Thousands joined his fan group on Facebook and, to top it all, the National Observateur called him the “Che Guevara of Finance...
...Saturday, the daily Le Figaro published a leaked private UMP poll of Neuilly voters projecting a Martinon defeat in the first round of balloting to a quixotic local independent Conservative candidate. The high probability that backers of candidates eliminated in the first stage would vote to defeat Martinon in the second, Le Figaro contended, meant "Sarkozy has hardly any choice but to pull Martinon" from the race. The risk of not doing so, the paper quoted a presidential advisor explaining, was taking a humiliating "slap in the face." Mindful of that peril, Neuilly's UMP brass teamed up with Jean...
...European Affairs, told reporters that the Elysée "shouldn't substitute itself for the government." The growing chorus of criticism reaching into his own government became too much for Sarkozy, who used Wednesday's weekly cabinet meeting to "Bang His Fist On the Table", as the daily Le Figaro headlined...
...listen, I read, I hear everything that's said. After the municipal elections I will take, with sang-froid, the necessary decisions," Le Figaro and other media reported Sarkozy warning government ministers. That was clearly Sarkozy's warning that all carping was to stop, widely interpreted as an implicit threat to ministers who'd already crossed the line that they'd be removed once the municipal elections are over...