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...asked Fran??ois Hollande to leave our home to pursue his love interest--which is now laid bare in books and newspapers--on his own.' SEGOLNE ROYALE, the defeated French presidential candidate, about her separation from her partner, the Socialist Party leader. She discusses the breakup in a book to be released on June...
...writer is a researcher at the Observatoire fran??ais des conjonctures économiques of Sciences-Po University, in Paris...
Over the past 26 years, France has been led by two presidents, Fran??ois Mitterand and Jacques Chirac, who came from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, but who shared an inability to address the profound identity crisis that France has been undergoing. By now, French voters seem to recognize that without a major course correction, the country has little to look forward to other than growing social unrest and long-term economic decline...
...Royal, setting up a classic left-right contest for the May 6 runoff. France is enthralled. It's the first matchup of candidates born after World War II, and with high unemployment and immigration boiling issues, the stakes are enormous. Royal desperately needs the votes of centrist Fran??ois Bayrou, who took 18.5% of the first-round tally. She has reached out to Bayrou, but the would-be kingmaker is refusing to endorse either finalist. Sarkozy seems to have won nearly half the voters who in 2002 gave Jean-Marie Le Pen an 18% score. In the runoff Sarkozy will...
...turns out, all four major candidates in the latest French presidential elections had SL campaign headquarters that each received thousands of visitors daily—far more than their real headquarters would ever dream of. Nicolas Sarkozy’s campaign headquarters was its own island; Fran??ois Bayrou’s handed out t-shirts that read, “Sexy Centrist”; at one point, protesters staged riots outside the headquarters of far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen’s headquarters and tossed exploding pigs at security officers...