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...French President Nicolas Sarkozy has always made a point of insisting he won't be hog-tide by ideology, popularity polls, or enduring taboos in his efforts to reform France. But pundits have begun asking whether in reserving himself the right to say anything, Sarkozy hasn't gotten into the habit of contradicting himself by uttering just about everything. Indeed, in the past two weeks alone, various declarations by the president have proven so starkly at odds with one another that some observers are beginning to wonder if he isn't a touch, well, Sarkotic...
...Suspicions that some Sarkozy positions were manifesting split personalities increased on Thursday night, when the president reversed a spree of uncharacteristic - and highly controversial - praises of religion by declaring his devotion to the French state's tradition of secularity. During a recent trip to Saudi Arabia - a country whose official Wahhabism has been criticized from abroad as extreme and intolerant - Sarkozy claimed to know of no country whose "heritage, culture, and civilization wasn't rooted in religion". That followed his comments in the Vatican in late December, where the President praised faith and extolled "France's Christian roots". But given...
...controversial decision to use the corporate jet loaned to him by billionaire friend Vincent Bolloré during his Christmas vacation to Egypt with Bruni. Waving off what detractors called a conflict of interest of accepting free travel from a business mogul, Sarkozy cited the savings it represented to French tax payers who would have funded the official planes he would have used otherwise. Today, French online news source rue89.com reported two official jets had escorted the president anyway...
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That changed on Jan. 16, when the Chief Pleas passed a law mandating universal suffrage and ending the practice of reserving seats for the landed gentry. It also agreed to limit the role of the island's master, known in Sark's French-English patois as the Seigneur, and to make its constitution a democracy...