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...mayor, and for the next 19 years Neuilly's unwavering support served as the base of his campaign for higher office. So, it may be a sign of how far the fortunes of (now President) Sarkozy have fallen that his party's candidate for mayor of Neuilly, David Martinon, has quit his campaign for next month's municipal elections after encountering formidable opposition precisely because of his close ties to the man now in the Elysée Palace...
...Indeed, in stark contrast with decades of French intervention to save beleaguered friendly governments in its former African colonies, Elysée spokesman David Martinon stressed that the focus of the French government was "assuring that all the arrangements had been made to assure the safety of our nationals". Paris dispatched a French Army Airbus to N'Djamena Saturday to begin an airlift back to France when the situation allows it, but showed none of the readiness to put down a rebellion that had had been par for the course when Paris still considered Francophone Africa as France's back...
...France. "These comments are evidence that there remains a minority of political actors in Algeria who want to undermine friendship and partnership with France - and who thereby provide all the more motivation for President Sarkozy to make the visit as planned," explained Elysée spokesman David Martinon. "We have important things to do and say together, including problems of racism and anti-Semitism that President Sarkozy will also speak unflinchingly about...
...placate the growing power of Islamist-influenced rightists, Sarkozy clearly believes abandoning his trip in protest would be giving Abbès and his allies just what they want. "It's clear there are small but vocal majorities who want relations between the countries to worsen, not improve," Martinon explains. "We won't play into their hands by taking their bait...
...viewed as decisive in brokering a solution, his rather predictable comments Tuesday suggest he's willing to risk the strikes continuing into next week, when he'll return from an extended visit to China. "We're not going to try to predict the unstable nature of French protest movements," Martinon says. "We'll just keep focused on applying reforms voters elected the President to carry...