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...Movement (UMP), yet regularly issues pithy calls for a total "rupture" of the status quo politics of President Jacques Chirac and his current prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, and a more radical free-market agenda. Merkel's slow descent into parity with the Social Democrats, says political scientist Dominique Reynie??, is "bad news for Sarkozy. It turns out he's making the same mistake as Merkel: talking about a 'rupture' in a country that is afraid...
...candidate's poor showing also undermines Sarkozy's line that France is out of step with its neighbors in its reticence to embrace market and labor reforms. "He always talks about France as an anomaly," says Reynie??. "The idea is that 'the others' have either done reforms or want to, and are doing better than France as a result. Merkel's lackluster showing makes that idea look fragile? - particularly since it comes after the defeat of the conservative Aznar government in Spain, and just after the Hurricane Katrina debacle appeared, in European eyes, to further dim the appeal of President...
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