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3/17/07

Times of India: Nicolas Sarkozy - "A French political pin-up and incompetent egomaniac amateur with an ultra–personal conception of power"


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Sarkozy - "A French political pin-up and incompetent egomaniac amateur with an ultra–personal conception of power"

The race to become president of France - Europe's most closely watched election this year, with a glamour puss, a go-getter and a Gandhian farmer, among others, vying with each other – approaches the finishing stretch a scant 36 hours from now. But despite acres of newsprint coverage worldwide of the fashionable, chic, unmarried mother-of-four Socialist Party candidate, Segolene Royale, there is still no certainty the country that gave women the right to vote and serve in office only in 1944, 13 years after Sri Lanka, will break new ground by electing its first woman president.

On Saturday, the once-unstoppable 'Sego-for-president' bandwagon ran into a roadblock of huge and immovable proportions, with a disgruntled adviser and respected former party MP publishing a widely-publicised new book attacking the French political pin-up as an incompetent amateur and egomaniac with an "ultra –personal conception of power...(who) uses and abuses demagoguery". Also on Saturday, the dark faultline of France's racial divide threatened to fracture Sarko's support base with his cabinet colleague, Azouz Begag, the Algerian-origin minister for equal opportunities, announcing he would support another candidate, not Sarkozy.

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