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February 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Mr Sarkozy’s opponents quickly jumped on the metaphor. Centrist Model
candidate François Bayrou said: “When the captain has led the ship onto a
reef…change is needed.”
Expressing “relief” at finally being on the campaign trail, Mr Sarkozy laid
into his Socialist rival, saying: “Is it really reasonable to say we have
the means to employ 60,000, is it reasonable to say we are going to give all
immigrants papers (not one of Mr Hollande’s promises)?”
Francois Hollande has dismissed Mr Sarkozy’s bid as a ‘fiasco’ (Reuters)
The president-candidate also revealed his choice slogan: “La France Forte”
(Strong France).
One commentator quipped that given Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany’s
support for Mr Sarkozy, perhaps it was supposed to sound like “Frankfurt”.
The President re-iterated his pledge to stage referendums on welfare reform
and toughening up immigration laws. “Lots of French feel dispossessed of
their power…Every time there is a blockage, the French people will settle
it,” he said.
The suspense over Mr Sarkozy’s candidacy was carefully choreographed
throughout the day, starting with him firing messages on his newly opened
Twitter account – already followed by 53,000 people last night.
France’s most unpopular President at this stage in his mandate, Mr Sarkozy
hopes his legendary campaigning skills will help him now close the gap on
his lower-octane Socialist rival. The latest survey published yesterday by
Harris Interactive, forecast that Mr Hollande would win the first round on
April 22 with 28 percent to Sarkozy’s 24 then walk the run-off with 57
percent to 43 on May 6.
Far-Right National Front Marine Le Pen is still in striking distance in round
one, on 20 per cent. Miss Le Pen dismissed Mr Sarkozy on Wednesday as a
“magician whose strings can be seen sticking out of his suit”.
The incumbent faces a taller order than any of his predecessors but he could
yet pull it off, according to a top French pollster.
“If he succeeds it would become a textbook case in French electoral history
for an incumbent president to come back from such lows in popularity, in
personal image, in voting intentions and public confidence – it has never
been done before,” said Roland Cayrol, head of the CSA polling institute.
Last night’s announcement would not give Mr Sarkozy a huge boost as his
candidacy “comes as not the slightest surprise, but “he is a formidable
campaigner, with talents that nobody else around has”, Mr Cayrol told the
Daily Telegraph.
“His strategy is to speak to centrists about the economy and wrenching France
out of the crisis, and to the most conservative voters, including the
far-Right about values such as welfare rights, immigration, opposition to
gay marriage.
Members of Mr Sarkozy’s centre-Right UMP party have been champing at the bit
to hit the campaign trail.
“It’s a turning point. We are entering another world, that of the campaign,”
said Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Sarkozy’s ecology minister, his campaign
spokeswoman.
“Now the real campaign starts,” Alain Juppé, the French foreign minister told
French radio.
The president received a surprise message of support on Twitter from his
second wife, Cécilia Attias, who left him shortly after he took office in
2007. “Good luck to Nicolas Sarkozy, who is starting his campaign today,”
she tweeted.
But the Socialists dismissed the announcement as unimportant.
“The French just aren’t interested in this kind of communication, they just
want us to deal with their problems.” said party secretary Martine Aubry.
Mr Sarkozy will start 67 days of campaigning on Thursday with a visit to a
cheese factory in the Alpine town of Annecy, following by a mass rally in
Marseille on Sunday.
His appearance on TF1 coincided with Mr Hollande’s second major campaign
speech in his home town of Rouen.
Mr Hollande mocked the Sarkozy mandate as a “fiasco” to a crowd of 10,000 in
the town. “The script is written…he will try to turn his weaknesses into
strengths. He got it wrong for five years and that counts as experience!” he
told them.
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