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May 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Mayor of the western city of Nantes, the reserved Ayrault was a special
advisor to Hollande’s election campaign, entrusted with liaising with other
European left parties, particularly the opposition Social Democratic Party
(SPD) in Germany.
Behind the scenes, the 62-year-old has carried out sensitive missions for
Hollande. Last year, he met a senior adviser to Merkel in Berlin in an
effort to build ties with her conservative government. A
weaker-than-expected showing by the far-left in the first round of France’s
presidential election on April 22 suggested Ayrault could have a simpler
task in building support for legislation than many Socialists had feared.
Communist-backed candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon finished fourth in the poll with
just 11 percent, suggesting the Socialists may be less reliant on their
far-left neighbours after parliamentary ballots on June 10 and June 17.
Hollande, who like Ayrault comes from the Socialists’ moderate social democrat
wing, insists he wants to hand back influence to the prime minister after
five years in which Nicolas Sarkozy concentrated presidential power.
Hollande is also determined to involve parliament more in euro zone crisis
management after Sarkozy handed control over strategy to a handful of
unelected advisers.
The son of a factory worker, Ayrault has sat in parliament since 1986 and was
initially on the Socialists’ left wing before gradually shifting toward
social democracy.
He, like Hollande, has never held ministerial office. But Ayrault – an admirer
of the German model where parliament is consulted on euro zone policies –
could play a crucial role in coaxing legislative colleagues into backing
crisis measures. “Ayrault has a very parliamentary outlook. He believes the
parliament in France does not have enough influence,” Gougeon said. “And he
knows Hollande very, very well.”
Hollande insisted that he wanted a prime minister with whom he has a strong
personal relationship. One of Ayrault’s first tasks would be to help soothe
relations with Berlin over Hollande’s plan to temper the fiscal compact
signed by 25 EU leaders by adding a growth focus.
“The treaty is incomplete,” Ayrault told Reuters in a recent interview, saying
a supplementary growth pact was required. “We need to discuss this, to
reopen the process. Each side needs to take a step toward the other. We need
to find a consensus.”
But he emphasised that an Hollande government would stick to promises to
balance the budget by the end of its five-year term, after France posted a
deficit of 5.2 percent of GDP last year. “All public spending will be
evaluated to see if it is useful or not,” Ayrault told Reuters. Ayrault long
seemed destined to stay a provincial politician after winning the mayoralty
of Nantes in 1989.
Last week, French media publicised a suspended sentence and 4,500-euro fine
which Ayrault received in 1997 for an improperly tendered contract to print
a Nantes local newspaper, saying this was incompatible with Hollande’s vow
to clean up politics.
Ayrault said he took responsibility for the mistake because he was mayor but
he was not personally involved in the affair. “My personal integrity has
never been questioned. There was never any question of personal enrichment
or political financing. I am an honest man and I will remain an honest man,”
he said.
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