Remember Nicolas Sarkozy, the free marketer? Sarkozy was a successful French interior minister. His leadership was marked by his courage.
During the French local elections in March, Sarkozy argued that the right’s economic reforms had been poorly sold to the voters, concluding that the “French people are demanding that we go faster”.
On the cult French satirical television programme Les Guignols, he is even portrayed as a seedy salesman, flogging gold watches pinned to the inside of his raincoat.
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