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Nicolas Sarkozy
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Jun 21, 2005 07:43pm |
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| Category | Profile |
| Media | TV News - British Broadcasting Corporation BBC News |
| News Date | Monday, November 29, 2004 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Love him or hate him, Nicolas Sarkozy is in a hurry to get to the top and you simply cannot avoid him.
Every French news bulletin features the man who made his mark as an authoritarian interior minister - tough on crime, and tough on immigration.
Then he was handed the poisoned chalice of the finance ministry - with the Sisyphean task of trying to balance the nation's books. Yet still, he was able to secure the highest approval ratings of anyone in government.
"He's hyperactive, he's ambitious, he's a heavy worker, a workaholic, he never rests," says Anita Hausser, who wrote a biography of Mr Sarkozy and is political editor at the French broadcaster LCI.
"He was a lawyer, so he seems close to the people, and he wants to show them that he understands their problems and that he will solve their problems."
The son of a Hungarian immigrant, and a mother whose family was Greek and Jewish, he was never the classic insider. And unusually, one of his main political influences is not French but British, according to his other biographer, Nicolas Domenach.
"He admires Tony Blair hugely - for many reasons," he says.
"Tony Blair was able to seduce the media, in the way Sarkozy does. And Sarkozy looks at how Tony Blair was able to sell his political ideology." |
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