Ever since his nomination as center-right candidate for the French presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy has embarked on rigorous campaign which has included meetings with Tony Blair and a “rare foreign media interview to the Charlie Rose Show” to be broadcasted in the United States. (Herald Tribune) The results of his campaign are lucid: 57% of the respondents of the Le Parisien poll found him to running a stronger campaign than his contender Royal, while in the poll conducted by Ipsos, he was given 54% of the vote in in opposition to Royal’s 46%.
Sarkozy visited London on February 1st to rally 300,000 of London-French population and encourage them to vote for him “to revive France’s ‘blocked society’ that they left behind ‘in desperation’.” (The Economist) Furthermore, the candidate to presidency met with Tony Blair and visited the London job center, asserting his commitment to Tony Blair (whom Sarkozy admires greatly) and his ideology of “pragmatism” and the alleviating of the......
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