Epstein Secrets

ject Syndicate EFTA00630455 Sarkozy at Dusk Dominique Moisi 2012-02-21 —And the next French President will be...the Socialist Party's candidate Francois Hollande. A month ago, any prediction uttered with such certainty would have sounded imprudent, if not foolish. Uncertainty prevailed. Four candidates domin

n-off. Indeed, the race looked more open than ever in recent memory. Suddenly, something happened — not an event in itself (though it started with Hollande's first great public rally in mid-January), but rather something that may resemble an irresistible process that can be summarized as follows: a maj

gering doubts about his gravitas, not to mention serious concerns about the realism or the wisdom of his program. But, unlike his former companion, Segolene Royal, who challenged Sarkozy for the presidency in 2007, he looks and sounds "real." From now on, the campaign appears set to be transformed into a clas

some but not all of the rights of marriage.) At times, the debate has gotten personal. When Valerie Trierweiler, the partner of France's president, Francois Hollande<http://topics.nytimes.comitopireferenceitimestopics/people/h/francoishollande/index.html?inline=nyt- per>, announced that if the law came into effect

a kind of "marriage light." It is so popular as an alternative to marriage that in 2010, there were four civil unions for every five marriages. Mr. Hollande, who made passage of the same-sex law a campaign promise, is a model for unmarrieds. He never married Segolene Royal, the mother of his four childre

unions for every five marriages. Mr. Hollande, who made passage of the same-sex law a campaign promise, is a model for unmarrieds. He never married Segolene Royal, the mother of his four children; she called herself "a free woman" and marriage a "bourgeois institution" when she ran unsuccessfully for president

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n-off. Indeed, the race looked more open than ever in recent memory. Suddenly, something happened — not an event in itself (though it started with Hollande's first great public rally in mid-January), but rather something that may resemble an irresistible process that can be summarized as follows: a maj

gering doubts about his gravitas, not to mention serious concerns about the realism or the wisdom of his program. But, unlike his former companion, Segolene Royal, who challenged Sarkozy for the presidency in 2007, he looks and sounds "real." From now on, the campaign appears set to be transformed into a cl