Sarkozy's rise an echo of a younger, harder-driving Chirac
China Daily | Updated: 2007-05-14 07:03
He won the presidency on promises of change for a morose France fed up with soaring joblessness, and he was openly fond of the United States.
That was Jacques Chirac in 1995.
Fast-forward to May 2007: Same scenario, same ambition, but this time the star is Nicolas Sarkozy, and the language of change is even more forceful.
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