Why do the French dislike both Sarkozy? / on 4/22/2012 11:47:00 AM

 

Why do the French dislike both Sarkozy?

The presidential elections in France Sunday for many French people have a form of informal referendum on Sarkozy five years. Since he became president in 2007, it became evident that it was more obnoxious to the French as far as all his predecessors in the 5th Republic. This is an antipathy that has nothing to do with his policies. It's personal.
The BBC says that "all the leaders are expected to cause enmity with their actions. Few cause it so much because of their personality. "
"There is an irrational hatred of Nicolas Sarkozy in which he plays a big role in this election," says Jean-Sébastien Ferzou, editor of news website «Atlantico». "Polls show that if you ask the world to one or another policy of Sarkozy - but did not mention his name - tend to support it. But it's not going to vote. "
In the Ferzou "sarkofovia" because for years, the French right had given the ideological debate on the left. "The only argument was that the right wing were top managers from the left. They could manage things better. But they had handed in their weapons in the battle of ideas and values. " Sarkozy put an end to this "tacit agreement" and "people hated him for it."
Many French people believe the "flesh" vulgar, filochrimato, semi-racist and dangerous. The director Mathieu Kasovits said recently that if the president passed the second round of elections, will show that France is a "neo-fascist" country.
To BBC notes that the French still consider that the flamboyant Sarkozy dined at the upscale restaurant Champs Elysées «Le Fouquet» to celebrate his victory in 2007 elections. But when in 2002 the wife of the Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin in the election he said in a magazine that you shop from a gourmet food store, it was considered acceptable because it was a sophisticated display of wealth.
Another interpretation of "sarkofovias" gives Berkof Andre, author of «La Chasse au Sarko» («The Hunting of the flesh). He believes the real reason why people dislike the president is not "the Le Fouquet, the blingk blingk-and all this nonsense. It failed because the rules of how to be a president. When De Gaulle founded the 5th Republic, created a chair that looked like a monarchy. Since then, all presidents, left and right, follow this line. But when it came Sarkozy said "I do not want to be king but a politician. I want to be like a football coach." And the people really dislike about it. "
The Ferzou states that "more than 60% of those saying they would vote for the Socialist Francois Åland say they will do just to get rid of Sarkozy."
The "flesh" is disliked and abroad
The Pouarie Agnes, a French journalist in London, says a recent poll in which European leaders chose Sarkozy as the most famous personality but also as the least sympathetic.
"From the beginning it seemed very different from its predecessors: a French president was suddenly fascinated by America, who loved the gaudy ornaments and money and was in favor of easing regulations and capitalism," he says.
"The relationship in the eyes of the paparazzi with the former top model Carla Bruni, after a bitter divorce from his second wife, strengthened its profile internationally. But what his counterparts might remember more from Sarkozy is his character: fast but rough, but dynamic and unpredictable, especially apsys. "