The French Presidential election centrist candidate, Francois Bayrou, horse breeder and farmer, calls for a government of national unity to replace the two party system of failed promises. The emergence of this ‘third man’ has upset Sarkozy, the 51 year old Interior Minister and Royal, 53, the first woman in France with a real chance of becoming President. Bayrou, his campaign logo is his beloved, recently refurbished 1952 Pony tractor, distances himself from the unpopular Parisian elite whose politicians went to the same schools. Bayrou, a former Education Minister, heads the Union for French Democracy since 1998, ‘we must get people working together, instead of opposing each other’. Bayrou cites Germany’s Chancellor, Frau Angela Merkel grand coalition as an example of a country effectively pulling together. Royal seems more at risk from ‘Bayrou mania’, it has exposed fractures inn the French left. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a Socialist colleague, offered to campaign for Bayrou. This week, Eric Besson, a former economist on her team, published a book entitled ‘Who knows Madame Royal?, stating that he does not want her to become President of the Republic because her campaign manifesto is pure invention. The first round of voting on 22nd April reduced the candidates to Royal ans Sarkozy.. Sarkozy fulfilled his childhood ambition to become President of France 16th May 2007 with 53% as against 47% of the vote to Royal Sarkozy promises extra pay, untaxed, for longer working hours. Sarkozy proposes a Mediterranean Alliance with Spain, Zapatero has endorsed this alliance and hopefully this will include North African countries in a trade alliance. Sarkozy opposes Turkey''s incorporation into the EU.Sarkozy is described as a human dynamo streaming with ideas.
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