"With a credit downgrade and an election looming, France's presidential candidates have found similar inspiration. Mr. Sarkozy and Mr. Hollande will both be 57 when the election takes place. That is about all they have in common: in style and in substance, they are as different as can be."
The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : French politics haunted by ghost of Mitterrand: Nicolas Sarkozy is obsessed with Francois Mitterrand; his cunning, his tactical sense, his ability to sense his countrymen's pulse. He admires the genius of a man who came from a conservative political culture to become the leader of the Left, asphyxiating the Communist party, able to change course many times, and yet stay in office for 14 years in a row. As for Mr. Hollande, just watch his gestures during a speech, it is not resemblance, but deliberate mimicry.
The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : French politics haunted by ghost of Mitterrand: Nicolas Sarkozy is obsessed with Francois Mitterrand; his cunning, his tactical sense, his ability to sense his countrymen's pulse. He admires the genius of a man who came from a conservative political culture to become the leader of the Left, asphyxiating the Communist party, able to change course many times, and yet stay in office for 14 years in a row. As for Mr. Hollande, just watch his gestures during a speech, it is not resemblance, but deliberate mimicry.
"Sixteen years after his death, Mitterrand had seemed erased from the French political landscape. Less than a hundred days before the next presidential election, his ghost is back."
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