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May 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Mournful Nicolas Sarkozy fans gathered outside the Elysée Palace early Tuesday
morning to bid farewell, and show support for the out-going president.
A crowd of about 40 people held French flags with messages scrawled on them
like, “Merci Sarkozy” and “For everything you’ve done for France.”
“We came here to support him on his departure,” said 19-year-old Alexis
Patarot. “There’s a feeling of deception that he didn’t get to stay the five
years,” he added.
Others were hopeful Mr Sarkozy would remain in politics. “He’s a political
animal,” said Danielle Goddard, 65. “He’s made us proud. He’s run the
country properly…I felt safe with him, and I can’t say the same for this
one,” she said, referring to president-elect, Francois Hollande.
The ceremony itself will be relatively simple – with no other heads of state
invited – and Hollande will then take an open-topped ride in a Citroen up
the Champs Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe, waving to the crowd.
In separate ceremonies, he will then pay tribute to 19th-century educational
reformer Jules Ferry – father of France’s free, secular education system –
and to Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist.
At 1400 GMT Hollande will fly to Berlin, where he faces an uncertain reception
from Chancellor Angela Merkel, a Sarkozy ally and the main backer of the
European Union’s fiscal austerity drive.
Hollande has vowed to refocus European economic policy on growth by re-opening
talks on a fiscal pact agreed in March that aims to control European debt by
enshrining greater budget discipline.
The deal was Merkel’s brainchild and she has repeatedly insisted since
Hollande’s election that the pact, signed by 25 of the 27 EU countries and
already ratified in some, is not open to renegotiation.
But observers say there is room for compromise, with Hollande likely to agree
to additional stimulus measures without a rewrite of the pact.
And with political paralysis in Greece raising the spectre of the country
being forced from the eurozone, the heads of Europe’s two largest economies
will be keen to reassure worried markets they can work together.
Before he heads to Berlin, Hollande’s first order of business will be to
nominate a prime minister, who will be tasked with forming a government
before a first cabinet session likely on Thursday.
The Socialists have been careful to let nothing slip, but Ayrault, a
62-year-old longtime Hollande ally, is considered first in line for the job.
Other contenders include Socialist Party leader and former labour minister
Martine Aubry, Hollande’s communications director during the campaign,
Manuel Valls, and his campaign and transition chief Pierre Moscovici.
Once the cabinet is named, the focus will move to the Socialists’ campaign to
win a parliamentary majority in June’s legislative elections – a key test
for the party after Hollande’s win.
New official estimates of how the French economy performed in the first
quarter showed that it had not grown, raising fears that it could be heading
for recession.
Mr Hollande has ordered an audit of government finances, but EU forecasts
suggest he will struggle to meet his goal of cutting the deficit to three
percent of gross domestic product by 2013 and balancing the books by 2017.
After Mrs Merkel, Hollande heads to the United States where he is to meet
President Barack Obama at the White House on Friday ahead of back-to-back G8
then NATO summits.
These meetings are also expected to be a test, as he explains his decision to
pull French forces from Afghanistan by the end of 2012, a year ahead of
schedule.
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