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March 7th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
He also unveiled plans to limit some welfare benefits currently available to
immigrant workers to those who have enjoyed residency for ten years and have
worked for five of those.
Mr Sarkozy had already sparked controversy ahead of last night’s programme by
calling for all kosher and halal products to be labelled to inform consumers
whether food is prepared in accordance with Islamic and Jewish law.
The proposal followed Miss Le Pen’s claims that kosher and halal meat is being
sold in French supermarkets with no notification to customers.
Mr Sarkozy believes securing the far-Right vote is the only way to gain
sufficient momentum to finish ahead of Mr Hollande in round one of elections
on April 22 and in a second round run-off on May 6.
But the food labelling proposals have been sharply criticised by leading
representatives of France’s Jewish and Muslim communities and split his own
Right-wing UMP party.
Alain Juppé, the foreign minister, criticised the debate as a “false
problem” while François Fillon, the prime minister fuelled controversy
by urging Muslims and Jews to abandon the notion of halal and kosher foods
outright, saying they were outdated.
Mr Sarkozy’s push Right came as a fresh poll suggested Mr Hollande had widened
his lead in round one to 30 per cent support, up two percentage points,
while Mr Sarkozy gained one point to 28 per cent.
But Mr Hollande enjoys a wide lead over Mr Sarkozy in round two, the CSA poll
found, beating him by 54 per cent to 46 per cent, unchanged from the
previous month.
Another poll found that 74 per cent of French people said their mind was made
up concerning Mr Sarkozy.
Miss Le Pen, head of the far-Right National Front, fell back two percentage
points to 15 per cent support in the first round, while leftist Front de
Gauche candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon gained 1 point to 10 per cent.
The poll found that a large majority of French voters were disappointed by a
campaign, complaining of too much mud-slinging and not enough emphasis on
policy.
On Tuesday night, Mr Sarkozy once again laid into his Socialist rival, saying
he was surprised he was their candidate as he had “never led anything”
and “doesn’t know how to say no”.
Mr Sarkozy’s popularity rose slightly after his official campaign launch in
which he promised to be the president of the people against elites,
countering claims he has spent five years being the “president of the
rich”.
But Mr Hollande gained ground with a surprise pledge to introduce a 75 per
cent income tax rate for those earning more than €1 million (£830,000) a
year – a move 61 per cent of the French back, one poll found.
With voters’ mind increasingly made up, Le Parisien newspaper wrote: “The
result of the election is a foregone conclusion”. Libération, the
left-wing daily, said that the French had “solidly and profoundly
fallen out of love with the outgoing President”.
All eyes are now on a huge rally in Villepinte near Paris on Sunday before up
to 60,000 supporters – which his camp hopes will set him back on course.
Mr Sarkozy also took a swipe at Britain during his interview, saying
unemployment in the UK had shot up 60 per cent in the past five years while
France had only 17 per cent more job seekers – a figure only bettered by
Germany.
He repeatedly apologised for unpresidential behaviour early on in his mandate,
saying he “made a mistake” in helping his son Jean become head of France’s
biggest business district and famously telling a farmer who insulted him in
2008 to “get lost you stupid jerk”.
But he strenuously denied opposition claims he was the “president of the
rich”, calling them a “shameful lie”. “France is the country with the
highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden…something of which I am not
proud,” he said.
“It is the only one in Europe to have kept a tax on big fortunes.”
In a fierce debate with the former Socialist prime minister, Laurent Fabius,
he said: “I don’t have many lessons to receive from a man who backed
Dominique Strauss-Kahn for President.”
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