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May 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Mr Hollande meanwhile met with senior party officials at his campaign
headquarters, where talks focused on securing the Socialists a majority in
the two-round parliamentary vote on June 10 and 17.
“We are closing one period and opening another, that of the parliamentary
elections,” party leader Martine Aubry said. “It is important not
to slacken our efforts.”
Winning in June will be crucial for the Socialists as the president requires a
parliamentary majority to maintain a government – otherwise the prime
minister is in charge of the cabinet.
Mr Sarkozy’s ministers were also starting to focus on the vote, with the trade
and tourism minister, Frederic Lefebvre, saying the centre-right UMP was
confident of claiming a majority in parliament.
“Five weeks from now is the moment of reconquest, five weeks from now is
the road to hope,” he told BFMTV after the cabinet meeting.
Mr Hollande’s transition chief Pierre Moscovici said the handover was going
smoothly and praised Mr Sarkozy for helping things along.
Mr Sarkozy “ran a tough campaign, but he has chosen to make a dignified
exit,” Mr Moscovici told Europe 1 radio. “The handover is taking
place under easy conditions.”
Mr Sarkozy indicated on Sunday that he was retiring from front line politics.
His communications adviser Franck Louvrier said Mr Sarkozy was preparing to
return to his former life as a lawyer at the Paris firm he still partly
owns, after taking a break with his wife Carla Bruni and their baby daughter.
Mr Hollande is facing a packed international agenda after his inauguration and
pressure was already building on the Socialist to stand by France’s
austerity commitments.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has made clear she will not renegotiate the
fiscal pact setting tough budgetary rules for European Union states, which
she spearheaded along with Mr Sarkozy.
In a letter to Mr Hollande on Tuesday, she said she welcomed talks with the
Socialist but that Europe was counting on France and Germany to take the “necessary
decisions” to resolve the bloc’s debt crisis.
A German member of the European Central Bank’s board also warned France to
honour its fiscal commitments.
“I expect France to implement the fiscal pact unchanged,” Joerg
Asmussen told the German daily Handelsblatt in an interview published
Wednesday.
European Commission chief José Manuel Barroso also said Wednesday that there
would be no renegotiation of the pact.
Mr Hollande promised cheering supporters on Sunday that he would reopen talks
to ensure the EU fiscal pact focused on growth rather than simply imposing
deficit-cutting austerity rules.
Source: AFP
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