"Hyper President" Nicolas Sarkozy

The editorialist Pascal Aubert sees Nicolas Sarkozy as a 'hyper president' ready to burst the boundaries of his office. "It is clear that our new president has learnt some lessons from the past. The position of republican monarch cloistered in the Elysée palace that his recent predecessors adopted doesn't appeal to him. Without bothering with institutional custom, he has no intention of letting anyone else act where he can. Not even, it seems those who are supposed to do so in accordance with the current Constitution, i.e. the government and its Head. The latter has just seen the general policy speech, traditionally delivered by the Prime Minister, taken away from him [Sarkozy delivered it on June 20th, before the members of parliament in his majority]. ... All this is only prefiguring the institutional rupture that the president desires, since he wishes to do tomorrow what the Constitutions forbid him today, to speak before the whole of parliament."

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