Parliamentarians transfer loyalty to prime minister

French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be punished in the regional elections, liberal-conservative daily Corriere della Sera predicts, saying that dissatisfaction in the French parliament also indicates this: "For Nicolas Sarkozy this will be the most difficult weekend since he took office. ... But the French aren't waiting for Sunday's results to express their disappointment with the president. A disappointment that has been spreading even in the ranks of the parliamentary majority for some time now, where the star of the gentler yet stricter Prime Minister François Fillon is beginning to rise. Here it's mainly about image, quite apart from the fact that the great procession of reforms that Sarkozy had so loudly announced has come to a standstill under the weight of the economic crisis and the corporate resistance of French society."

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