Tema destacado del Lunes, 7. Mayo 2007

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Can Nicolas Sarkozy reform France?

The right-wing candidate Nicolas Sarkozy won the French presidential election on May 6th with 53 % of votes ahead of 47 for the socialist candidate Ségolène Royal. The European press is wondering if Nicolas Sarkozy, who based his campaign on the theme of 'rupture', will be in a position to apply his programme.

Der Standard - Austria

"In his campaign speeches, Sarkozy loved to portray himself as a representative of the ideology of meritocracy, which glorifies competition, personal initiative, social climbing and a free market society," Christoph Winder observes. "Though Sarkozy's opponent tried her best to brand him as a dangerous neo-liberal of the American model... the French stood up for change... The question now is how strongly Sarkozy wants - and is able - to carry out his promise 'to solve France's moral crisis.' There's more than enough to deal with, from the enormous national debt to the poor integration of youth in the job market to the unresolved problem of the suburbs. To tackle this Herculean task, Sarkozy first has to actually turn himself into the president for all French people that he purports to be. To do that, he admittedly needs a more integrative political style than what he's cultivated up to now." (07/05/2007)

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El País - España

The daily recalls the fact that Sarkozy will have a hard time applying his programme if his party fails to win the legislative elections. "All of Europe has long awaited France. It can still wait until June, if that is what it takes for this country, which plays a key role, to regain its intellectual, economic and social vitality. We have to hope that Sarkozy manages, through his reforms, to get France out of the rut it stumbled into all by itself. The new President declared that France 'is back in Europe', and this in a barely concealed spirit of protectionism. He does not want to submit the European Constitution to a French referendum. He is campaigning in favour of a mini-treaty. This may prove to be the only solution, but the points in the original text that represent a move forward should be defended as much as possible. A strong Europe needs a healthy France. But France also needs an EU endowed with a real decision-making capacity." (07/05/2007)

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Die Welt - Alemania

French political scientist Alfred Grosser worries that the new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, could get even more power than Jacques Chirac – that is, if his party wins the parliamentary elections in June. "Sarkozy says he wants a non-partisan country. But he'd be president of a republic in which all of those who were of service to him would get the top posts in the police and administration... Sarkozy says the president will play a larger role, but in fact that has been the case for quite a while, even if the constitution says the opposite. There, it says the president actually has little power, as is evident in the shared role. Because the Prime Minister has a free hand when it comes to economic and social policy, as was the case from 1997 to 2002 with Chirac and Lionel Jospin. But as soon as the president also has the parliamentary majority, he becomes truly all-powerful." (07/05/2007)

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De Volkskrant - Holanda

"These elections have constituted a political awakening that is a joy to see in France", considers the Dutch daily. "The result has essentially been welcomed with satisfaction in most European capitals. This is not only because Sarkozy wants to avoid a referendum on a new, heavily abridged version of the European Constitution, but also, and maybe mostly, because he has a far more reforming and wilful profile than Royal. Social and economic reforms are more than necessary in France, a country that sets the pace of Europe's routine. Of course, the word reform is easier to pronounce than to put into practice, especially in France where what is decided upon in the political arena is often blocked on the streets." (07/05/2007)

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La Tribune - Francia

"By carrying Nicolas Sarkozy to the Elysée, the French have knowingly made a powerful choice for a profound change in France", considers the editorialist François-Xavier Pietri. "The choice of Nicolas Sarkozy, the man who people tried to cloak in dubious doubts that have just been brushed away by one fell swoop from French voters, is full of meaning. For, if there is one thing we can say about the candidate, it is that he has set the tone: that of a disinhibited, modern right, rid of the paralysing fear of voters or the street, that muffled fear that, little by little, caught Jacques Chirac up in a net woven with both stubborn stasis and fickleness. ... Let's boldly pronounce that word: rupture, it is a project of rupture. And it is this rupture that voters clearly chose yesterday and that now remains to be put in motion." (07/05/2007)

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Hospodářské noviny - La República Checa

It won't be easy for France's new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, says Lenka Zlamalova. "His most important opponent could become the street. Strikes, demonstrations and burning autos are the language of political struggle in France. It was the street that thwarted all previous attempts at reform. In 1996, a week-long strike against the proposed reforms of conservative Prime Minister Alain Juppé paralyzed the entire country. Last year, students occupied Paris when Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin suggested altering work contracts for youth. But Sarkozy does have one advantage over the two: He is president. The others were only prime ministers, whom Jacques Chirac ultimately did not keep in office. But it is currently hard to predict how Sarkozy would behave when faced with millions of strikers." (07/05/2007)

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Le Courrier - Suiza

"The opportunity to modernise French politics, at least in appearance, by electing a woman was too good to be true. But Nicolas swept it aside with a score of 53 %. Jacques Chirac's successor will seek to prove that he is able to 'break away' from the style of his political father who has been stuck in a distant and sterile presidency for twelve years in a row. So far, however, the candidate Sarkozy has only had to feint novelty before having to actually walk his talk", explains Fabio Lo Verso, who has serious doubts about the victor's actual will to reform France. "Nicolas Sarkozy called for 'rupture' throughout his campaign. The France he is preparing to forge is a narrow-minded, arrogant, pedantic France, foolhardy towards it's reduction of social security and haunted by an obsession with security that he is preparing to forge, perfectly in line with his predecessor." (07/05/2007)

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