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In 2008, he pledged 100,000 new ones. He was elected on a promise to revive employment, let workers earn more, and protect their pensions.
He pledged one thing and did another. He deplores worker rights. He supports reducing labor costs and cutting payrolls.
Over 1.4 million lost jobs. Around half a million were industrial ones. Wages and benefits were cut. So were pensions. Austerity harms European workers, including French ones.
Voters want him out. He advanced to a May 6 runoff. Polls show him well behind, though two late ones reflect a closer race. Let them eat cake policies win few friends. Neither does supporting imperial America.
New information surfaced about Gaddafi offering millions to fund his campaign. The French web site Mediapart said it had a 2006 Libyan document Gaddafi's intelligence chief Moussa Koussa signed. It offered Sarkozy $66 million.
"It's a setup, a slanderous" claim, he responded. He accused Mediapart of being a leftist mouthpiece. Opposition candidate Hollande urged judicial authorities investigate. So did Segolene Royal, the 2007 race runner-up. Gaddafi, of course, can't confirm or deny reports. Dead men tell no tales.
Sarkozy's right wing agenda can't be denied. Nor can his hostility to democratic rights, immigrants, Roma, and and Islam.
France has Europe's largest Muslim population. It's about 10% of its populace. Sarkozy calls wearing the burqa a "symbol of enslavement," adding:
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