Kaplony
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Francois Hollande not running for reelection
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38173350
Quote:In a surprise move Francois Hollande has announced he will not seek a second term as president of France.
"I've decided not to be a candidate to renew my mandate," the Socialist leader said in a live televised address.
The 62-year-old, faced with very low popularity ratings, has become the first sitting president in modern French history not to seek re-election.
Conservative Republicans party candidate Francois Fillon is seen as a favourite in next year's election.
Recent opinion polls suggest far-right contender Marine Le Pen from the National Front could be Mr Fillon's closest challenger.
Quote:During his term in office, he devoted all his energy to cutting unemployment, and it had begun to fall but far later than he had hoped.
Since January 2015, Mr Hollande's presidency has been overshadowed by jihadist terror attacks in Paris and Nice and elsewhere. France has been under a state of emergency amid fears of further attack.
Mr Hollande came to power promising a period of normality, after the turbulent centre-right presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy.
But he struggled to introduce reform and faced rebellion from the left wing of his Socialist party.
His judgement was called into question in October, when a book of damaging revelations was published, entitled A President Shouldn't Say That.
He suggested the justice system was full of "cowards" and labelled his left-wing opponents a "crowd of idiots".
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QuestionSocratic
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RE: Francois Hollande not running for reelection
France and the Netherlands could turn sharply right in the next months.
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HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine
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RE: Francois Hollande not running for reelection
Bring back St. Louis or Charles Mantel.
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shiftyeagle
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RE: Francois Hollande not running for reelection
A conservative Catholic is going to win. It's happening.
Let's see if Norbert Hofer wins in Austria tomorrow.
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Bull_Is_Back
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RE: Francois Hollande not running for reelection
(12-01-2016 05:13 PM)QuestionSocratic Wrote: France and the Netherlands could turn sharply right in the next months.
Years of telling your own people that they are the source of not only your nations, but the worlds, problems will eventually turn them against you.
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RE: Francois Hollande not running for reelection
Dude had a 5 percent approval rating
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HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine
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RE: Francois Hollande not running for reelection
Robespierre is disappointed.
France needs to learn that godless, secularism, socialism equals a recipe for failure.
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RE: Francois Hollande not running for reelection
France needs what the whole world needs right now: A moderate who just knows how to work.
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