Probably our next president

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The candidate is Alain Juppé, currently mayor of Bordeaux : our likely future president.


Click here for a short announcement of a TV documentary by FOG (Franz-Olivier Giesbert), which France will we watching this evening. If I wanted to be "sarkastic", I would say that Juppé’s major merit is that he’ll save us from Sarkozy.

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