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François Hollande has barely started his speech revealing that he won’t be seeking a second term in office. Removal people are already carting away his personal furniture and belongings. Click here to appreciate some well-done presidential humor.

For a current president, there's no better way of gaining popularity than to announce that you'll be abandoning the job. That leaves the way open to both friends and enemies to say publicly that you were a nice fellow. I wonder what would happen if he were to suddenly say: " Now that I see that more people admire me, I think I should change my mind and envisage a second term. " If ever François Hollande were to adopt this approach, I think he should be careful. I'm not very experienced in the domain of presidential counseling. I'm pleased to see that Bernard Cazeneuve has accepted the nice task of guiding both the nation and her chief to the end of an era. He's a courageous gentleman. Above all, he has been a faultless head cop, and he'll surely go down in modern French history for that. As for the outgoing president, I'm not convinced that history will store away a good image of his passage.

What exactly is that white object that the president is waving? Is it a handkerchief... or maybe some kind of female garment? The barrister's past-tense words are hard to understand: " You know, he was a good fellow. " Good for whom?

In the book Un président ne devrait pas dire ça by Gérard Davet and Fabrice Lhomme , the most outlandish « ça » consisted of admitting that a chief of state might decide, outside any kind of legal framework whatsoever, that it is better for the nation that a particular extremely dangerous individual should simply cease to exist. [photo Martin Bureau / AFP] Many observers consider that Hollande was a nincompoop in enabling the publication of this secret information. One might imagine that, in doing so, he discarded his moral right to remain at the head of France. I do not intend to say publicly whether or not I share these opinions.

In The New York Times , the journalist Adam Nossiter has written an article [ here ] about the French president François Hollande . The author looks upon Hollande as a living dead specimen who seems to be politically alive. Our president “ still occupies the magnificent gilded Élysée Palace, still gives speeches attended by important people and still attends ribbon-cuttings ”, whereas nobody believes for an instant that he’ll survive the forthcoming presidential election. Hollande’s most unexpected recent attack—not only on his enemies, but on his former friends and associates—was a book of “secrets” published by two journalists, Gérard Davet and Fabrice Lhomme . It's title in English : A President Shouldn't Say Such Things . In earlier days, François Hollande could only be bruised by a very tough opponent. Nowadays, he succeeds in doing the job all on his own.