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Candidates 'must sleep'

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La Croix reports most of the French feel presidential candidates are not addressing issues people are most concerned about: jobs, the cost of living and health care. That - and what the candidates are doing during their winter break - is the focus for Thursday 29th December 2011.

IN THE PAPERS
By Nicholas RUSHWORTH

The Catholic daily La Croix leads on a survey showing that 72 % of the French feel their presidential election candidates are not focusing enough on issues that matter to the public.

Aujourd’hui-en-France/Le Parisien profiles those candidates as they take their winter holiday break. It quotes a medical expert who says they “must sleep” ahead of the political campaigning marathon that will end on May 6th.

Libération leads on a move by two ruling party MPs to ban prostitution by criminalizing clients. The paper argues such a measure will only make prostitution less visible.

Libération also looks at classic examples of political jibes in France in decades past with a two-page feature.

And the Communist paper L’Humanité says people working in the public sector who hand out social security benefits are over-worked. The headline there: “Les allocs au bord de la crise de nerfs”.

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Canadites must sleep

by Anonyme - 30/12/2011 - 12:33

You mean the media and broadcasters must sleep,what did Caesar say"Let me have men about,such men that sleep nights,Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,and sees quite thru the deeds of men",well doubt if any of our prats in the western media or broadcasting fall into the category of Cassius.For one they thick,and secondly they employed to write crap for the masses.

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