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Presidential Race: Mission impossible for Sarkozy?

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The polls look bad and some of his former allies and ministers are abandoning ship. But Nicolas Sarkozy is still convinced he can be re-elected and beat the odds of other European leaders who have been swept away by the economic crisis. What are his chances?

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By FRANCE 24

On the set:

  • Philip TURLE, Journalist, RFI;
  • Mark DEEN, Journalist, Bloomberg News.
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