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French media nostalgic for 'Sarko'

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He's on the front page of magazines almost every week; cartoonists say his leaving office was a "catastrophe" for them. The French media definitely miss Nicolas Sarkozy! They perhaps miss him than the public does, if we're to believe a recent poll saying that 55% of the French don't want "Sarko" back.

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