Paris prosecutors opened an inquiry Monday into President Nicolas Sarkozy's claim that a document allegedly proving he received 2007 campaign funding from deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is a forgery.
Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday that he will sue the French investigative website Mediapart for publishing a document that it says proved deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi agreed to fund his 2007 election campaign with a 50 million euro cheque.
The last French voters went to the polls in 2007 to elect their president, the Internet played an inconsequential role. Today, the situation is totally different. Voters across the country are participating via micro-blogs, social networks and search engines prompting the leading campaigns to develop comprehensive online strategies.
MEDIAWATCH FRANCE, Thurs. 29/3/2012: Pre-election fever has led to viral videos including a baby with voter apathy. Also, Mohamed Merah's funeral and a song from the series Mad Men gets everyone singing in French. Zoo bisous bisous...
Sarkozy's campaign launch has gone down better with some of the British right-wing papers than it has with the French - others are less impressed, though. We also look at Greece, and rising unemployment in the UK.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a visit to a social housing building site Thursday to highlight his work on this key election issue - but according to builders at the site, many of the ‘workers’ Sarkozy met on the tour had been bussed in.
He’s shed the pounds, he’s dropped the jokes, but does the Socialist front-runner have what it takes to be French president? François Picard’s panel looks at a candidate who’s 20 points ahead in the polls but untested in such a race.
In the run-up to France’s presidential election, have tighter immigration quotas gone too far? François Picard’s panel explains how foreign graduate students have been singled out for deportation.
In the run-up to France’s presidential election, have tighter immigration quotas gone too far? François Picard’s panel explains how foreign graduate students have been singled out for deportation.
A French bill that would allow non-EU foreigners to vote in local elections passed its first hurdle Friday when it was adopted by the upper-house Senate. But the bill stands no chance of passing in the lower house, the National Assembly.
