Sarkozy second term The National Day of Quatorze Juillet in office President Nicolas Sarkozy for the third time in a military parade and the Garden Party at the Elysée Palace as a proud host. The previously as nervous-looking "Hyper President" is the discreet and relaxed, he is preparing for a long time at the head of state of France.
He had now a president "in the best or worst case, seven years" before him, said Nicolas Sarkozy a few days before the deputies and senators of his ruling party UMP. It provides all the results of the elections every reason to be satisfied with himself and the nation. For the first time in ages was at the election of deputies to the Strasbourg European Parliament, the ruling party or coalition is not punished. And that alone Sarkozy said already in such a confident mood winner that after only a little over two years in office, even with his good cheer Re-elected in 2012 counted and makes plans for a second five-year mandate.
The infamous for his haste so that a French president admitted indirectly that he needs to implement his reforms in France is much more time than he originally thought. As almost always, it came after the May 2007 First differently, and second, very different, as Nicolas Sarkozy said. He wanted to be the "president of purchasing power" and so make the French the importance of the work to the value added popular. When shifted to the radical economic downturn, the economic sign for the governance and government policy, Sarkozy had to remove one Slump in the favor of the French people to accept. But as unforgiving as the political scientists and journalists thought this was enraged people did not want. At least do the politically ubiquitous Sarkozy, which he could not resigned and is, in the vernacular.
Sarkozy has also learned to handle their personal image and that of his glamorous wife Carla Bruni better to not shock as in the beginning with his penchant for luxury or clumsy bragging. In an interview with the magazine "Nouvel Observateur, he drew an unusually even modest interim report and admitted it even" certain errors "field. He regretted that he in the heat of battle at the Paris agriculture fair a rude passer was over that he did not want to shake hands in greeting, and his abusive "con Casse-toi, pauvre," a now proverbial ("Go away, you idiot!"). In his defense, he argued that the responsible Presidency of the Republic was a "truly inhuman function. In this case, however, he has even with his own unique power for France skills equipped office function created. With its numerous staff of advisers, the President de facto government is actually present any decision and no nomination without the blessing from the very top of the Elysée Palace. The ministers have traces. And who the boss careworn or the "public" negative notice, which must, as it had to learn such as Justice Minister Rachida Dati, housing minister Christine Boutin or the Secretary of State for Sports, Bernard Laporte, the consequences have
Sarkozy has in international politics on the side of Angela Merkel, Silvio Berlusconi and Gordon Brown a spot in the front row secured. His performances on the side of Barack Obama reinforced his self-confidence and prestige in their own country. Too much illusions about the government policy, the people from this. A majority of citizens, according to surveys remain very skeptical about the chances of success of economic and social policy. But with rund 30 bis 40 Prozent der Leute, die sich laut Popularitätsumfragen weiterhin positiv zur Person des Staatsoberhaupts äussern, kann Sarkozy sich auf eine solide Vertrauensbasis abstützen. Dies umso mehr, als auf der politischen Gegenseite niemand auch nur im Entferntesten als Alternative glaubwürdig wäre. Denn in einem Punkt hat Sarkozy einen durchschlagenden Erfolg zu feiern: Seine Politik der Öffnung und der Abwerbung von Politikern aus den Reihen der Opposition hat vor allem die Linke völlig aus dem Tritt gebracht.
Weil etliche der UMP-Parlamentarier diese Klüngelei mit ehemaligen Gegnern nicht besonders schätzen, deckte ihnen Sarkozy seine Karten auf: "Die ganze Strategie der Öffnung bringt uns zwar keine only one vote (in elections), but they demobilized the enemy. "In particular, it was succeeded by his turn in the field of environmental and climatic issues and also in the cultural policy to undermine the left the water. Even in a crisis policy, the President hardly ideological fear of contact when he calls for more government regulation or either on your own moral and then a law-reaching limitation of compensation for private business leaders and top managers. The promised budget discipline is placed on ice, for 2010 announced Sarkozy without regard to the rapidly growing debt a large state bond issue to finance public investments.
Die französischen Sozialisten bemängelten, sie hätten sich statt dessen vermehrt auch eine staatliche Förderung des Privatverbrauchs über Massnahmen zur Stärkung der Kaufkraft der Niedrigverdiener oder Rentner vorgestellt, und sie kritisieren, es sei eine eigenartige Methode, eine zusätzliche Verschuldung in Kauf zu nehmen, ohne genau zu wissen, was denn mit diesen von den französischen Bürgern zur Verfügung gestellten Ersparnissen wirklich finanziert werden müsse. Als Antwort auf diese Einwände beauftragte Sarkozy zwei frühere allgemein respektierte Premierminister, den Gaullisten Alain Juppé und den Sozialisten Michel Rocard, damit, ihm Vorschläge zu unterbreiten, die über jeden Verdacht ideological bias or myopia are sublime.
By blurring the traditional boundaries of party families targeted, Nicolas Sarkozy is very historic tradition of the "Bonapartist" by Napoleon III., Since the end of the 19th Century as a model of head of state is used. All in the pose of the country's father, who is above trivial disputes, Sarkozy preaches compensation and solidarity in these difficult times. But you can not deceive himself when Sarkozy defended theses supposedly a socialist politics, he does so not out of conviction or principle, but from a purely tactical considerations. This gives him a freedom of movement, which he just in the context of the crisis required. In return, he takes into account that the political contours of his own party are blurred. Under the unifying umbrella of the UMP (Union pour un Mouvement Populaire), there is growing clubs and satellite parties, that differences such as fine cracks in the consensus will be visible. Ttrotz now the undisputed authority of the chiefs at the Elysee Palace to see some right-wing politicians (such as the Parliament Speaker Jean-Francois Cope and ex-Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin) have already considered potential rivals of the current president.
Rudolf Balmer, Paris 13.07.2009
