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François Hollande gave France 24 his first interview since the election of Donald Trump. Will the Paris deal be undone? Speaking in his first interview since the election of Donald Trump, François Hollande gave us his views on the President-Elect. At home Hollande struggles to mount a credible case for reelection as mainstream parties chase after the far-right electorate of Marine Le Pen. How can he win back the disenfranchised who've abandoned the left for the National Front?
The French president is slated to be grilled on prime time television Thursday night. He'll field questions from three journalists and four French citizens about the choices he's made over the past four years on issues that range from unemployment to terrorism to the ‘Up All Night’ movement. The interview is widely seen as François Hollande's attempt to bring his popularity numbers up and explain decisions he's made over the course of his presidency.
In four months François Hollande will no longer be president and with candidates jockeying for position, they're all playing president-elect in speeches that are sometimes live on all-news channels, often for replay only on the Internet. This Wednesday it was the turn of first-round front runner Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate. Will the French really opt for a candidate whose election would certainly spell doom for the Paris-Berlin axis that's powered Europe for half-a-Century?
This week French President François Hollande finally announced that he would not be running for a second term in the upcoming election, Austria and Italy prepared to head to the polls in a decisive election and referendum, Donald Trump announced controversial new cabinet appointments, and Cuba mourned the loss of longtime Communist leader Fidel Castro.
He came out of nowhere to nearly score a first round knockout: François Fillon flattened the field in France's first-ever primaries of the center-right. Who is this 62-year old conservative who mounted a late surge that stole Sarkozy's thunder? With 44% of the vote, next Sunday's runoff seem a formality for Mr. Fillon, but in May he’ll likely face National Front leader Marine Le Pen who's taken her party away from stigmatizing gays, more towards safeguarding the social safety net.
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