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Former French First Lady Valerie Trierweiler tore into President Francois Hollande, saying the Socialist leader despises the poor and calls them les san-dents, or the toothless in private.
In a 320-page tell-all book entitled Merci Pour Ce Moment or Thanks for the Moment to be released tomorrow, 49-year-old Trierweiler, who was forced to leave the Elysee presidential palace after Hollandes affair with a French actress, lists what she says are lies told by the president.
He likes to come across as a man who doesnt like the rich, she writes, according to excerpts published today by the daily Le Monde. In reality, the president doesnt like the poor. This the man of the Left, calls them in private the toothless, very proud of his brand of humor.
The books publication and the private comments it shares come as Hollande is sliding again in opinion polls. His popularity has fallen back below 20 percent, near Frances historical low for a president. With joblessness rising for three straight years and a government mutiny forcing him to reshuffle his cabinet, revelations about his private life are adding to his political troubles.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-03/ex-french-first-lady-details-life-with-hollande-in-tell-all-book.html
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Like in the USA, seems the rich in France co-opt every decent thing and Party.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)leftstreet
(36,106 posts)So sorry for his troubles. Not!
If there are neoLiberals and neoConservatives, is he a neoSocialist?
IDemo
(16,926 posts)In fact, it's the stuff of 1%'er economics: deregulation, a "free" market and austerity.
leftstreet
(36,106 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)"socialist fighters" like Carlos Menem, Carlos Andres Pérez, Daniel Ortega, Michael Manley, and Juan Bosch all moved towards neoliberalism 1988-90; Labour, the Dems, and the PRI did so 1988-92