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Rex Posted 19 years ago
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Lights out
1 b 00 Nicolas Sarkozy has been the front runner in every French election poll since Christmas, but over the past few days he has faced an onslaught of criticism about his personality and has had to answer about whether he has the right temperament to govern France. 02 b 02 br
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00 The Socialist candidate Segolene Royal accused her conservative counterpart of being the "candidate for brutality", while the former equal opportunities minister, Azouz Begag, claimed Mr Sarkozy had once threatened to punch his lights out. 02 br
00 Mr Sarkozy was obliged to defend his reputation on prime time French television, acknowledging that he did frighten some people but reassuring voters that the same had once been said of President Mitterrand and President Chirac. 02 br
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00 Spending a day with him on the campaign trail in Metz, I quickly understood that the former interior minister is buzzing with nervous energy. 02 br
00 I watched him address a group of former miners at a closed mine - as he told them that France needed to work harder, the veins on his temples bulged and he jabbed his finger at them like a strict school teacher. 02 br
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00 The Socialist candidate Segolene Royal accused her conservative counterpart of being the "candidate for brutality", while the former equal opportunities minister, Azouz Begag, claimed Mr Sarkozy had once threatened to punch his lights out. 02 br
00 Mr Sarkozy was obliged to defend his reputation on prime time French television, acknowledging that he did frighten some people but reassuring voters that the same had once been said of President Mitterrand and President Chirac. 02 br
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00 Spending a day with him on the campaign trail in Metz, I quickly understood that the former interior minister is buzzing with nervous energy. 02 br
00 I watched him address a group of former miners at a closed mine - as he told them that France needed to work harder, the veins on his temples bulged and he jabbed his finger at them like a strict school teacher. 02 br
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