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I haven't been able to read today's Canard Enchainé, which must have juicy bits on the backroom story. Its front page, visible here suggests that there is an "armed truce" between Villepin and Sarkozy.

In earlier editions last month, it was reporting Sarkozy's glee at having hard info to bring down at least Villepin, and "Chirac's entourage".

This is certainly not over...

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed May 3rd, 2006 at 11:42:05 AM EST
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I may be wrong, but now I can't help but feel this is going further than anything Sarkozy could feel gleeful about.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed May 3rd, 2006 at 12:00:19 PM EST
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We can only hope. Is this a scandal that could take out all the hopefuls from the right wing?
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed May 3rd, 2006 at 12:12:15 PM EST
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Sarkozy looks like the sacrificial lamb in this, but he, Chirac, and Villepin are from the same party. If it blows up, a significant chunk of voter support might move elsewhere.

Unfortunately, "elsewhere" would probably include Le Pen along with the centre-right and the left...

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed May 3rd, 2006 at 12:44:39 PM EST
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That's what it sounds like form what I can read of the front page of le Canard - he's increasingly worried that the fallout will include him, and he may need to help Villepin.

But the relationship is so noxious that the longer it goes, the likelier they are to both be damaged goods.

Or Villepin is utterly destroyed, Sarkozy is called as PM, and Chirac (plus the job) destroys him there.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed May 3rd, 2006 at 12:52:49 PM EST
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