A year after his election win, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's ratings have nosedived amid irritation at his flamboyant lifestyle and economic woes. But some say the French want to have their cake and eat it. In his victory speech on May 6, 2007, Sarkozy told thousands of people: "I don't have the right to disappoint the country." But a year on, that's exactly what the French president has done. Just over one third of the population say they support the new president, compared with some two-thirds 12 months ago. To begin with, French voters were shocked by his hardly statesman-like behaviour with model Carla Bruni whom he married just weeks after divorcing his second wife Cecilia in October. He gave the impression of a man with his mind on ... well, on other things than the business of government.
In his victory speech on May 6, 2007, Sarkozy told thousands of people: "I don't have the right to disappoint the country."
But a year on, that's exactly what the French president has done. Just over one third of the population say they support the new president, compared with some two-thirds 12 months ago.
To begin with, French voters were shocked by his hardly statesman-like behaviour with model Carla Bruni whom he married just weeks after divorcing his second wife Cecilia in October. He gave the impression of a man with his mind on ... well, on other things than the business of government.
Topless and dressed in suspenders, she stares from the cover of one of Spain's bestselling soft porn magazines. But this is not another of the scantily clad models who feature every week in Interviú, rather it is the niece of the conservative head of Spain's Catholic church, Cardinal Antonio María Rouco Varela.Magdalena Rouco Hernández stripped off to embarrass her uncle, who is head of the Spanish Episcopal Conference and also a friend of Pope Benedict XVI.The mother-of-two posed topless on eight pages of Interviú magazine, whose curious formula consists of generous helpings of female flesh combined with serious investigations.The 27-year-old, who went to mass every day as a girl, said she chose to do the photoshoot to expose her uncle's "hypocrisy" following her father's death. "My uncle never tires of repeating that the family is sacred and that you have to respect it. But then he does not respect it and abandons his own," she said.
Topless and dressed in suspenders, she stares from the cover of one of Spain's bestselling soft porn magazines. But this is not another of the scantily clad models who feature every week in Interviú, rather it is the niece of the conservative head of Spain's Catholic church, Cardinal Antonio María Rouco Varela.
Magdalena Rouco Hernández stripped off to embarrass her uncle, who is head of the Spanish Episcopal Conference and also a friend of Pope Benedict XVI.
The mother-of-two posed topless on eight pages of Interviú magazine, whose curious formula consists of generous helpings of female flesh combined with serious investigations.
The 27-year-old, who went to mass every day as a girl, said she chose to do the photoshoot to expose her uncle's "hypocrisy" following her father's death. "My uncle never tires of repeating that the family is sacred and that you have to respect it. But then he does not respect it and abandons his own," she said.
... an important cardinal who has learned he has less than a year to live. ... The Cardinal (Fernando Rey) wants to go home again, back to the village that his family owns and that he left 30 years before. There are accounts to settle. Still living out the fate to which his desertion consigned them are the woman he made pregnant; their daughter, who has turned into a beautiful cocaine-sniffing whore known as the Cardinaless; a granddaughter who likes to run with the sheep; an unmarried brother (Francisco Rabal), an atheist with sex problems; their pious, pampered, potty matriarch, and the rich vineyards that supply the church with its most prized consecrated wines - at a big loss to the family.
