Former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin says only a miracle will allow him to stand in the upcoming presidential election after he failed to garner the 500 signatures needed by the 16 March deadline to qualify as a candidate.
The ‘Correzian humour’ of the former French President Jacques Chirac continues to fuel debate here in France as presidential politics dominates the news.
All the papers are reacting this morning to President Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet reshuffle. "New government, new priorities," leads the Catholic Daily la Croix.
As one might imagine all the papers (save the Catholic daily La Croix) have gone to town with President Nicolas Sarkozy's long-awaited cabinet reshuffle.
French Prime Minister François Fillon emerged at the head of a more right-wing government Monday, as President Nicolas Sarkozy regrouped for a possible 2012 re-election bid.
