FRANCE 24 – It was billed as “The Final Confrontation” and that’s exactly what millions of TV viewers across France got Wednesday night as incumbent French President Nicolas Sarkozy squared off against his Socialist challenger, François Hollande, in an intensely contested face-off, the only debate of the 2012 campaign.
Hollande’s strategy centered on criticising the French president’s economic policies during his five years in office, a period that saw France lose its AAA credit rating and the number of jobless people reach four million.
But Sarkozy took a critical position from the start, maintaining he was being unfairly blamed for France’s economic problems after years of crisis, and insisted he’s not “the only guilty one.’ more> http://is.gd/gm0i9K
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