France's Sarkozy sails into storm over luxury holiday

EV_Ares

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France's Sarkozy sails into storm over luxury holiday

05-08-2007, 22h30
PARIS (AFP)

French President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy addresses journalists before jogging near the southern Maltese town of Delimara, 09 May 2007. Sarkozy has defiantly rejected criticism of his holiday on a luxury yacht owned by a billionaire businessman friend.
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France's new right-wing leader Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday defiantly rejected criticism of his holiday on a luxury yacht owned by a billionaire businessman friend.

"I don't see why there is a controversy," he told journalists as he jogged on the Mediterranean island of Malta, saying the holiday had not cost the French taxpayer a penny. "I have no intention of apologising."

The president-elect flew to Malta with his wife Cecilia and their 10-year-old son Louis on Monday to relax and prepare his new goverment after his weekend election victory over the Socialist Segolene Royal.

They arrived there on a Falcon jet belonging to industrialist Vincent Bollore and then boarded a 60-metre (200-foot) yacht also owned by Bollore.

But the secretive high-budget retreat quickly drew flak from political opponents and the media who saw in it a sign of bad taste and a suggestion he would be beholden to big business.

(entire article @ link below)

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=175286

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msongs

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Wed May-09-07 08:59 AM
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1. let them eat cake? nt

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Dhalgren

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Wed May-09-07 09:03 AM
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2. Man! You can't slip one passed these guys!

The "media ... saw in it as ... a suggestion he would be beholden to big business." Duh...ya' think?

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zbdent

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Wed May-09-07 09:29 AM
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3. But is there video of him primping his $400 haircut in front of a mirror?

Then it's not news ...

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magellan

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Wed May-09-07 09:35 AM
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4. They're all the same

I'd be ashamed of an election win made possible only through the votes of neo-nazis and corporate whores, but this seems to be a source of pride among conservatives everywhere.

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EV_Ares

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Wed May-09-07 09:35 AM
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5. Look @ The Difference In The Headlines On This:

Edited on Wed May-09-07 09:36 AM by EV_Ares

NOTE: From Austrailian News

.....Sarkozy takes 'well-earned' holiday............................

From correspondents in Paris

FRANCE'S president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy has defended his decision to take a three-day post-election holiday on a luxury yacht, which was condemned by left-wing opposition as an ill-judged trip.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21703927-5005961,00.html

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The other headline is the one I posted:

France's Sarkozy sails into storm over luxury holiday

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KoKo

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Wed May-09-07 10:36 AM
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6. Interesting....the Turkish headline so different from the Aussie.

Wonder why.

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EV_Ares

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Wed May-09-07 10:39 AM
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7. Yeah and of course they had to note it was left-wing opposition to

the trip.

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Wed May-09-07 10:47 AM
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8. Douceur de la vie n/t

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