Michèle Alliot-Marie has endured to the end. The Foreign Minister of the French Republic did not understand, or would not understand, why the President called for his head after successive blunders that starred a few weeks ago, in relation to the crisis in Tunisia. In the end, to the inevitability of retirement, the veteran politician of the UMP has chosen to seek the settlement of its own accord to avoid the ignominy of dismissal traumatic.
His replacement will be Alain Juppe, until now Minister of Defense. Nicolas Sarkozy will address the nation via public television channel France 2, to explain his umpteenth reshuffle. "We need a strong foreign policy that helps us also to manage our internal problems with immigration," have to say before the cameras.
Not likely, the discourse is no longer true. The reality is that the tenant did not want to Elisha least this new crisis cabinet, which is the tenth since he became president and the fourth in the last twelve months. But his foreign minister left him no choice, having messed up, not once but three times in his management of the Tunisian jasmine revolution.
First mistake: to offer the Ben Ali government of dictator savoir faire of the French police to quell the protests of citizens. Second sin: make two voyages in the private jet Aziz Miled, a Tunisian businessman close to the family clan of the satraps Ben Ali and Leila Trabelsi, during her last Christmas holidays in Tunisia (further mockery, went with her mate, The minister also Patrick Ollier).
Third blunder: to defend against the media claiming that "during the holidays, ceased to be minister." And, to top it off, out of program, some recent leaks indicate that his parents bought shares in a company of that Aziz Miled during their free Christmas Tunisian total. What a dead end for one of the most powerful ladies of the French right.
At age 64, this position in front of the Quai d'Orsay seemed the end of a brilliant career, after nine consecutive years as minister to the orders of various government leaders and chairmen of the gala right: Minister of Defense from 2004 to 2007 (the first woman in that position), the Interior until 2007, Justice Affairs until 2010 and from 14 November.
But nobody seems to have you and appreciate this faithful follower of Chirac, who spent technocratic ways phlegmatic, effective and tad distant. The left accuses it to have captured the symptoms of the successive revolutions in the countries of North Africa, while conservatives do not forgive him, with his repeated blunders, has made it evident to an executive, already put in question, just fifteen months of the presidential election.
It is said that on 16 February, the council of ministers, the president himself handed a written statement of his own hand to encourage him: "Your friends will support you." Almost simultaneously, a BVA poll for the LCI news channel showed that 52% of people wanted to Madame Marie resign.
In the middle of election campaign, Sarkozy had no choice but to emulate the great masters of chess and make a Queen's Gambit. The position of Alain Juppe would be covered by Longuet, while Guéant go to the Interior and the current head of that department, Brice Hortefeux, would become political adviser to Elisha. 
His replacement will be Alain Juppe, until now Minister of Defense. Nicolas Sarkozy will address the nation via public television channel France 2, to explain his umpteenth reshuffle. "We need a strong foreign policy that helps us also to manage our internal problems with immigration," have to say before the cameras.
Not likely, the discourse is no longer true. The reality is that the tenant did not want to Elisha least this new crisis cabinet, which is the tenth since he became president and the fourth in the last twelve months. But his foreign minister left him no choice, having messed up, not once but three times in his management of the Tunisian jasmine revolution.
First mistake: to offer the Ben Ali government of dictator savoir faire of the French police to quell the protests of citizens. Second sin: make two voyages in the private jet Aziz Miled, a Tunisian businessman close to the family clan of the satraps Ben Ali and Leila Trabelsi, during her last Christmas holidays in Tunisia (further mockery, went with her mate, The minister also Patrick Ollier).
Third blunder: to defend against the media claiming that "during the holidays, ceased to be minister." And, to top it off, out of program, some recent leaks indicate that his parents bought shares in a company of that Aziz Miled during their free Christmas Tunisian total. What a dead end for one of the most powerful ladies of the French right.
At age 64, this position in front of the Quai d'Orsay seemed the end of a brilliant career, after nine consecutive years as minister to the orders of various government leaders and chairmen of the gala right: Minister of Defense from 2004 to 2007 (the first woman in that position), the Interior until 2007, Justice Affairs until 2010 and from 14 November.
But nobody seems to have you and appreciate this faithful follower of Chirac, who spent technocratic ways phlegmatic, effective and tad distant. The left accuses it to have captured the symptoms of the successive revolutions in the countries of North Africa, while conservatives do not forgive him, with his repeated blunders, has made it evident to an executive, already put in question, just fifteen months of the presidential election.
It is said that on 16 February, the council of ministers, the president himself handed a written statement of his own hand to encourage him: "Your friends will support you." Almost simultaneously, a BVA poll for the LCI news channel showed that 52% of people wanted to Madame Marie resign.
In the middle of election campaign, Sarkozy had no choice but to emulate the great masters of chess and make a Queen's Gambit. The position of Alain Juppe would be covered by Longuet, while Guéant go to the Interior and the current head of that department, Brice Hortefeux, would become political adviser to Elisha.
- "Michele Alliot-Marie Resigns, Alain Juppe Considered" and related posts (27/02/2011)
- Analysis: Sarkozy tasks Juppe with repairing French image (28/02/2011)
- Analysis: Sarkozy tasks Juppe with repairing French image - Reuters (28/02/2011)
- French Foreign Minister Alliot-Marie quits over Tunisia - BBC News (27/02/2011)
- French foreign minister resigns - Xinhua (28/02/2011)
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