My favourite world leader, Nicolas Sarkozy, is in the news for taking former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin to court for his alleged conspiratorial meddling in the Clearstream affair. This comes as no surprise to me, having just read Sarkozy’s brilliant exposition of his political thinking in his 2007 memoir, Testimony.
The Sarko/de Villepin case has been painted as a class struggle, a power struggle and an abuse of power by sections of the media, who fail to understand the president’s motivations. Sarko’s actions against de Villepin are wholly in line with his principles, not his emotions, as his detractors would have us believe. For him to do anything other than seek the truth about his rival’s involvement in a smear campaign from which he was ultimately vindicated would be against everything Sarkozy believes and, love him or loathe him, Sarkozy is a man of conviction (no pun intended).
Look out for my review of Testimony in a later post.
The Sarko/de Villepin case has been painted as a class struggle, a power struggle and an abuse of power by sections of the media, who fail to understand the president’s motivations. Sarko’s actions against de Villepin are wholly in line with his principles, not his emotions, as his detractors would have us believe. For him to do anything other than seek the truth about his rival’s involvement in a smear campaign from which he was ultimately vindicated would be against everything Sarkozy believes and, love him or loathe him, Sarkozy is a man of conviction (no pun intended).
Look out for my review of Testimony in a later post.
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