François Hollande: the decline of a ‘normal’ president
Unhappy electors forced the head of state to entrust his government to a potential rival more popular than he.
May 6, 2012: François Hollande is elected president of the French Republic with 51.64% of the vote, the only Socialist – besides François Mitterrand – to attain an office the French view as more of a monarchic than political position.
This friendly and reassuring man whose aspiration is to become a ‘normal president’ ousts the (overly) effervescent Nicolas Sarkozy. Less than two years later, March 30, 2014 marks the second round of local elections: the Socialist Party suffers a historic drubbing.
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