[Theobald]

Why did Le Pen lose 2 million votes ?

Sarkozy's electoral project :

Originally Posted by Nicolas Sarkozy

15 points :
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12 : Security

For 25 years we have spent billions and billions euros in ghettos, but their situation did not improve in any way.
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We shall first restore the Republican law in these districts, and stop the gangs' law. Various traffics, Omerta, fear, religious extremism shall disappear there.
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We shall then control immigration.
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We shall finally restore work. I will not let any young people without an activity.

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13 : Immigration

For years we were not allowed to talk about immigration in our country. Those who did not accept an unrestricted immigration were immediately "extremist" and "racist". But immigration problems are rather part of our future than part of our past. We need a controlled immigration.
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I will ask people who want to live in France to learn French first and to respect our culture and our values.
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Finally I want to create a Minister of Immigration and National Identity.

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15 : Proud to be French

It's the worst of our renouncements that we ceased being proud to be French. Our pride is the identity of our Nation. Our national ideal, shared with a common ambition and a common faith, is : being a great country, united by our common values (...) If I win these elections, I will not cease affirming our pride to be French.
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Our pride is our language and our culture, immense. I will defend the French language, a great thing for the world, and the influence of our culture in the world.

Various Sarkozy's comments :

Originally Posted by Nicolas Sarkozy

"One is born a pedophile, and it is actually a problem that we do not know how to cure this disease."

"We shall clean this area out with a Karcher."

"We shall get rid of the racaille (scum)."

Sarkozy's speech today (I was astonished) :

Originally Posted by Nicolas Sarkozy

My dear compatriots, I have one single wish : I want to gather the French Nation around a new French dream.
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I want to speak to those whom nobody talked with anymore, I want to speak to these French who give a lot but who never receive anything.
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I want to tell the French who are afraid, afraid of the future, who feel fragile, vulnerable, I want to tell them that I want to protect them from violence, deliquency, immigration, delocalizations, exclusion.
To people life has broken, to the victims of life, to those who are sick, to handiccaped people, to those who have already suffered too much, I want to give them a hope, I want to give everyone a hope, I want to tell them that the French Nation is a family.

He speaks like Le Pen, behaves like Le Pen, steals ideas from Le Pen. But is more popular, mediatized, powerful than Le Pen. That's about it.