He is the Dracule of France.
He will impale Chirac and Villepin to illustrate to the jihadis what is instore for them.
He is the Dracule of France.
He will impale Chirac and Villepin to illustrate to the jihadis what is instore for them.
The man who would be president
By Caroline Wyatt
BBC Paris correspondent
He was once the protege of Jacques Chirac but now he is the French president's most feared opponent. The Finance Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy - or Sarko as he is known in France - says the president should stand down at the next election and make way for a younger man: himself.
Turn on the television in France and there he is - a short, slim, Napoleonic figure, grinning wolfishly, as he outlines his newest proposals for solving the nation's problems.
Listen to the radio and you can hear him speak persuasively in the plain, everyday language of ordinary people, rather than the grander French of a Jacques Chirac or Dominique de Villepin.
Open your newspaper and there's Sarko in a blur of action - a hyperactive man in a hurry, visiting flood sites, forest fires, police stations, anywhere and everywhere to get his message across.
One political rival sighed wistfully that it would be lovely to have a Sarko-free day. But for the past year, at least, that has not happened.
Outsider
Mr Sarkozy is often seen as something new in French politics.
The son of a Hungarian immigrant, he never went to that finishing school of the French elite, the Ecole Nationale d'Administration...
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SAME PARTY, NEW MAN. WHY WOULD HE BE ANY DIFFERENT?