From Wikipedia, regarding deVillepin:
“...In addition, his mutual distaste for Nicolas Sarkozy, head of the UMP (Union for a Popular Movement) majority party, is well-known
“Villepin, then Foreign Minister, with Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber.
He was appointed Foreign Minister by Chirac in the cabinet of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin at the beginning of his second term in 2002.”
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It doesn’t sound like deVellepin is going to remain in this APPOINTED position much longer.
France can't do worse than Villepin, so any change will be an improvement.