POL 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Gaullist Party, Nicolas Sarkozy, Jacques Chirac
27 Nov 2016
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He tried using policies inspired by the left but they are not having any success: france"s democratic system is very different from both the u. s. and the uk. France is over 90 percent white, but they have a substantial amount of minority africans, middle easterns, 88 percent of the people are catholic, and there are small minorities of. President hollande was named seventh president of the fifth republic, winning over the unpopular nicolas. Sarkozy was flashy and brash, and he was not as professional and elite seeming as the other people. He took blame for france"s poor economic performance in the great recession. He and merkel were known to support austerity, which made economic practices worse, especially in response to the sovereign debt. The book refers to the fifth republic of france being known as france 2. 0, because it was the first time the french regime was effective as well as legitimate.
