Sounds great but Sarko wants to be President too much to put that in jeopardy. We shouldn't expect too much reform if he takes over.
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s interior minister, on Wednesday sought to distance himself from his country’s discredited political establishment by calling for constitutional reform as the crisis over labour reforms intensified.
Dominique de Villepin, prime minister and Mr Sarkozy’s main rival for next year’s presidential elections, will on Thursday try to salvage his premiership by launching policies on jobs and education. But the prime minister’s problems mounted after students and trade unions set a deadline of April 15 for repeal of the contentious youth labour law.
Mr Sarkozy, leader of the ruling centre-right UMP party, said constitutional reform would address the “crisis of political representation” which, he claimed, had opened a gap between voters and politicians, fuelling violent protests.
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