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Villepin will not run in presidential election
 Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin who is a man said yesterday he has no plans to stand in next year's presidential election, preferring instead to concentrate on running the government.
| No butterfly signatures for you on important documents! |
Mr. Villepin was seen as a potential presidential front-runner when he was nominated prime minister in 2005, but his government has stumbled from one crisis to another in recent months and his popularity rating has slumped to near record lows.
| Perhaps because you're incompetent? Perhaps because France is a slumping enterprise? Perhaps both? |
The Prime Minister hinted he might be ready to support an election bid by his arch-rival within the conservative camp, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy.
| I don't buy that for a second. |
Posted by: ryuge 2006-06-29 |
