France: Is Sarkozy back?

As an incumbent, French president Sarkozy lost against François Hollande who, by most accounts, was a much worse candidate. Today, the latter is quickly becoming the worst president France ever had since the end of World War II.

Now, as he sees a vacuum because of Hollande lackluster performance and also because his own party is imploding, Sarkozy would like to return and first begin his re-entry into the political scene by getting elected head of UMP, his party.

Yesterday, I saw him made a case for it on French television. “Sarko”, as the French call him, launched into a piece of demagoguery that was grotesque and convinced me that he should now stay out of politics. He has no specific plan to lead his country and he's just acting like a consummate politician but a very poor salesman.

Further, the man has been involved into many scandals that he has managed to swipe under the rug and that might still bite him in the rear end, sooner than later. The problems that hail France are complex and can only be resolved by the French themselves, if and when they accept to cut deep into their own public service expenses to partly repair their situation, among other difficult actions that must be taken.

I still believe that France needs a moderate, center-right and don't hope anything from its brand of socialism. I further think that among the UMP party, there are some good leaders like Bruno Le Maire or François Fillion that would do a much better job than Sarko to clean up the party's act and redefine its platform and enlarge it towards the center.

If the French people allow Sarkozy back, they'll pave the way to an extreme right party victory and put Marine Le Pen into power. Just my two-cent.