Francois Hollande
Chris Bowlby profiles the French Socialist Party presidential candidate Francois Hollande.
Chris Bowlby profiles the Socialist Party candidate for the French presidential elections, Francois Hollande. He's not a man well known to people in the UK. But within a couple of months, he could be a key figure in European politics and he's promising a radical challenge to economic orthodoxy in France and in the EU.
Among his proposals is a 75% tax rate for French euro millionaires and a re-negotiation of the EU's plan to save the Euro. Francois Hollande's challenge is personal not just political. A man once known as 'Mr Pudding', who rides around Paris on a moped, he says he'll be 'president normal', after the bling of the Sarkozy era.
Producer:
Lesley McAlpine.
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- Sat 10 Mar 2012 19:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Sun 11 Mar 2012 17:40Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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