France’s Sarkozy Launches Campaign to Regain Presidency

‘Burkinis must be banned throughout France, ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday at his first campaign rally for the 2017 presidential election.
Hundreds of supporters waving French flags chanted his name and applauded as Sarkozy, who led France from 2007 to 2012 before losing an election to Socialist Francois Hollande, promised to protect the French people.
“I will be the president that re-establishes the authority of the state,” Sarkozy told supporters packing a sports hall in Chateaurenard, a Provence town where Sarkozy’s Les Republicains just beat the far-right National Front in regional elections last year.’
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