Sarkozy: Conservative President

Le Figaro Dept: Mr. Hollande s style lacked the glamour and personability of Mr. Sarkozy s while the conservative president began the evening by addressing the camera directly, in the style of a North American politician, Mr. Hollande stared only at his opponent, and the long evening devolved into an out-and-out argument between two men who often seemed oblivious to the TV cameras, according to Globe and Mail. Sarkozy-Hollande: A confrontation without mercy, read a headline in the conservative Le Figaro, whose editors described it as a battle between the old embodied by Mr. Hollande s rather traditional left-wing views and the new in Mr. Sarkozy s modernizing, liberalizing tendencies . Despite that, Le Figaro s political editor acknowledged that Mr. Sarkozy had failed to deflate his opponent: Hollande has managed to avoid all the pitfalls. Hollande entered the debate in the leading position, and there he still remains, Le Monde wrote, and most other publications agreed. But Mr. Hollande s physical style he sat ramrod straight, with few gestures beyond poking his pen at his interlocutor caused the famously hyperactive Mr. Sarkozy to seem skittish and explosive, and in his more animated exchanges, such as those about immigration, the president appeared to be bobbing about like a bladder on a stick. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.