De Villepin Returns
Anti-American politician Dominique de Villepin (who is a man) has been appointed by head weasel Jacques Chirac as the new Prime Minister of France: De Villepin appointed French PM.
Dominique de Villepin has been named as France’s new prime minister, following the country’s rejection of the EU constitution in Sunday’s referendum. The former interior minister replaces Jean-Pierre Raffarin, who tendered his resignation following the vote. …
Mr de Villepin is best known abroad for expressing France’s implacable opposition to the war in Iraq at the United Nations, and is likely to go down well with European allies.
But the BBC’s Caroline Wyatt in Paris says that as a career diplomat never elected to public office, he of all candidates most typifies the French elite so roundly rejected by the French people on Sunday.