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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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13 minutes

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Sun 11 Mar 2012 17:40

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  • Sat 10 Mar 2012 19:00
  • Sun 11 Mar 2012 17:40

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