Speech by Nicolas Sarkozy a week before the first round of the presidential election, delivered in Paris, April 15, 2012


Dear friends,
Thank you for answering the call of France strong!
Thank you for coming so many, so mobilized in the heart of Paris, this place belongs
to all the French!
The people of Paris is there. The people of France is here! A la Concorde, with Nicolas
Sarkozy!
You have come from all over France. By all means. And nothing could stop you.
Neither the difficulties of transportation, nor weather, nor sarcasm observers.
Nothing stops the France strong! The dynamic is launched and nothing can break it.
Thank you for your enthusiasm! Thank you for your generosity!
Thank you for your unwavering support for Nicolas Sarkozy.
Thank you for your love of France!
This love of France, we bear in our hearts and in our heads! We carry
in our dreams and in our lives!
We do everything for love of France and in this campaign, it is our only
compass!
The love of France, it is the only guide Nicolas Sarkozy.
If we had listened to the chilly, we would have nothing.
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We could not even campaigned.
Besides, the other side of the Seine at Saint-Germain-des-Prés, we were told that everything was
play.
We were asked to look at the left win, saying nothing. Before, it was Dominique
Strauss-Kahn. Now it's Francois Hollande.
They even asked us to applaud, in the primaries. This small settlement
accounts which gave the opportunity in September to Francois Hollande to do so many
TV debates between socialists refuse to do now for the real election
Presidential.
We were told that this morning, this place would be empty! That the Concorde would be a desert. And
we have tens of thousands!
We are in France on. The people of France on!
The courageous people of France. Worker. Engaged. With Nicolas Sarkozy! For the
France!
On December 3, 1805, speaking to his soldiers after the victory Napoleon
said, "You simply say," I was at Austerlitz "for an answer:" This is a brave! "
You who are the Concorde, you who are in the field every day in all our cities,
in all our villages, ignoring the polls and media sneers, I can
saying: "You are brave! ". In the noblest sense. In the strongest sense!
Over the past 5 years, you have all suffered in silence the attacks, critics,
cartoons ... When we banged Nicolas Sarkozy, in truth, it is you that was. Your
values, your beliefs, your ambition for France.
In fact, part of the small Parisian world has never accepted the victory of Sarkozy in
2007. Then they blamed you, this victory.
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They reproached you to be attached to the homeland at this tricolor flag that you wear with
pride. Was accused you love heritage, culture, history of your country. His
values, its grandeur and its aspiration to universality.
Was accused you of wanting to defend the Republic deal with extremists. Secularism face
the communitarians.
Was accused you require security and firmness in dealing with thugs.
It was the trial you promote the work and merit. To deny that the assistantship
always stifles human dignity.
We attacked you because you believe in the family. Because you defend
responsibility of parents. Because you consider that the authority and the transmission
not bad words.
Was accused you of wanting a stronger social model. Of course, but generously funded
in duration and intractable with fraudsters. A social model where there are no rights
no homework! Where we finally stops to pay the bill to future generations.
These values, my dear friends, you have not abandoned them. These are those that we
gather today around Nicolas Sarkozy.
They are the heart of our project for France. They are central to the action of Nicolas
Sarkozy. These are the strong values ​​of France!
As Nicolas Sarkozy, you've never sold! You never fell! The
pressures were many outrageous attacks. But Nicolas Sarkozy with you
have held. Because it was the interest of France!
And next Sunday, you are going to talk about the polls. Once again, you will
surprise the world! You will show that polls, editorials, predictions
are perhaps a candidate but not a President.
Next Sunday is the return of the silent majority!
It's the return of the real against the fantasies of the Left.
It is you, the people of France alone will decide.
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I commend our parliamentary majority. My friends and comrades in arms, deputies
and senators. The representatives of the French people did an outstanding job all
Throughout this five-year period. With all the ministers. They were in the first row facing a left
hate.
While in the crisis, we need a united and together countries, has left
Evidence of the worst bigotry. She said no to everything:
  Not at RSA and raising the minimum age!
  No to minimum sentences and anti-terrorist laws!
  Not to reducing public expenditure and the golden rule!
  She even said no to the burqa ban in public places!
The left has said no to everything because it remained a prisoner of the past! All that the French
have strongly rejected in 2002, Francois Hollande tightens us in 2012:
· The explosion of government spending and tax bludgeoning,
· Voting rights of foreigners and the regularization of undocumented migrants,
· Young people jobs that are a trap for our youth,
· The culture of excuses deal with offenders.
Nothing is spared us!
Francois Hollande climbs daily irresponsibility peaks - seen in his
program. Shown in its balance sheet.
In Correze where he leads the most indebted department of France: he keeps digging
debt by multiplying hiring!
The Socialist Party, which he led for more than 10 years, he left proliferate real
mafia systems. When you think they dare to give us moral lessons ...
But in this election, Francois Hollande is not alone. This is the first climber!
Behind him, we have Eva Joly and Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
With the Greens, François Hollande is willing to sell off all our strengths:
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· Our diplomatic independence with the abandonment of our seat on the Security Council
UN,
· Our strategic independence, with severe cuts to our armed only
fiscal adjustment variable for the Socialists,
· Our food independence with the setting permanent cause of our farmers,
which are the pride of France,
· Our energy independence with the abandonment of nuclear power.
What good promise that will block small for 3 months the price of gasoline at the pump,
if detonated the energy bills of French for entire decades!
Eva Joly, they even had this crazy idea to remove the military parade of 14
July!
On this square every year our soldiers show their obedience to the Head of State.
On this square every year the gathered Nation salute their commitment to serving
France, risking their lives.
And now that Eva Joly would delete this great moment of national communion
organizing instead a giant picnic with groups of undocumented migrants and activists
altermondialists.
As for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who, in the 21st century, in France, floated flags
Soviet in its meetings and promises the return of nationalization, now he becomes the
Reference including a left caviar, which is also disconnected Francois Hollande
the reality of the world!
You understand why François Hollande, to hide this cumbersome coalition
Nicolas Sarkozy prefers to attack remaining elusive as an eel!
For him, this election is a world championship of "yes or no". For us it is
the future of France is at stake.
Now, my dear friends, France is at the crossroads and it is the people of France who
the decision was in his hands.
For there is only one valid question in this election.
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And this is why it is historic. This question is crucial. I will pose to you,
as we must ask each French by 6 May:
What is the only candidate who will allow France to keep its independence and
control of their destiny?
This is certainly not the Holland-Joly Mélenchon coalition of which I have just described
hazards.
They are not extremist candidates. As usual, they win
left.
My dear friends, the only one that will allow France to maintain control of its destiny in
this new world being born, Nicolas Sarkozy!
7 days ! We have seven days to convince.
7 days to fan deceptions of the left.
7 days to show as the people of France is free and indomitable.
7 days to prove that truth and courage always eventually triumph.
Do not let go! With Nicolas Sarkozy, we count on you!
Thank you for your commitment!
Long live the Republic ! Long live France !
