| Author (Person) | Carnegy, Hugh |
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| Series Title | Financial Times |
| Series Details | 7.3.12 |
| Publication Date | 07/03/2012 |
| Content Type | News |
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s re-election campaign became embroiled in a dispute over the ritual Muslim and Jewish slaughter of meat in march 2012 after he sought to outflank Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front, on the issue. As part of a marked tilt to the right in a bid to woo voters away from Ms Le Pen and bolster his weak opinion poll showing, Mr Sarkozy and two of his most senior ministers angered Muslim and Jewish leaders by raising questions over the production of halal and kosher meat. Separately, Nicolas Sarkozy said in a tv debate on the 6 March 2012 that there were too many foreigners in France and the system for integrating them was 'working more and more badly'. He defended his plan to almost halve the number of new arrivals if re-elected President in April 2012. France’s opposition Socialists criticised President Sarkozy’s plan to halve immigration as 'irresponsible, impossible and bad politics'. |
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