Sauve qui peut

What do you do when voters send a vote of no confidence in your country’s distant political elite? When this happened recently in Germany, Gerhard Schroeder called an early election. But things are different in France. Jacques Chirac has responded to defeat in the European referendum by foisting an unelected enarque – Dominique de Villepin – on the nation as prime minister. This perverse decision isn’t intended to solve the country’s problems. It’s all about patching up Chirac’s tattered career...