By Prensa Latina
Paris : The French Socialist Party stated Tuesday that the first speech delivered in 2008 by President Nicolas Sarkozy failed to respond to the main problems of the French people.
In a release following the president’s a press conference Tuesday morning, Socialist Party leader Francois Hollande noted the absence of important results for the population after eight months in power.
FSP spokesman Julien Dray particularly lamented the absence of an immediate solution to the French concern about buying power, considering the rising costs of energy, taxes and services.
Sarkozy’s stress was on the international arena and domestically, he asked for reflections on publicity in public television, and urged increasing culture and education.
He also expressed his wish to eliminate the 35-hour work week this year, and gave his position about migration, which is a quota policy.
Regarding foreign policy, Sarkozy defended the right of Arab countries to access nuclear energy with peaceful objectives and said that if doors are ever closed, Iran would have the right to brand western countries as segregationist.
The French president also gave his support to Brazil and India as future members of the expanded UN Security Council, and to Japan, Germany and an African country to also become members.