Gaddafi offered Sarkozy $66 million to finance his 2007 campaign: report

[lai_choi_san]

The hard-charging investigative journalism website Mediapart says a letter shows that Gaddafi offered a boat-load of money to Sarkozy's first presidential campaign five years ago.

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[lai_choi_san]

I think it's true if you're talking of the people who voted for Sarkozy. Regarding the FN electorate and given what Marine Le Pen said about the war in Libya (she was against it and in her point of view, the real aim was not to bring democracy but to kill Gaddafi), it's much more complicated.

[cookie1223]

The FN electorate do not care about Libya.

[lai_choi_san]

No but a big part of them care about France's sovereignty and what does a foreign dictator funding the presidential campaign tell them ?...

[lai_choi_san]

Thank you, panookah. Something tells me that the the use of $66 million were not limited to the French presidential campaign. Perhaps the deal was related to the Bulgarian nurses affair.

[lai_choi_san]

Sorry, it's such an amusing coincidence that I had to share it with you.

[ladypolitik]

Hm, well. I reckon it's news in the sense that there's now purported proof of questionable dealings that most people figure are going on between notable governments (not just France!) and their questionable allies. But I think most people would already have the sense that -- in this case, ever since the Libyan disarmament commitment back in '03, and the subsequent mad dash among governments (that USED to vilify Gaddafi), tripping over themselves to be friends with Libya -- this otherwise isnt shocking information.

"Western Governments Selectively Cozy Up To Widely Vilified non-Western Regimes Because of Economic/Military/Political/Geopolitical Self-Interest, News @ 11", basically.

Good to know in any case, I guess.

[hinoema]

Oddly enough, my first thought was "Where is Putin in all this?"

[ladypolitik]

Mmmmm-hmmm.

[the_gabih]

I'd like to be surprised by this. But I'm not.

[lai_choi_san]

http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/9602994.html?thread=586563762#t586563762

[cookie1223]

I love how French medias downplay this story, and let's be reel Sarkozy's (racist) electors will not care about this story.

[lai_choi_san]

I love how French medias downplay this story
Yes, it's rather telling.

let's be reel Sarkozy's (racist) electors will not care about this story.
Sadly, you're right. They are either rich assholes or they lack of two neurons to rub together.