Sarkozy Reshuffles Cabinet

Tuesday 18 March 2008
French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a minor cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday with six new junior cabinet ministers, including Anne-Marie Idrac.
LE PETIT BORNAND, France, March 18 (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a minor cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday but vowed to pursue reform plans after his centre-right UMP party suffered big losses in local elections at the weekend.
"What is sure is that I will need to take a certain number of initiatives to continue the changes that are needed for our country," he said at the sidelines of a commemoration for France's World War Two resistance movement.
"I was elected to conduct these policies and that's what I am going to do," he said.
The comments, shortly before the appointment of six new junior ministers including new secretaries of state for foreign trade and employment, repeated the government line that there would be no change of course after the election.
An opinion poll by the BVA polling institute showed 63 percent of those questioned judged the government's economic policies bad or very bad, against 58 percent a month ago.

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