Hollande used Gulf springboard to emerge as master salesman
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Issue 999
- 05 Sep 2015
| 3 minute read
The Gulf monarchies may not seem the natural hunting ground for a French Parti Socialiste (PS) politician looking to burnish his electoral credentials, but François Hollande has started to feel at home with Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) leaders – and not just the francophone elite in Qatar (where Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani speaks excellent, Belgian-accented French, and his influential sister Sheikha Al-Mayassa is fluent). Hollande – whose opinion poll ratings in France have blossomed since the Charlie Hebdo attack in January
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