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France Goes Pro-Carla
Her husband's ratings remain stubbornly low, but France's "first lady" Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is enjoying sky-high approval ratings from the French public. A recent poll gave her a 68 percent favourable rating; husband Nicolas could only manage 35.
Seems that the "Carla Strategy" EURSOC discussed in January is paying off. Then, while the rest of the media moaned about the model-turned-singer unsuitability for the Elysée, we bet that she'd make a fabulous first lady. A visit to London under her belt, which gave the British press something akin to Diana Fever, helped her ease into the role they expect of the President's consort.
The Independent and Times report that even the release of a new CD next month doesn't seem to have harmed France's opinion of Carla. Over 60 percent believe she should consider with her career as a singer.
That said, she has been at pains to point out that the new record, Comme si de dien n'était, was written before her marriage. Probably just as well: She sings of a lover "like a drug", "Deadlier than Afghan heroin, more dangerous than Colombian cocaine". Elsewhere, she sings of her "thirty lovers."
Le Figaro, broadly pro-Sarko, has given the star's new CD a rave review; Carla herself is more sanguine about the reception she'll receive from her traditional fans in the left-wing press: "Criticism, which is useful, risks being blurred, for good or for bad, by the fact that I am the President's wife," she told one newspaper.
