Francois Hollande, the candidate of the opposition Socialist Party, and front-runner in most public opinion polls, kicked off his official campaign with a lengthy speech (1 hour, 15 minutes) to a large crowd (15,000 people); the speech is described here with a short video news report here.
Art Goldhammer has a more thorough assessment -- and finds it to have been a rather "lackluster and predictable." (Goldhammer, who has a specialists' knowledge of policy questions especially on economic policy, has long been critical of most leading Socialist Party candidates for a lack of clarity, especially on how to address the monetary and economic crisis in Europe.)
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