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EU's Barroso says he has Sarkozy's support to stay
AFP - Saturday, April 25
PARIS (AFP) - - European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said Friday he has the support of French President Nicolas Sarkozy to stay in his post, as he took a swipe at France's left-wing opposition.
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The 53-year-old Portuguese conservative's mandate expires in October, but he is expected to seek a second five-year term despite the European Union's struggle to reform and criticism of his response to the financial crisis.
In an interview published Friday in the Portuguese weekly Sol, Barroso said he had not definitely decided whether to run again.
"I will decide to do so if I consider that I will have the right conditions to carry out the projects I believe in," he said, adding that he was concentrating on dealing with the economic crisis.
Barroso is backed by EU heavyweights Britain and Germany, but Sarkozy has called for a decision on the presidency to be delayed until after Ireland's second referendum on the Lisbon treaty, due later this year.
The European Union has been in political limbo since French and Dutch voters rejected its first draft constitution in 2005. Last year, the blueprint's slimmed-down successor, the Lisbon Treaty, was rejected by voters in Ireland.
If Irish voters back Lisbon in the repeat referendum, decision-making would be streamlined in the 27-member bloc. But if they again reject it, further turmoil beckons, political analysts say.
France's reluctance to rush into a decision on the president's post had been interpreted in some quarters as lukewarm support for Barroso, but the incumbent told Europe 1 radio that he had no reason to doubt Sarkozy.
"President Sarkozy has said it several times publicly and privately. I have no doubts about it," he said, when asked if France backed him, adding that the attacks on him in France have come from opposition figures.
"There are French politicians, for domestic reasons, who have decided to be in opposition, and they've attacked me personally, which is truly unpleasant," he complained.
Campaigning ahead of June elections for the European Parliament, French Socialists have accused the Portuguese right-winger of being too wedded to free-market ideas to respond to the financial crisis.
But Barroso demanded to know why, in that case, other European left-wing leaders such as Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown still supported him.
He told Sol: "After the elections I will gauge if the conditions I require have been met. Unlike what is often said, these decisions are taken at the last minute."
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