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"Flanby," or "milk pudding," is what the French used to call Francois Hollande before electing him president
Mr Sarkozy has frequently contrasted his own experience, dynamism and firm character with the lack of public office of his rural political rival, nicknamed Mr Flanby after a wobbly caramel pudding with a soft-centre
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He used to be referred to as "Flanby," after a brand of wobbly caramel pudding, just one of a string of insulting nicknames for a convivial man considered always at the second rank of politics. He has been called "a living marshmallow" and "Mr. Little Jokes," and just last year, Martine Aubry, the head of the Socialist Party, described him as a couille molle, a nasty way of saying he has no guts
[Socialist party leader Martine] Aubry has presidential ambitions... Her rivals included the former leader of the party, François Hollande....
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