The results have been lacking and his campaign talk about affirmative action has disappeared but I still give him some credit for hiring a wide variety of people for his cabinet. After the same old, same old forever he has introduced many cabinet members who never would have been chosen in the old model. It's unfortunate that some of the early choices who represented diversity have been pushed out or aside. Maybe too much change stressed him out. The Guardian:
He's a TV personality with a trademark booming voice, a writer, film-maker and gay activist who is not only an expert on world monarchy but part of the closest thing the French republic has to a royal family: the Mitterrand clan.
Frédéric Mitterrand, the nephew of the late socialist president François Mitterrand, has been appointed France's culture minister in a highly symbolic move by Nicolas Sarkozy.
The unashamedly rightwing French president has a deliberate strategy of poaching high-profile personalities from the left. Sarkozy's "rainbow cabinet" of all political colours, including the leftwing foreign minister Bernard Kouchner, was always intended to wrongfoot his critics and weaken the moribund French left. But Mitterrand's appointment in the mid-term government reshuffle announced tonight was seen as the ultimate prize – it is as close as Sarkozy can get to the respected former socialist president and idol of the left.
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