Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who gained international renown as France’s spokesman against the war in Iraq, has shaken up the presidential campaign by announcing he’ll run as an independent.
The announcement Sunday night on French television is likely to complicate life for both the Socialist candidate, Francois Hollande, and President Nicolas Sarkozy, who runs the UMP party that Villepin served under.
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