François Hollande, who succeeded Sarkozy in 2012, reinstituted the tradition.

All this, as well as bad public relations, caused his unpopularity to grow at the end of his term, and he failed to secure re-election in 1981, the last French president to do so until Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012.

In February 2012, a general assembly of the newspaper's journalists adopted a motion accusing the paper's managing editor, Étienne Mougeotte, of having made Le Figaro into the " bulletin " of the governing party, the Union for a Popular Movement, of the government and of President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Delanoë was said to be considering challenging current president Sarkozy in the Presidential election in 2012.

He has been one of the most vocal right-wing opponents of President Nicolas Sarkozy, and on 8 September announced his candidature for President of France in 2012.

On 25 March 2010, he announced that he would form a new center-right political movement in order to offer an alternative to Sarkozy in the 2012 election.

He narrowly defeated incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, becoming president-elect of France on Sunday 6 May 2012.

In 2012 Lang was chosen as the Socialist Party candidate for the National Assembly in the second district in the Vosges Department .. A controversial figure in the Socialist Party since his collaboration with Sarkozy, Lang's constituency was abolished during the national reapportionment and he failed to be nominated in several other constituencies before finally succeeding in the Vosges.

* Nicolas Sarkozy ( President of the Republic, 2007 – 2012 )

In the first round of the 2012 presidential election, Marine Le Pen won in Hénin-Beaumont, with 35 % of the vote, ahead of both François Hollande ( 27 %) and Nicolas Sarkozy on ( 16 %).

On 10 May 2012 Juppé along with the rest of the cabinet, including Prime minister François Fillon quit following the defeat of President Nicolas Sarkozy in the presidential election.

He was elected President of France on 6 May 2012, defeating the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, and was sworn in on 15 May.

On 22 April 2012, she polled 17. 90 % ( 6, 421, 426 votes ) in the first round and finished in third position behind François Hollande and incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy.

On 22 April 2012, she polled 17. 90 % ( 6, 421, 426 votes ) in the first round and finished in third position behind François Hollande and incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy.

During a speech delivered in Paris on 1 May 2012 after the traditional Joan of Arc and Labor Day march, she has refused to back either incumbent president Sarkozy or socialist Hollande in the run-off on 6 May.

In 2007 Brice Lalonde was designated by President Sarkozy French Climate Ambassador and has been heavily invested in the multilateral climate change negotiations until the end of 2010, when he was designated by the UN Secretary-General Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development ( UNCSD ), which is to be held in Rio de Janeiro ( Brazil ) in June 2012.

On April 14, 2012, President Nicolas Sarkozy recognized France's " historical responsibility " in abandoning Harki Algerian veterans.

Her brother-in-law, Nicolas Sarkozy, is the former President of France and stepped down on 15th May 2012 after being defeated in the Presidential Elections by François Hollande.

* French presidential election, 2012: Nicolas Sarkozy, " For all that, if we had a vote on May 6th, we would give it to Mr Sarkozy — but not on his merits, so much as to keep out Mr Hollande.

In April 2012, Marc Jenner from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, ran in the Virgin London Marathon dressed in a Bagpuss costume to raise money for the charity, supported by Emily Firmin and Oliver Postgate's family.

After parliamentary elections in 2012, the MPRP, which ran in the elections as the Justice Coalition with a smaller party, formed a coalition government with the Democratic Party.

In January 2012, the magazine ran exclusive excerpts from Hastings ' book just prior to publication.

In April-May 2012, Steve Jackson Games ran a successful Kickstarter. com campaign for a new " Designer's Edition " of Ogre.

According to Dern, who ran twice as a Natural Law candidate for U. S. Senate and once for the Hartland Township Board of Trustees, the party will appear on the 2012 presidential ballot ticket In August 2012, the party nominated former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson for president.

In July 2012, The Guardian ran an article reporting that ALEC had launched a worldwide campaign against plain cigarette packaging laws.

Besides the monorail, which survives as of 2012, the fair also featured a Skyride that ran across the grounds from the Gayway to the International Mall.

By the end of the 1940 ′ s however, Rank had ran up an overdraft of £ 16 million ( the equivalent of £ 364. 5 million in 2012 ), mainly due to big budget flops such as the 1946 Caesar and Cleopatra, which was originally budgeted at £ 250, 000., but which eventually cost £ 1, 278, 000 ( the equivalent of £ 33 million ) and many of the studios famous directors being lured away by rival companies who promised greater independence.

The 2012 World Social Forum was hosted in Porto Alegre, Brazil and ran from 24-30 January.

In January 2012, Wizards of Waverly Place ended its run on the channel, becoming Disney Channel's longest-running original series with 106 episodes ( the record for the channel's longest-running series was formerly held by That's So Raven, which ran for 100 episodes ).

In 2012, Val d ' Aran launches the first edition of Dig @ ran European Festival on digital arts from June 29 to July 8.

Operated by the James Tringas family, that also ran the Tringas Theatre in Fort Walton ( which is, ironically, still in business in 2012 as a second-run venue ), the drive-in would close in the fall of 1973.

As of May 13, 2012, Shutesbury still has no means to provide access to high-speed internet to any of its inhabitants ( aside from universal-placement satellite uplinks ); The Boston Globe ran a story in 2005 describing Shutesbury and its neighboring town, Leverett, as one of " America's Broadband Black Holes ".

The most recent revival ran from December 3, 2011 to March 10, 2012 at the Old Vic Theatre, directed by Lindsay Posner and starring Jonathan Coy, Janie Dee, Robert Glenister, Jamie Glover, Celia Imrie, Karl Johnson, Aisling Loftus, Amy Nuttall and Paul Ready.

In the November 2011 general election, Nolan Higgins ran unopposed for a four-year term as mayor and fellow Democrats Michael DiBenedetto and George Schnurr both won re-election to another three years on the borough council, all with terms of office that will begin in January 2012.

Soong ran again as a candidate in the 2012 Presidential race, garnering 2. 77 % of popular support.

After a petition, Soong, for the first time as a People First Party presidential candidate, ran the 2012 presidential election together with Lin Ruey-shiung, a National Taiwan University professor in public health.

Although no Santa trains ran in 2011 as volunteer efforts were put into completing the extension to Lintley in time for the 2012 season, they will run again in December 2012 on two successive weekends, 15th, 16th, 22nd, 23rd.

In January 2012 the Daily Mail ran a story following the murder of Alisa Dmitrijeva a Latvian teenager and resident of Wisbech whose body was found on the Queen's Sandringham estate.

Pew Research Center ran a poll in January 2012 to find out how many voters were aware of the ruling on Super PACs and whether they found Super PACs had a positive or negative effect on the political campaign.

The work was set to premiere at LaGuardia in May 2012, and ran from May 3 through May 6.

In 2012 it was sold by the local Chapman family ( who ran it since 1977 ) to ' HF Holidays ', a national company.