Hollande private life risks hijacking reform message


  • World
  • Tuesday, 14 Jan 2014

French President Francois Hollande (L) and his companion Valerie Trierweiler arrive for a state dinner at the Elysee Palace in Paris May 7, 2013, as part of Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski's two-day visit to France. REUTERS/Thibault Camus/Pool

PARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande aims to lay out plans for the French economy on Tuesday but a news conference is set to be dominated by talk of his private life after his partner went into a hospital following reports he had an affair.

His New Year's encounter with journalists in his Elysee Palace will be his first public appearance since a celebrity magazine on Friday published photos it said showed Hollande making a nocturnal visit to French film actress Julie Gayet.

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