the protest charges against nicholas sarkozy have been dropped. >>> now sarkozy had been accused of taking money from france's richest woman lillian bettancorp, the hair to the l'oreal fortune. >>> do you think it is likely that mr. sarkozy is going to actually want a return to politics when he was campaigning in the run up to the 2012 elections he said if he lost that france, quote, would never hear from me again. >> i mean mr. sarkozy is still a very active man. he's still quite young. and i would say even like super-active and still very interested in politics. i mean, what kind of other job he could do, i mean, of course, he can seat in the french constitutional court, where he has a seat. but it's not enough for such an active man. and at the same time, he realizes that there is little competition in the right, because in this right wing party that we have in france, which is called ump, there were some kind of sifer -- civil war between hs former are during the last three and four months and everybody is killed, now, in this civil war. and sarkozy is the only national figure well-kno

nicholas sarkozy did not even get that low.he lowest he got was 2011 when france was at the heart of the economic crisis. he is really not doing so well. how can he get out of this -- quagmire? timing is crucial. a few months to go before the elections. what are his options? we look at a couple of them. do a government reshuffle or two dissolve the parliament, which means the socialists would lose the majority. or cleanup the socialist party. >> that is an interesting perspective. anger growing against him in the region of britain. upset about plans for a new road tax. >> a lot of a first looking at this. happening.hat is you can see photographs taken where there were pilot clashes in brittany. the government trying to put out the fire. trying to find some sort of an honorable way out of this. has organizedster a meeting today to try to find a solution. tweakvernment likely to the tax a little bit. pointing out that agricultural work earners are crying about the tax, but they already get our -- all sorts of tax breaks. pointing