La Victoire de Sarkozy
Vive La Demi-Droite
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in Featured Stories | Foreign Affairs — Comments (4) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
As Erick has noted below, France has a new President.
Read on . . .
Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy has won the hotly-contested French presidential election, according to early results.
With three quarters of votes counted, Mr Sarkozy has 53%, compared with 47% for socialist Segolene Royal, while turnout is put at 85%.
Mr Sarkozy, 52, the son of a Hungarian immigrant, takes over from the 74-year-old Jacques Chirac.
Riot police are reported to have fired tear gas at demonstrators protesting in central Paris at Mr Sarkozy's victory.
According to the French news agency AFP, a few hundred stone-throwing rioters charged the police in the Place de la Bastille, where 5,000 supporters of Segolene Royal had earlier gathered to hear the results.
The riots really come as no surprise, do they? After all, as France 24 made clear during its coverage of the election returns, the Socialist Party is all but dead in the water, even if the concept of Socialism still has some life left in it. It should therefore shock precisely no one that riots should accompany a Sarkozy victory. Denial and anger are two of the stages, after all.
In any event, it is worth noting anew that Sarkozy does not represent the clear and complete break with statism that many people--including me--would want him to represent. But he is a dramatic improvement who could augur further improvements in the future. His election, therefore, deserves to be celebrated as a triumph for France.
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This Sarkozy isn't so anti-American. In fact, he's already called President Bush and offered to surrender.
Ba dum bump.
Drink Good Coffee. You can sleep when you're dead.
Let them begin. After all, its as much a French tradition going all the way back to the original Bastille Day, as their tradition of surrenderingf as soon as the first round is fired.
By the way, that's a tradition that San Fran Nan and Harry Reid and the rest of the Democratic Party are working their tails off to abscond with and take all for themselves. Not one single stiff English upper lip in the bunch. Petain and Quisling would be proud of these Democrats, the newest crop of surrender monkeys who feel the best human society should be modeled on the Bonobos kind, instead of the Chimpanzee who protects his and his troops territory.
They said there would be riots in the streets and sure enough with Sarkozy the winner there were riots in the streets.
American leftists much be watching in envy.
Apparently Madame Royal's message got through and equally apparent the leftists aren't responsible for their actions even when they are rioting. They riot, it's Sarkozy's fault. They can't lose, except an occasional election. They're the same the world over.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
SARKOZY LE MAGNIFIQUE !!!!!!