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...most passionately fought French Presidential election in recent memory wasn't even close: Conservative standard-bearer Nicolas Sarkozy handily beat Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal 53.2% to 46.8% to succeed Jacques Chirac in the Elysée. The win also gives Sarkozy's ruling Union for a Popular Majority party (UMP) a considerable boost ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled for June 10 and 17, where victory would give the right the power necessary to push through the vast modernization and liberalization program promised by Sarkozy...
...citizens reflected in the near-record 85% turnout. "Ségolène has changed the way a lot of us look at politics, and convinced us we can all make a difference," explained Royal voter Teddy Benam, 22, as 5,000 mostly young people danced in front of Socialist Party headquarters after Royal conceded defeat. "Sarkozy won tonight, but we'll be there for the rematch of legislative elections in June. If the left win those, Sarko's victory tonight will be a hollow...
This Sunday, another large turnout is expected for the run-off election as the French choose between the two remaining candidates—Nicolas Sarkozy of the right-of-center Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party and the Socialist Party’s Ségolène Royal. Although we welcome the overwhelming signs of democratic strength in France, only one vote will move the country toward far-reaching reforms that La République requires—a vote for Nicolas Sarkozy...
Nicolas Sarkozy came to Wednesday night's key presidential campaign debate with Socialist Ségolène Royal with a reputation for aggression: The former Interior Minister is a law-and-order guy who makes a point of speaking hard truths about immigration, crime and the value of work. But it was Royal, behind by four points in the polls and keen to prove her mettle as the first woman candidate ever to reach the second round, who relentlessly hounded her opponent - perhaps to a fault. More than once Sarkozy looked like a man whose tie was too tight...
...over the issue that tops voter concerns: France's sluggish economy and chronic unemployment. For Sarkozy, there's no mystery to the malaise: "It's because we work less than others do." Though he doesn't advocate a full reversal of the 35-hour working week introduced by a Socialist government in 1998, he wants to free both employers and employees from paying payroll tax and insurance charges on overtime hours. Royal's response: "I prefer to give work to those who don't have any," especially through a government-funded program to give six-month "springboard" jobs to young...