2012 Presidential Elections: France

This is the fourth in a series of posts on the numerous presidential elections this year. The first three posts were on the elections in Taiwan, Russia, and Senegal.

On May 6, François Hollande, the candidate of the Socialiste Party in France (PS - Parti Socialiste) won a run-off presidential election against incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. A series of events (the whole DSK scandal), gaffes on Sarkozy's part (making him less and less liked by the French), and economic problems (enough said), turned Hollande from an also-ran to the president of the République for the next five years.

This is good news for those who feared the growing more of the extreme-right Front National and the ways in which they thought Sarkozy was leaning that way (though in the more mainstream conservative party UMP). This is bad news for those who did like Sarkozy's more capitalist, pro-American ways.

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