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The first-round results of the French presidential election have, as expected, set up a runoff between Nicolas Sarkozy of the Right and Segolene Royal of the Left.(Brief article)
The first-round results of the French presidential election have, as expected, set up a runoff between Nicolas Sarkozy of the Right and Segolene Royal of the Left. Sarkozy would give France more economic freedom and a more Atlanticist foreign policy. Royal advocates a kinder, gentler version of reform that is really a coded defense of the French "social model." Economic reform alone is not, however, enough to win electoral victories for conservative parties. It has to be coupled with other issues that concern those voters who may not gain quickly from free-market policies and may even initially lose from them. In France today these ...
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