PARIS, France (CNN) — [1] Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy greeted news of his election Sunday to a five-year term as France’s president with a vow to serve as a leader for all people of France.
“The president of the republic must love and respect all the French,” he told cheering supporters at his campaign headquarters. “I will be the president of all the French people.
Sarkozy won with 53 percent of the vote, according to polls for France’s state-run network, France 2.
Given the state of things, over there, I wonder if this would be an improvement over the socialists, or not. Time will tell.