Monday, May 07, 2007

Frogs elect right-winger as Prez

Sarkozy vows to mend relations with America

By Agence France-Presse


Filed 5.7.07

Right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy's clear presidential election win paved the way Monday for radical reforms to kickstart France's sluggish economy, tackle simmering social discontent and chart a new foreign policy course.

"The French people have chosen to break with the ideas, the habits and the actions of the past," Sarkozy said in a victory speech following his emphatic triumph over Socialist Segolene Royal.

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