Sarkozy Wins - A New Direction for France
Sun, May 6, 2007 at 12:41:36 pm PDT
The victory of Nicolas Sarkozy is major news. France now has a tough, unashamedly pro-American president with a clear understanding of the threat from radical Islam. It’s a real sea change in European politics.
This excellent interview with Sarkozy at the Jerusalem Post gives a sense of how huge this news really is: Out with the old, in with the ‘Jew’? Sarkozy talks to the ‘Post’. (Hat tip: zombie.)
And don’t miss the coverage of the election at No Pasarán, where we learn that the “youths” got a head start on the festivities last night and torched 34 cars in the Paris area.
UPDATE at 5/6/07 12:49:19 pm:
Naturally, at the web’s premier “progressive” site, the Kids are despondent: Daily Kos: Sarkozy wins.
Sarkozy plans to pursue close ties with Bush and the U.S. and a neoliberal economic program that will hurt the most vulnerable in French society.
It’s a disappointing development for our French friends and for the whole world. As many mistakes as Segolene made, I believe that she would have made a remarkable president. Sarkozy is poised to institute Le Pen-esque policies cracking down on those he has previously referred to as “rabble” and promised to clean out “with a fire hose”—anybody who doesn’t look and act French. If anything, this election proves that Americans don’t have a monopoly on reactionary politicians who get elected by using fear, division, and the politics of exclusion. Here’s hoping for a better result in the upcoming French parliamentary elections.
