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RedHot25 · 05-07-2007, 07:43 AM

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/0...ce-change.html

Nicolas Sarkozy, a pro-American conservative candidate, won 53.06 per cent of the votes in Sunday's runoff presidential election. He beat Socialist candidate Segolene Royal, who received 46.94 per cent of the vote.

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Sarkozy, leader of the right-of-centre Union for a Popular Movement party, pledged to improve the economy to bring about full employment, to strengthen French culture, to lengthen the 35-hour work week in France, to introduce measures to crack down on crime and to make immigration more difficult.

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Biographer Michael Darmon said the president-elect faces stiff resistance to his planned reforms, including from unions in France that may object to a lengthening of the work week.
"He's going to have to bring together and win the support of a part of French society that's afraid of him," Darmon said in translation.
Other government leaders, he noted, have tried to bring in more modest reforms with little success.

05-07-2007, 07:43 AM	#1
RedHot25 Franchise Player Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Probably stuck driving someone somewhere Exp:	New French president expected to usher in radical changes http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/0...ce-change.html Nicolas Sarkozy, a pro-American conservative candidate, won 53.06 per cent of the votes in Sunday's runoff presidential election. He beat Socialist candidate Segolene Royal, who received 46.94 per cent of the vote. .... Sarkozy, leader of the right-of-centre Union for a Popular Movement party, pledged to improve the economy to bring about full employment, to strengthen French culture, to lengthen the 35-hour work week in France, to introduce measures to crack down on crime and to make immigration more difficult. ... Biographer Michael Darmon said the president-elect faces stiff resistance to his planned reforms, including from unions in France that may object to a lengthening of the work week. "He's going to have to bring together and win the support of a part of French society that's afraid of him," Darmon said in translation. Other government leaders, he noted, have tried to bring in more modest reforms with little success.