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France May Be Ready For Change
IBD Editorials ^ | 24 April 2007 | Staff

Posted on 04/24/2007 3:51:42 PM PDT by Kitten Festival

Elections: It's too soon to call the winner of France's presidential election, even with conservative candidate Nicolas Sarkozy taking a big lead in Sunday's first round of voting. But there are plenty of reasons for optimism.

France's unpredictable voters gave Sarkozy a 31% to 26% victory over his nearest challenger, socialist-lite Segolene Royal.

No matter who wins now, that verdict represents a mandate for energizing France's economy, which has been stagnant for more than a decade. French economic growth, averaging a mere 2.3% since 1997, and unemployment at near 10% for much of that time, both show how France has squandered its opportunities in recent years. It should be an economic lion, but has performed like a lamb.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; france; frenchelections; sarkozy; segolene

1 posted on 04/24/2007 3:51:44 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
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a big cut in bureaucracy, which is 45% of the French work force, and a "right" to work more than 35 hours a week

This is why France fails.

2 posted on 04/24/2007 3:59:41 PM PDT by Quick or Dead (Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms - Aristotle)
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To: Kitten Festival

Muslims...there’s the reason that this writer dare not say.


4 posted on 04/24/2007 4:20:52 PM PDT by blam
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