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cjh wrote:But maybe it's not so bad - isn't there a round of parliamentary elections to follow? Might that dampen his influence somewhat?

crevecoeur wrote:i'm so depressed this guy is our president now !
now i think i feel something close to what american people felt when
W.Bush was elected...and that's not what i can call a good mood

cjh wrote:isn't there a round of parliamentary elections to follow?

Sly Bug wrote:To the new President....
... we're ready:

Minotaur029 wrote:...at least when we get a new president, Franco-American relations will be improved...Sarkozy is apparently a big fan of America...go figure...

crevecoeur wrote:the problem is that, to me, he's in love with the wrong side of America.

WMR 5-7-07 wrote:Nicolas Sarkozy will govern France with the help of two Silvio Berlusconi- and Rupert Murdoch-like billionaire neo-con French media moguls, Martin Bouygues and Arnaud Lagardere.

Bouygues owns the TF1 television channel, which can be expected to act as Sarkozy's own version of the U.S. Republican Party's Fox News Channel. Lagardere's media group owns the Europe 1 radio network, Paris Match, several French regional newspapers, and is a major stakeholder in the French television network Canal+.

Sarkozy is known to censor any news reports that are unfavorable to him and pressure publishers and editors to fire wayward journalists. With much of the French media in his pocket, expect the Franco-Hungarian Sarkozy to institute a new era of Janos Kadarist-style censorship in his nation.