Sarkozy Elected President Of France

Paris, May 6(EIRNS)-In what represents a major change in the French post war/post de Gaulle paradigm, 53% of French voters elected Nicolas Sarkozy to the Presidency of the Republic. A record participation - more than 86% of the French electorate - didn't succeed in getting Segolene Royal elected. Royal, whose results are nonetheless honorable, in light of the machismo in French society and the fact that she was relatively unknown before she started, was defeated in great part by her own political friends who didn't support the best of her campaign - an attempt to turn the page on the 1968 anti-authoritarian paradigm and to engage in dialogue with the people directly around essential economic and social issues. Royal's defeat was also her own doing, for not daring to go in the direction of restoring the FDR/de Gaulle paradigm that LaRouche associate Jacques Cheminade fought for in his own candidacy.

Sarkozy's ample victory indicates also a turn for the worst in the French population, away from the FDR/de Gaulle post-war social model of society in which each individual cares for the welfare of all others, in particular the smallest of them, and in favor of a neo-conservative model of a society where all believe their interest lies in engaging in a Nietzchean/Darwinian struggle of the fittest. Sarkozy was elected with the votes of the extreme right and also, in part, of those of the more right wing elements of the UDF party of François Bayrou.