French Election: The Shadow of the Dark Years
Chris Millington says we shouldn’t be surprised by the Front national’s show of strength in the recent French elections.
On May 6th, 2012 socialist candidate François Hollande defeated incumbent conservative president Nicolas Sarkozy in the second round run-off of the French presidential election. Hollande is the first socialist to be elected president since François Mitterrand won a second term in 1988.
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