France: Hollande beats Sarkozy

[okiereddust]

I understand Sarkozy with his model wife etc. was quite the bon vivant himself, but this Hollande fellow makes Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton seem like models of family values.

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The Soap Operaization of Politics

By Steve Sailer on May 6, 2012 at 3:20pm
Here's something I didn't know about the Socialist Party candidate in Sunday's French election, who is favored now that Marine Le Pen has refused to endorse Sarkozy:

After ceding the nomination in 2007 to Ségolène Royal, his partner at the time, who lost badly to Mr. Sarkozy, Mr. [François] Hollande prepared to run against Mr. Strauss-Kahn, once considered a shoo-in, and then against Mr. Sarkozy. Mr. Hollande split with Ms. Royal, the mother of their four children, and says he has found happiness with a journalist, Valérie Trierweiler, now 47, a mother of three, who divorced her husband, an editor, after an affair that Mr. Hollande’s biographer, Serge Raffy, said began in 2005.

[Jimbo Gomez]

Royal didn't lose badly to Sarkozy, the election was rather close. She got 47% of the vote.