François Hollande has won

France goes Socialist.

Hollande’s win represents a groundshift in European politics; with a socialist president, France will become the only major European country moving to the left instead of to the right in response to the economic downturn. (Breitbart)

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Francois Holland seems to favor:

raise taxes (including a marginal tax rate for earnings above $1 million to 75%),

lower retirement age, and

boost spending levels

His winning platform?  One that Barack Obama would surely love to duplicate:

Hollande promised to hire more staff to boost France’s state education system and to reduce the retirement age from 62 to 60 for people who have completed a minimum 41 years of work.

He also pledged to raise taxes on the wealthy and balance the country's budget by 2017.

And while both the far right and Sarkozy adopted an anti-immigration stance during the campaign, the Socialist candidate stood by a promise to give foreigners the right to vote in local elections. (France24)

Look for Muslims to rapidly take over France. 

As always, Daniel Greenfield has his own unique take on the situation.  Here's an excerpt from his  "Niggas in Paris":

[snip]

That hasn't stopped the press from gushing over Hollande anyway as if there were anything to gush about, or prevented the release of "48 H AVEC FH," a viral campaign video that tries to marry Hollande's sheepish campaign route with rap bravado. Set to "Niggas in Paris" a rap song by Kanye West, French voters are treated to quick cuts of mainly African and Muslim voters showing their enthusiasm for Hollande while Jay Z and Kanye West make the usual boasts and threats transplanted to Paris that, in their own way, are every bit as tired and empty as Hollande.

Hollande hardly appears in "48 H AVEC FH" which is a smart decision. It's easier to sell him as a revolutionary candidate if you don't have to look at him or listen to him. It makes it easy to forget that, in this race, Marine Le Pen was the revolutionary candidate. Hollande isn't revolutionary, he's as much a figure of the reactionary left as Bo Xilai, the corrupt Chinese Communist leader and former Red Guard who tried to revive the Cultural Revolution with his Red Culture Movement. A clueless apparatchik of an old regime promising the old socialist virtues that no one can afford anymore.

"Niggas in Paris", a song inspired by Kanye West's trip to Paris, where he ...

[big snip]

Hollande, the likely beneficiary of the French public's dissatisfaction with Sarkozy, is a placeholder for the long fall of the republic into night. The Qataris are buying up France and the banlieues are swelling because of the malaise leading to the fall. They are the phlegm and sputum that show the presence of the illness, but the illness is there in the body of the nation. The short term debates over economic growth will define the election, but the long term future will be defined not by elections, and not even by demographics alone, but by the soul of a nation.

France, like the rest of Europe, like America, is falling into its own dark night and only a revival of its national values can save it.   (continue reading at Sultan Knish)

 

Obama invites Hollande to White House....  (via Drudge)

France gets new leader, Europe new direction

 

Comments

[The Watcher]

Which makes France our new bestest friend EVAR, apparently: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/05/that-didnt-take-long-obama-invites-french-socialist-hollande-to-white-house-this-month/