OT: Cool! France is on its way to its first female president!

[europegirl4jfk]

Ségolène Royal won the Socialists' primaries with over 60% of the votes! She now has to win against the right-wing candidate next spring. Let's hope that the French people are ready to elect a woman. The Right has screwed up the country badly under Chirac and it's really time for a change.


From AP:

Royal wins French Socialists' nomination

PARIS - Segolene Royal got a running start Thursday to her campaign to become France's first female president, decisively beating two rivals to wrap up the nomination for the main opposition Socialist Party in a single round of voting.

The win, which party officials announced with about 40 percent of votes counted, spared Royal a second round against her two rivals from the party's old guard — Former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and former Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

It also meant she can head into the April vote claiming the oft-divided opposition party is fully behind her

more at this link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/ap_on_re_eu/france_socialists

[JI7]

1. most Americans who visit France say the people there aren't happy

with the current Chirac Govt.

i hope the socialists win.