France voted yesterday to replace the ineffectual Jacques Chirac with the somewhat more pragmatic Nicolas Sarkozy. France, with it's short work weeks, state-sponsored businesses, regulations against imports and restrictive labor laws has high unemployment among it's 18-25 year olds. With no job to get up and go to in the morning, these folks had all night to party.
And party they did. When their candidate, the hopelessly out-of-date socialist Segolene Royal went down to defeat, they celebrated in traditional young punk fashion.
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