Turnout could be 87 percent!
[Le Monde] Selon les estimations des instituts de sondage Ipsos et IFOP, la participation pourrait atteindre 87% au 1er tour de la présidentielle, soit son niveau le plus élevé sous la Ve République (AFP)
While results come, nice photo slideshow from Yahoo news.
Media election sites: France 2; Le Monde.
Interesting choice of backdrop for the Sarko victory speech -- a countryside, all green image. No cities there.
On the extreme left, a dreadful result for the Communist Party of France -- under 2%, and less than half of what one of the three Trotskyites, Olivier Besancenot, got.
With the chance now to compare the speeches of the top 2, Sarko's is much better; Sego's speech is earnest but wooden.
The overall sense at this point is a massive migration from the fringe to the center: note that the top 3 positions this time around each increased their share by around 10 percentage points relative to 2002.
One of Sego's applause lines: an emphasis that there will be a new referendum on the EU Constitution, unlike Sarko's proposal of a mini-treaty.
FINAL UPDATE: At least one person in the world thinks our relevant contribution to an Atrios comment thread was funny.
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