"A mass vote, a clear choice and people’s getting interested in politics again". Jean-Dominique Durand, from Lyons University, comments with these words in a note on today’s Sir Europa (old.agensir.it) – Sarkozy’s victory. "For a long time, the Head of State had not been elected with such a wide majority", comments Durand, who thinks "the turnout (over 85% of voters) is remarkable in a country in which voting is not compulsory". "Democracy really is the big winner in the French elections", comments the expert: "After so many years of crisis, of votes for the extremist parties, of a refusal of Europe, of withdrawing onto themselves, this is extremely reassuring". "Passion and mass participation in the elections, the adhesion to the democratic nominees and the marginalisation of the extremists, a vote for clear political plans": this sums up the attitude of the French who elected a new president that "aptly represents France as it has turned out to be at these elections: a man who belongs to a new generation, the post-war generation, who comes from immigration, one who is representative of the French diversity, a right-wing man, without qualms, who has built a right-wing program and has managed to have a majority adhere to his program" (continued).
