Hollannde wins sarkozy..

Paris (CNN) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy conceded to challenger Francois Hollande Sunday as results from exit polls and official tallies in the runoff election came in.

"I take the responsibility for this loss," Sarkozy said from his Paris campaign headquarters, as members of the crowd shouted, "No!"

"I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart," Sarkozy said.

With more than two-thirds of votes counted, Hollande was leading with 50.8% to Sarkozy's 49.2%, the nation's Interior Ministry said.

Exit polls said Hollande won 51.9% of the vote, France 2 television reported.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/06/world/europe/france-election/index.html

source please?

A friend in France told me too but the last time I checked(12 minutes ago) he was just leading with 52% votes while Sarkozy had 47% of the votes

Its true. Now live on CNN

One of the three musketeers is gone. Obama and Cameron beware

Wow!!! This French people can be unforgiving. They eventually make sarkozy paid. Nigerian politicians hope you are learning?

Now he can go and give more attention to the young child and mother.

why wont sarkozy lose. He broke most of his promises to the french people. i sure say ghadaffi spirit dey hunt am after he collected $70 million dollars from him to sponsor his first term in office.

François Hollande swept to victory on Sunday, becoming the first Socialist to become president of France since François Mitterrand left office in 1995.

Mr. Hollande campaigned on a kinder, gentler, more inclusive France, but his victory over Nicolas Sarkozy will also be seen as a challenge to the German-dominated policy of economic austerity in the euro zone, which is suffering from recession and record unemployment.

French voters may not like belt-tightening, but both Mr. Hollande and Mr. Sarkozy had promised to balance the budget in the next five years. The vote was viewed domestically as a rejection of the unpopular Mr. Sarkozy himself and his relentless effort to appeal to the voters of the far right National Front. Mr. Sarkozy is the first incumbent president to lose since 1981.

With about half the vote counted, preliminary results released by the Interior Ministry shortly after the last polling stations closed at 8 p.m. showed Mr. Hollande had secured about 51 percent of the vote while Mr. Sarkozy, of the center-right Union for a Popular Movement, won about 49 percent. Opinion pollsters suggested that the final result would be closer to 52 percent versus 48 percent.

“The French did not want to elect a president who is powerless: it must be given a majority, otherwise it would be absurd,” said Pierre Moscovici, Mr. Hollande’s campaign director. He called on voters to “amplify this victory” in legislative elections next month.

Mr. Sarkozy conceded defeat minutes after the polls closed, and said that he accepted “total responsibility” for Sunday’s result.

He told voters that he had called Mr. Hollande to wish him “good luck,” and thanked “the millions of French who voted for me.”

“My involvement in the life of my country will be different now,” Mr. Sarkozy said. “But time will never weaken the ties between us.”

Speaking to party members, Mr. Sarkozy, who campaigned energetically to the end, told them to “remain united” and not give in to division. He said he would not lead the party into June’s legislative elections, he said but “they are winnable.”

Mr. Sarkozy said: “I become a citizen among you.”

With anxieties rising again over the fate of the single currency, the election in France — as well as a snap parliamentary election in Greece on Sunday — was closely watched in European capitals and particularly in Berlin, where Chancellor Angela Merkel has led the drive to cure the euro zone debt and banking crisis with deep budget cuts and caps on future spending.

Such policies have come at a heavy political price for many of Europe’s leaders, whose opponents, emboldened by waves of voter resentment, have vowed to challenge the German push for deficit and debt reduction in favor of measures to stimulate economic growth.

Dressed in a dark suit and accompanied by his partner, the journalist Valérie Trierweiler, Mr. Hollande, 57, cast his vote Sunday morning in Tulle, the capital of his Corrèze constituency. Conceding that he had slept “only briefly” overnight, Mr. Hollande, told reporters he was bracing for a long day.

“It’s up to the French people to decide if it’s going to be a good day,” he said.

Under gray skies and amid intermittent rain showers, Nicole Hirsch, a 60-year-old retiree in the working-class 20th Arrondissement of Paris, said she was voting for Mr. Hollande in the hope that he would “bring the change that France needs.”

Opinion polls published on Friday, the last day of campaigning, showed the gap between Mr. Sarkozy and Mr. Hollande had narrowed to between four and five percentage points. And Mr. Sarkozy had remained confident, predicting that the election would be decided by “a razor’s edge,” and spoke of a possible “surprise.”

But his campaign suffered double setbacks last week.

On Tuesday, Marine Le Pen — the candidate of the populist National Front who garnered 18 percent of the first-round vote — refused to endorse either the president or Mr. Hollande, saying she would cast a blank ballot. Then, on Friday, François Bayrou, a centrist who finished in fifth with 9 percent of the vote, endorsed Mr. Hollande.

Analysts have said Mr. Sarkozy will need the votes of an overwhelming majority of Ms. Le Pen’s supporters to win. But the latest surveys show the president getting little more than 50 percent of the National Front vote.

Mr. Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, cast their votes shortly before midday at a high school in the staid 16th Arrondissement of Paris. The couple left without speaking to the media.

Juan Carlos Velaure, a 57-year-old lawyer, said he voted for Mr. Hollande because he was fed up with Mr. Sarkozy’s governing style and his conception of the presidency. “He ruled over everyone,” Mr. Velaure said.

He remained unsure, however, whether Mr. Hollande would be up to the task of guiding France and Europe through the economic crisis.

“I don’t know if Hollande will help, but he is changing minds in Europe” about the need to stimulate growth along with achieving fiscal discipline, he said. “The future of France is uncertain. I couldn’t say if feel optimistic or pessimistic at this moment. We will have to see what the future holds.”

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/world/europe/hollande-and-sarkozy-in-crucial-runoff-in-france.html?_r=1&hp

Rich Dad: Wow!!! This French people can be unforgiving. They eventually make sarkozy paid. Nigerian politicians hope you are learning?

Strauss-Kahn will definitely be pleased with the results.
He taught he could arm-twist french voters into supporting him.

Sarkosy should just head to the 'Hague' tomorrow and hand himself in for war crimes.

My enemy's enemy is my friend. Congrats Francois Hollande Only God reigns forever!!!!!


Nd btw, when are we going to start having elections in Nigeria

This sarkozy is a son of b1tch, he had killed alot of people in libya, he will go directly to hell.

If it is in Nigeria, he will be on is way to appeal court. Our politicians need to really learn to concede defeat.

highland: If it is in Nigeria, he will be on is way to appeal court. Our politicians need to really learn to concede defeat.

If you lose in a free and fair election, there is no point going to court. In Nigeria especially at the presidential level, elections have been anything but free and fair

Hmm...lookin forward to d day naija 'politivians' wud concede to an electn defeat peacefully...jonatan, se u re ready to do so incase u re contestin for d presidential seat come 2015? Ehn-ehn...nt dt u shud b ranting on hw u were left wiv no shoes afta vacatin aso rock nd u cudnt even inhale 'fresh air' any longer...

Good riddance to the short bastard. Next to go is the White House nigger . Then the fool in UK after which Nemesis can have some rest. Idiots.

☀Goodbye Mr. Bean

Who's next?

"The nation follows its course," "The nation is stronger than the destiny of the men who serve it.

N. Sarkozy

Sarkozy should go to the Election Petition Tribunal or ask for a vote recount.I think some ballot boxes were stolen in some suburbs of Paris and Marseille and some thugs of the People's D......What country are we talking about again?

thats what is called matured politics......nt what we practice in nigeria

arkosy is a bad man. He did bad thing in Africa. I hope the Hollande top the neo-colonialism in the Francophone countries. But France needs Africa more than Africa needs France.

And Gods prophet(TB JOSHUA)said it this morning in church service.God is really with him,hear and believe.

changing of pattern.

Ekans: And Gods prophet(TB JOSHUA)said it this morning in church service.God is really with him,hear and believe.

That man is a fake prophet, if to say sarkozy wins, the crazy supporters of that prophet will be saying the man said that sarkozy will win.

felifeli: Good riddance to the short bastard. Next to go is the White House nigger . Then the fool in UK after which Nemesis can have some rest. Idiots.

Nemesis can get no rest until it finds its way to Nija

How does this improve our electricity?

can a sitting pdp president loose election in nigeria even in the presence of boko haram and other odds.

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Two different people from two different walks of life. Sarkozy was, as a president, very political. I guess you could fault him (Sarkozy) for being covertly smart and arrongant - that sort of cost him his presidency. Hollande, on the other hand, seems very socialist indeed. He SEEMS like someone whose interests are aligned with the French people's interests. He has inherited a lot of responsibilities but only time will tell if he weathers the storm. Until then, congratulations Mr. Hollande. That was a well-deserved political victory.

1025: can a sitting pdp president loose election in nigeria even in the presence of boko haram and other odds.

Capital NO.

Thanks to the people of france One of the murderers of col Muhammed Gaddafi is gone remaining two(cameron who his party lost at local elections) and silent war killer advocate Barak Obama.