| Author (Person) | Carnegy, Hugh |
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| Series Title | Financial Times |
| Series Details | 7.5.12 |
| Publication Date | 07/05/2012 |
| Content Type | News |
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François Hollande secured victory in the French presidential election on the 6 May 2012, defeating Nicolas Sarkozy, who became one of a succession of political leaders victim of an anti-incumbent backlash that had felled leaders across the eurozone since 2010 The 57-year-old Socialist leader, whose cheering supporters flooded on to the streets around the Bastille monument in Paris to celebrate the first presidential win for the left since 1988, said his election signalled a hope for Europe that 'austerity does not have to be inevitable'. |
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