Europe's Left and World's Press Hail French Revolution
Europe's center-left parties and the media on Friday hailed as a "revolution" the choice by French socialists of Segolene Royal as their party's candidate for the April 2007 presidential election. They highlighted her breakthrough as the first woman candidate for the top job in France and welcomed her "modern" and "dynamic" approach to politics, seen as a welcome, if overtly populist, break with the past. "A new page in French history has been opened," said the leader of the Party of European Socialists (PES), which brings together socialist and social-democratic parties from across the continent.
La Stampa pointed out that Royal had appealed in particular to young French Socialists. "The Internet generation ... have got rid of 'the elephants', the faded nobility. It's a revolution."
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