Can Nicolas Sarkozy reform France?

"By carrying Nicolas Sarkozy to the Elysée, the French have knowingly made a powerful choice for a profound change in France", considers the editorialist François-Xavier Pietri. "The choice of Nicolas Sarkozy, the man who people tried to cloak in dubious doubts that have just been brushed away by one fell swoop from French voters, is full of meaning. For, if there is one thing we can say about the candidate, it is that he has set the tone: that of a disinhibited, modern right, rid of the paralysing fear of voters or the street, that muffled fear that, little by little, caught Jacques Chirac up in a net woven with both stubborn stasis and fickleness. ... Let's boldly pronounce that word: rupture, it is a project of rupture. And it is this rupture that voters clearly chose yesterday and that now remains to be put in motion."

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