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Exit polling shows Sarkozy going down in the runoff against Hollande (which some French rightists have to be steamed about for reasons entirely separate from policy. Numbers showed that there were more people voting for the right than for the left in the first round of presidential elections. If all those rightists had showed up to the polls, Sarkozy would have won), and so now France enters an epoch that is a political reaction to Austerity, itself a political reaction to the 08 financial meltdown.

Second in Greece, where it seems to be a defeat for the mainstream and for austerity, as the mainstream Right party (New Democracy) and the mainstream left party (PASOK) between collected at most 37% of the seats, not enough to form a government. Important because the two mainstream parties were the ones in support of the bailout, while the other 63% of seats going to a panoply of parties that are not as friendly to the idea.

Sell your Euros now, boys



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