Sarkozy Appears Defeated

 French Socialist Francois Hollande appeared headed to victory over President Nicolas Sarkozy, according to exit polls of voters released by Swiss and Belgian news media.

Those polls showed Hollande with 52 to 53 percent of the vote in an election that turned on solutions for Europe's economic crisis amid record unemployment in France.


If his victory is confirmed by the final results, Hollande will be the first leftist president since Francois Mitterrand left office in 1995, and Sarkozy will be the first president not to be granted a second term since 1981. Hollande's term in office begins May 16.


Results in Greece, where voters were selecting new members of parliament on Sunday, also pointed to an upheaval for that country's current leaders. Early polls suggested the country's two leading parties would, together, receive less than 30 percent of the ballots cast _ throwing into question who would form the next government.

The French and the Greeks are throwing out those that took marching orders from the banksters, but, OMG, what have they replaced them with? It appears with even more vicious-type central planners.

UPDATE: Sarkozy  concedes defeat.