Richard Waghorne, Daily Mail
Flags of the French Communist Party were visible in numbers at Place de la Bastille on Sunday night, the symbolically-charged location of Socialist François Hollande’s victory rally.Mr Hollande is not a communist, but his election nonetheless foretells a sharp shift to the left in France and the deepening of Europe’s crisis of social democracy.There is a certain fashionable cynicism which holds that Mr Hollande will soon tack towards the comfort of the centre-ground and govern without undue reliance on campaign pledges that were both extreme and alarming.
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