Today is France’s second day with a new president in power: socialist François Hollande won a narrow victory with 51.5 percent. RNW asked young French Africans in Paris about their choices: did voters’ personal backgrounds play a role in choosing their country’s new president? It seems most Franco-Africans voted for the “less worse candidate.” “I [...]
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