Hollande: Will he, won't he stand again?

It is 20:00 on the night of 7 May 2017, and the principal exit surveys have been encouraged through to moving TV news.

What's more, (the host lets us know), the following president of the Republic of France is - Francois Hollande.

Signal an exceptionally upbeat man walking around the Elysee gardens.

Obviously today it sounds absolutely impossible. France's head of state has given the word disagreeability a radical new importance, the nation is a strike-bound, unsettled chaos.
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