Royal shadows Chirac

Socialist candidate Segolene Royal made a presidential flourish tonight when, immediately following President Jacques Chirac's address to the nation, she released her own message by video on the internet. In the several minute clip, she told viewers that

"I want a new Republic which is at the service of the citizens, and is built with the people, and the life such as it is...There remains four months to build all that (yet) I have confidence because I believe in the collective intelligence of the French who want that which moves, that which changes, which is full of energy. I also have am full of energy and we together are going to build tomorrow."

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