Andy Borowitz: France Fails to Elect Hottest President Ever

Article image Millions of Frenchmen Furious
French voters missed a rendezvous with history on Sunday by failing to elect Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal, who was poised to become the nation’s hottest president ever.

France, which has long prided itself as a country that appreciates hot women above all else, had been expected to elect Ms Royal, who would have immediately earned her place in the pantheon of history’s most sizzling heads of state.

Additionally, many voters saw the election of Ms. Royal as an opportunity to expunge the memory of such notably unsexy recent French presidents as Francois Mitterand and Jacques Chirac.

But when the votes were tallied on Sunday and it became clear that Ms. Royal had gone down to defeat, millions of furious Frenchmen took to the streets to protest the rejection of the steamy socialist candidate.

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