François Hollande, the Socialist candidate, won France's presidential election, beating Nicolas Sarkozy, the centre-right incumbent, by 51.6% to 48.4%.
Desperate to secure the votes needed to defeat Nicolas Sarkozy, the center-right incumbent, the Socialists agreed last year not to field any candidates in around 60 constituencies.
Mr. Parvanov, the 44-year-old leader of the Socialist Party, defeated the center-right incumbent, Petar Stoyanov, in the presidential election on Sunday.
This year, he raised the stakes by standing as the centre-left Democratic party's candidate for Rome mayor against the centre-right incumbent, former neo-Fascist Gianni Alemanno.
In France, centre-right incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy was booted from the president's chair in favour of Socialist "Mr Normal" Francois Hollande.
This is true even in France, where a socialist victory in this week's presidential election bucked the rightist trend with the support of the far left, but with the collusion of a far right that refused to support the center-right incumbent.
Because rights ultimately proceed from God, Wollstonecraft maintains that there are duties, tied to those rights, incumbent upon each and every person.
Not since Ms. Kirkland has the role had so spiritually right an incumbent.
Is it right that incumbents alone should determine the fate of would-be new arrivals?
Last year the AU said it would promote its own continental human-rights court but incumbent leaders and their senior officials, it added, must be exempt.
Polls may place him neck-and-neck in the first round with Nicolas Sarkozy, the right-wing incumbent, but they consistently make him the favourite to win the run-off on May 6th, by between six and ten points.
