France is a marvelously paradoxical country, so the search for novelty, if not modernity, could lead to the reinvention of the Fourth Republic, a parliamentary regime characterized by its weaknesses and instability. That will depend in part on whether the perception of Sarkozy as a risky candidate will prove greater than the very real institutional risk represented by Bayrou.
法国如此惊人地矛盾，因此，即使不是追寻现代，而只是新颖，也可能导致重新建立第四共和国。第四共和国采用议会制度，其特征是软弱和不稳定。这将在某种程度上取决于萨尔科奇作为有风险的候选人的印象是否会大于由贝鲁所代表的机制性风险。