After electing their new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, France began to immediately regret their own decision. Sarkozymay have won the presidency, but he hasn't won over the many French who consider him and his free-market reforms and tough line on crime and immigration frighteningly brutal. Or in other words just moments after electing a non-socialist President the French decided that they had made another gigantic mistake.

Amidst the civil unrest on Saturday night another riot plunged into the street destroying some 730 cars and leading to 592 arrests, police said. Then again onMonday night, several hundred people massed at the Place de la Bastille in Paris, breaking windows in nearby shops and starting street fires. Riot officers dispersed them, and about 100 people were detained, police said Tuesday. One police officer was lightly injured and eight cars and two scooters were torched, according to the Paris police headquarters. Police officials said the perpetrators appeared to be anarchists and far leftists.

In yet another location in western France, hundreds gathered again Monday night, with a few dozen hurling beer bottles and other projectiles at police. Police responded with tear gas and arrested several people. Public buildings were also damaged and minor incidents were also reported in Toulouse in southern France.

The deposed socialist regime called for a ceasing of violence sometime late Tuesday, after all the rioting had been stopped by police. "To all those who can hear me, I ask them to immediately stop all this behavior," Socialist Party chief Francois Hollande said. “Unless you haven’t been given the chance to express your dissatisfaction with the current election, in which case we encourage you to let you opinions be know by destroying someone else’s possessions and costing a financially crippled government even more money to replace what you have destroyed.”

Many demands face the new President Sarkozy, who was handed a mandate for reforms that include tax cuts and new labor rules making it easier to hire and fire to revive the sluggish economy
He faces a steep challenge in carrying this out in a country that cherishes its generous social safety net. Early reports are that Sarkozy has considered resigning the office so he doesn’t have to deal with the French.