lola,
We - the decent French :-) - should admit that we are not given any choice in the elections (that is, we have no other option than pick among different varieties of socialism) because an overwhelming majority of citizens do not ask for anything else. Moreover, in the first round of the latest presidential elections, 1 out of 15 candidates could be described as a "classic" liberal : that's not too many, for sure, but we could try something else, actually... if only we would. 3,91% of us did it.