You've got to love the French sometimes. Every year of presidential elections, motorists start parking anywhere (more chaotically than usual(!)), because traditionally (starting 1965), a newly elected president gives amnesty for parking tickets and other minor traffic infractions. True to tradition, Jaques Chirac offered this amnesty last week...
[Links: The city of Lyon saw the amnesty coming... :: More backgound information on the presidential amnesties]
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