French candidate Ségolène Royal was given a warm welcome. A military band played both national anthems and a huge banquet was given in her honour.
" Our peoples have much in common", according to Mrs. Royal, " We both eat frogs".
Mrs. Royal and her host enjoyed their meal and the atmosphere was friendly, until Mrs. Royal brought up the issue of human rights, which she had promissed to adress.
Our reporter provided the following excerpt of the conversation.

SR:" I promissed the home front to discuss a certain... issue."
AP:" The quotum on frog legs? I think it's unfair that you limit your imports, for you simply don't have enough frogs and besides, our frogs are so much better than Western frogs. The French consumer deserves to taste them."
SR:" Well, actually... I was talking about human rights..."
AP:" Yes, yes, me too. It's a human right to have acces to quality frog legs."
SR:" No, I mean certain political activists who were killed."
AP:" Oh? Why?"
SR:" You tell me."
AP:" I don't want to insult my guests Mrs. Royal. Let's not mention it. We don't have any problem with your background."
SR:" I beg your pardon?"
AP:" Your brother kills political activists, doesn't he?"
SR:" How rude!"
AP:" You wanted to discuss this!"
SR:" I meant the human rights over here."
AP:" What? I thought it happened in New Zealand."
SR:" You know what I am talking about."
AP:" Yes, of course, but I never knew that your brother was active in this country. I thought he wasn't allowed to leave France."
SR:" I am not talking about my brother, merde! This is about your governments attitude towards human rights."
AP:" Ah, us and human rights. We're OK, thank you. More and more people can afford frog legs nowadays. Human rights are very good in our country. Just twenty years ago we had famines, now we're all going to be very rich soon."